2016 was a year when stars like David Bowie, Prince and Carrie Fisher left us far too early. But it was not only celebrities that disappeared, but also in the technology world, several stars had fallen by the pe.
Pebble
After having been with and started smartklockeboomen 2013 managed the Pebble never really live up to all the hype. For just as with all manufacturers of smart watches, in addition to Apple, three Pebble quickly in sales.
In december bought the Fitbit up Pebbles intellectual capital and took the dead on the production.
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Samsung galaxy note 7
One of the really big snackisarna in the world of technology 2016 was Samsung’s fiaskotelefon Galaxy Note 7 shortly after launch completely withdrawn, then the phone spontaneously could start to burn.
But the fiasco did not end there, for when the decision on revocation has been given, there were many who did not submit their phones, which forced Samsung to produce updates in a safe way made the phone unusable. A humiliating end to an equally degrading saga.
Phones from Blackberry
If you see a Blackberry phone in the future is the most likely not made by Blackberry.
in september, the former proud phone manufacturer out with that you would stop taking up new hardware and instead put all the focus on the software.
However, the decision was not the end for phones with the Blackberry brand, has secured to itself, for the company will license out the name to third party manufacturers.
Vine
Twitter’s video service Vine announced in October, to a few entusiasters great chagrin, that one would lay down their operations.
However, rumors began to quickly flourish if that the Vine would reappear, but how it will be with the resurrection remains to be seen.
Sunrise Calender
the coup de grace for the popular kalenderappen Sunrise came already in 2015, when Microsoft bought the rights to it.
Microsoft had no intentions of working further with the Sunrise, but chose istälelt to implement some of the features from the app to their own calendar in Outlook.
and Although it looks in Outlook now a little more like Sunrise, but it is a small consolation for all the Sunrisefans.
Facebook Paper
Facebook’s attempt to make a pure news service got a lot of praise from some users who felt that it was far better than Facebook’s huvudapp to deliver nyhetslänkar.
But the service never found home to the large mass of users and was put in years down. The heritage of Facebook Paper still, however, remain, since much of the technology of the service is the basis for Facebook’s new service of Instant articles.
Google’s Nexus phones
Recently, Google released its high-end phone Pixel, which has received many android users are lyrical. But Pixel chose Google even to completely close down its production of the much cheaper Nexus phone.
According to Google, the Nexus brand is now completely dead and will never return, but the company still provides technical support on the phone.
Firefox OS
2015 took Mozilla’s decision to put its operating system Firefox OS for smartmobiler.
the Operating system had to live on for a short while on web-based system for smart tvs, routers and tablets, but in november, Mozilla is out with closing down the project altogether.
Intel Atom to smartmobiler
2016 was the year when Intel realized that it missed the boat when it comes to smartmobiler and that the company would never be able to catch up with their competitors.
that is Why we chose to completely put down the work with Atomchippet to the phones and chose instead to invest all our efforts on chipp to the other connected objects – like drone and ar headsets.
Apple Thunderbolt Display
In June, Apple announced that it will lay down its manufacture of skärmserien Thunderbolt Display which has been running since 2011.
According to the site Extremetech, the decision is very attention-grabbing as this is the first time since the 80s, as Apple does not sell any own screens.
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Project Ara
Google’s plans for a modular smartphone, in which the user could easily switch out components, probably was from the beginning a wild gamble. But one had developed the technology that it wanted to could Project Ara made it easier for consumers to create their drömtelefon.
Unfortunately, so did the gamble home and Google chose this year to put down the project.
Microsoft Band
Microsoft’s fitnessarmband was from the beginning to a promising start with its colourful touchdisplay, but the product held back by poor software and lousy support for applications.
Therefore it was not surprising that Microsoft went out with that you would not make a third model in the series.
Picasa
It is quite remarkable that bildredigeringprogrammet Picasa lasted as long as it did. The program, already launched in 2002 and was bought two years later by Google, which only a few years after it stopped releasing updates to the program.
Thus came it 2013 several rumors that Picasa would be replaced with the Google+ Photos app, but it never happened, and Picasa had to live on until 2016 when the blade finally fell.
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