Died in 2019

14 projects

Wii Shop Channel Nintendo's first online store, the Virtual Console and WiiWare behind an elevator-music jingle, closed after twelve years 2006–2019 Game Platforms & Services HipChat The team chat that was there before Slack, bought by Atlassian, renamed Stride, and then sold to Slack to be switched off 2010–2019 Messengers PlayStation Vita The best handheld nobody supported 2011–2019 Consoles & Handhelds Google Allo Google's WhatsApp that wasn't 2016–2019 Messengers Google+ The social network everyone was signed up to and nobody used 2011–2019 Social Networks Inbox by Gmail The better Gmail that Gmail ate 2014–2019 Email & Groups Inbox by Gmail Google's attempt to replace its own mail app, loved by the people who used it and closed after four and a half years 2014–2019 Email & Groups YouTube Gaming YouTube's Twitch rival, a separate app and site for game video, merged back into YouTube after four years 2015–2019 Video & Streaming BlackBerry Messenger BBM: PINs, the D and the R, the messenger that made the BlackBerry, licensed to an Indonesian company and closed in 2019 2005–2019 Messengers Ouya The $99 console Kickstarter wanted to exist 2013–2019 Consoles & Handhelds Amazon Dash Button A $4.99 button that ordered detergent, launched on the eve of April Fools' Day 2015–2019 Gadgets & Hardware Google Daydream Google's soft-fabric VR headset for Pixels, dropped after three years 2016–2019 VR & AR Google Fusion Tables The free tool that let journalists and researchers turn a spreadsheet into a map, retired by Google in 2019 with no direct replacement 2009–2019 Web Technologies & Tools Windows Phone The tiles nobody wrote apps for 2010–2019 Operating Systems