Tech that Died in 2024

hey you made it to the end of 2024 congrats I can't say the same for a lot of Gadgets in our lives because Tech changes fast products come and go and this is my annual video where I go over the tech products that failed flopped and lost funding this year some of it is a little sad but some things you will be glad to see gone hey did you know that you outlasted this and this and this fella yeah I'm proud of you I'm Bridget Cary and it's time to say goodbye to the Tech that

died in 2024 fossil smart watches are now Smartwatch fossils The Watch Company fossil is no longer making SmartWatches the last Model was the Gen 6 that ran wear OS and if you say well that's because Apple has the best smartw don't hold your breath because Apple can't track your breath anymore this year Apple discontinued selling watches that use the blood oxygen sensor because Apple lost that patent dispute and was ordered to remove the feature that's not the only Apple product to die Apple pay later became Apple pay right away the buy now pay later service

was shut down less than a year after it launched Apple also put an end to iTunes yes iTunes still exists for Windows 10 and 11 but to get people to move on Apple made sure that the apps it has in the Microsoft store could handle syncing media between Windows PCS and iPhones that includes the windows version of Apple music the TV app and devices app if losing iTunes makes you sad well Apple certainly does not care about your need to rip your old music CDs because Apple also discontinued it's USB super drive but who needs

something to read CDs and DVDs anymore Best Buy stop selling physical movie discs this year and Redbox a company that began 20 years ago announced it was shutting down 24,000 of its kiosks when it filed for bankruptcy and since I'm already breaking the hearts of '90s kids here's another relic of the the '90s that's now gone instant messaging service icq shut down after 27 years so the age of instant messaging is officially dead Google wouldn't be Google if it didn't shut down a bunch of side apps that you didn't know about so I'll just list

them and let's see how many you used Google pay in the US ended in June to move everyone to Google Wallet Google podcast discontinued to move everyone to YouTube music Google discontinu the stack PDF scanner app to get everyone to just use gole gole Drive which does the same thing Google one VPN ended and it didn't move everyone to something else because no one was using it Google Jam board shuts down at the end of December it's a digital Whiteboard app for Google workspace but it also was an actual 55 in whiteboard connected to the

cloud that cost $5,000 plus a $600 a year annual support fee for a whiteboard yeah I wonder why it died and probably the most notable Google stopped making the chomecast app after 11 years which was a hit because of how cheap it was to stream content to a TV to replace the chomecast Google began selling a $100 device called the Google TV streamer which also streams video but by calling it a new product that can now charge you more to put YouTube videos on your television now some things died quickly and it's a relief they

did meta shut down the celebrity lookalike AI chatbots they had the face of a celebrity but they went by different names yes please please kill it with fire Snapchat can't seem to ever get its Hardware to take off it launched a flying camera called the pixie drone and then recalled all of them for overheating batteries Spotify also crashed out in the hardware game it shut down the accessory called car thing which was a thing that stream music in your car it was $100 now that thing is just E-Waste all units don't work and you have

until January 14th to request a refund lot of tech dies when it loses use fness and that applies to a well-known robot that retired this year Boston Dynamics said farewell to its hydraulic Atlas humanoid robot as it back flips its way to Oblivion it caused us so much Collective discomfort to see what moves they could get this robot to do and now they made a video of all the ways that also awkwardly rolled to the ground Atlas has been jumping and lifting and doing this stuff for 11 years in development but no time to mourn

because the company is working on another more frightening humanoid product to take its place this time fully electric the journey to replace humans with robots is never easy and once such robot has lost funding Moxy the robot is a cartoon faced AI chatbot it's designed to serve as a close friend to a kid it's a developmental toy for young kids to talk to they could play games and learn it was very ambitious and very expensive it was first announced in 2020 and it cost $800 Moxy cannot perform core functionality without connecting to the cloud servers

and those Cloud servers cost money there's no more funding owners were abruptly notified that the robot would just stop working because of funding issues but as of the time I am recording this video the company says it is trying to explore options to keep it operational as long as possible and a lot of people online are really upset there are videos of kids who are bracing for their robot buddy to die any day now it is legitimately here's hoping for those kids that Moxy finds a new life in 2025 and if there's another tech product

that disappeared this year that I did not include pay your respects in the comments and I'll see you all in the new year