Every year is the last year of something someone has fond memories of. It seems that 2015 has been a particularly rough year for technology, as there’s been a pretty high rate of loss, closing down, and elimination of various loved and not loved services. From the map service that predates Google to some spectacularly popular music services, lots of things have been removed from service, or are going to be removed from service. Here’s a list of tech products that disappeared in 2015.
A lot of these services I had no idea still existed. Betamax, for example, was a surprise. Others were surprises because they seemed pretty popular, like Rdio or Beats Music. Not that I know anyone who used Beats Music, but I’m sure people did, and while the brand itself is going to live on in headphone form, the streaming services are drying up. I guess that’s all part of industry consolidation, or just the fact that people are settled into their streaming services of choice, but still, someone’s going to be disappointed by that.
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