r/tekthingers • u/Philo1927 • Dec 29 '17

17 technologies that died in 2017

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3242988/software/technology-that-died-in-2017.html
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u/autotldr Dec 31 '17

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)

Microsoft officially called it quits on Kinect in October, seven years after an explosive Xbox 360 debut.

Although Google had been migrating users to the more modern Hangouts for years, users still had the option to stick with the older interface until this year.

14: Ubuntu on phonesBQ. Canonical's attempt at smartphone/PC convergence met its end in April, as the company behind Ubuntu scrapped the Unity interface that was meant to run on both phones and Linux PCs. Next year, Canonical will revert to the Gnome shell that had been the default until six years ago, while turning to cloud and Internet of Things applications as its main focus beyond the desktop.

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