It’s no secret that 2020 has not been a great year, and we’ve had to say goodbye to many of our favorite things and activities. It’s also been a year where we’ve had to say goodbye to some of our favorite technologies.
Technology That Died in 2020
We’ve rounded up some of the biggest tech losses of 2020, to bid a fond farewell. Experts say their exits don’t necessarily mean they were failures, but rather a product of an evolving market they could no longer serve.
“They're never really going to die — there will always be people who care about them, but it's a decision of the masses,” Carter Dotson, account manager at Stride PR, told Lifewire in a phone interview.
Perhaps the most tragic tech story of 2020 is Quibi, the short-form streaming service app that both debuted and died in 2020. After just six months in business, Quibi went bankrupt, partly because of an already crowded field, but also because it failed to execute on its big ideas.
