Intro
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
Fossil
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
Apple
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
Redbox
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
Google
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
Hardware
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
Moxy
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
Tech that Died in 2024
