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6 Apr 2022


THE TECH THAT DIED IN 2021 – PC WORLD NEW ZEALAND

by Michael Murray | posted in: web site promotion internet marketing | 0

Another year has passed, and a wide number of gadgets, services, and wild tech
experiments have passed on, too. Here's what left us in 2021.
Ian Paul (PC World (US online)) on 31 December, 2021 22:45
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We’ve come again to the end of another year, and another twelve months of some
pretty impressive tech. We saw Apple release the M1 Pro and M1 Max processors.
Phison released a new PCIe controller enabling ridiculously fast SSDs like the
Corsair MP600 Pro XT, and Intel finally struck back against AMD’s surging Ryzen
processors.
But amid all the highlights, 2021 also gave us some sad goodbyes. Some were
storied products beloved by many, while others were failed experiments, or items
that we barely knew were there.
Here’s our look at The Tech We Lost, 2021 Edition.
Google
When it comes to ruthlessly cutting excess products no company can match Google.
There weren’t any big surprises this year, but Google did snuff out a few
things. The company dumped text message forwarding for Google Voice, though this
one was more the fault of the carriers than Google, as they started blocking
messages from being forwarded. The Google Home Max was retired in late 2020 (aka
almost 2021), and Plex, a mobile-first bank account experiment with Citibank
that was announced but never launched, was killed off in October 2021.
Google Loon, the company’s Internet balloons project that was spun off in 2018,
sailed off into the horizon never to return. Google Shopping mobile apps
surrendered the field, and Feedburner, Google’s RSS management service, went
into maintenance mode with services like email subscriptions and advanced
analytics discontinued. You can still use Feedburner for now, but who knows how
long that will last?
Android Auto no longer works on newer phones as it’s been replaced by Google
Assistant’s Driving Mode. Google Play Movies and TV took a final bow in favor of
YouTube, and Google stopped selling Cardboard hardware–to be honest this project
was always something of a daydream.
Google FLoC, the company’s most controversial experiment in ages, also had a
short-lived life. While not officially dead, Google FLoC as it was originally
conceived won’t be coming back. Instead, as a result of public feedback, Google
plans to redesign the non-tracking user-tracking program.
There were far more Google deaths in 2021 than we could ever summarize here, but
if you want to see more things that suffered at the hands of the big G, check
out the Killed By Google website.
In 2021, Microsoft decided that using its Android apps on Chromebooks just
wasn’t a good idea anymore. The company has now shunted Chromebook users to
Office’s web apps, saying they offer a more laptop-optimized experience than the
Android apps.
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Turning your laptop into a gaming powerhouse is surprisingly easy with an
external GPU. Dell was one of the first companies to leap into these DIY gaming
set-ups with its eGPU dock, the Alienware Graphics Amplifier—but in 2021, that
experiment came to an end. The Verge was the first to spot this when it noticed
Dell’s proprietary port that the Graphics Amplifier requires was missing from
newer laptops. Now that hooking external GPUs into laptops via Thunderbolt is
much more common, this death wasn’t really surprising, but pour one out for a
pioneer.
For a brief period, Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to create a
stripped-down version of Windows called Windows 10X for dual-screen devices
(namely the Surface Neo, a double-display folding tablet). Then 10X was moved to
an OS for single-screen devices and seen as a potential replacement for Windows
10 in S Mode. But no more. Windows 10X lost its individuality and was
assimilated back into the Windows collective, seemingly serving as a foundation
for Windows 11’s design. (That probably explains why the Windows 11 taskbar is
such a mess.)
Not to be left out of the death party, Twitter killed one of its products in
2021. Periscope shut down in March 2021. Acquired by Twitter in 2015 in response
to the upstart Meerkat, Periscope was an app that let you stream your life live
on Twitter. Despite popular early adoption it’s been pretty much invisible for
years, with Twitter Live being the company’s preferred option. In 2021, Twitter
Live’s dominance was made official and Periscope faded into oblivion.
Hayden Dingman/IDG
The last Oculus headset that had to be tethered to a PC went away this year. The
Oculus Rift S disappeared from the proto-metaverse, leaving behind its
untethered cousins who offer a more consistent experience, like the Oculus Quest
2 with its 2K/90Hz displays. The Rift S will continue to be supported for a few
more years, so if you already have one you should still get some use out of it
before it’s just another paperweight.
Intel said goodbye in 2021 to its ridiculously fast Optane drives that use
standard PCIe ports. It’s a bit of a loss for PC enthusiasts, but with
second-generation PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD blowing our minds it’s not the hugest loss
in the world.
Microsoft
It was a beautiful idea: Bring Minecraft into the real world, similar to those
early demos of Hololens, but with your phone instead of a headset. The idea
never really caught on thanks in no small part to the pandemic preventing people
moving about the world, and so Minecraft Earth headed for the sunset in 2021.
LG decided it wasn’t worth playing the mobile game anymore and discontinued its
line of Android phones in 2021. LG made a few nice models over the years, but
the company felt its time was better spent elsewhere such as the smart home,
robotics, AI, and electric vehicle components.
Apple said in March that it would give up on the full-sized Apple HomePod for
its smart home ambitions, focusing on the more affordable HomePod Mini instead.
The company also bid adieu to the iMac Pro that same month, and many expected an
M1-based all-in-one computer to take its place. While we’ve seen a 24-inch M1
iMac there hasn’t been anything higher powered yet, though rumor has it an M1
iMac Pro will make an appearance in 2022.
Logitech
A few other pieces of tech caught our notice heading their way to the graveyard
of oblivion in 2021. Logitech gave up on its Harmony Remote, Yahoo Answers died,
and the PlayStation Store stopped selling movies and TV shows. Also, Amazon
Pantry went stale, moving everything over to Amazon Fresh, and the first two
Kindles that relied on Edge networks to get their content lost support.
A few companies also offered previews of items that will be cast into the great
unknown in the coming years. Microsoft said Windows 10 will go off to live on a
very nice farm in 2025. Verizon and ATT are set to give up on 3G networks in
2022, and 2022 will also be the end for Internet Explorer, a web browser that
has been both a blessing and a curse to the World Wide Web.
Pour one out for all our deceased gadgets and services that left us in 2021. And
here’s to 2022, when no doubt we’ll say a big goodbye to more of the tech we
loved.
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