Zoom in and tap anywhere on the globe to see what was happening in real time - it was amazing and frankly, it's something I think would be great now to offer people a better perspective of life on this blue planet because the world is more than just what shows up in your little social media feed. Not every bit of tech that died this year was world-changing; I mean some stuff just made a quick exit.

Apple killed off the HomePod speaker when it finally figured out that people just aren't that into large overpriced series speakers, and that's a good thing because it got Apple to lean more into a more common sense version - the HomePod mini. It's so colorful now.

This year also marked the end of the MacBook Pro Touch Bar. The revamped MacBook Pro laptop brings back function keys and MagSafe, and just all the ports your little heart desires. I'm sorry, Harry Potter fans; but The Boy Who Lived is dead on Mobile - Niantic's AR game, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, that's shutting down. It's going to end operations in January. This game was similar to Pokémon Go but wasn't as popular; so Niantic put a little "vanishing spell" on it.

This year was extra odd in that some companies tried killing off their old identities - Google killed Google Play Music to push everyone into YouTube Music, CBS All Access streaming service rebranded itself to Paramount+, Square became Block, completely run now by a bunch of blockheads. Apparently.

But of course, the biggest change was Facebook calling its overarching company Meta and then changing Oculus Quest to MetaQuest; even though ads all over the place still call it Oculus Quest. It's messy, but honestly, you don't have to worry about what to call it because frankly, everyone is still going to call it Facebook.

I mean how many folks do you know called Google Alphabet? No one; not a single person. While I was compiling this list, there was one particular product - software that I found to be just barely hanging on to life and that is Cortana, the Microsoft voice assistant. She was always cooler to me than Siri when she launched on Windows Phone in 2014, and part of that is because she was also named after an AI computer assistant character from the Halo video game, and it had the same voice.

Her existence is being erased in 2021 - Microsoft shut down the Cortana apps for iOS and Android. She never was as popular as the other assistants; but she was on one smart speaker and one smart thermostat, and both were not popular products. Cortana's support on the Harmon card on Invoke speaker has been removed in 2021, and cortana voice command stopped working on the Glass Thermostat as of 2019.

Microsoft's Xbox doesn't even use Cortana; uses Alexa but Cortana still is around inside Windows computers and it can be used to join meetings or make calls and send messages and other Microsoft Office products. So, hang on there Cortana - I don't want to see you leave us forever.

I mean just gotta hang on long enough to outlive Samsung's Bixby okay not everything that dies is gone forever this year; we saw a few doomed tech products of the past make a vow to have a glorious return. Like MoviePass, the film ticket subscription service - it was purchased by the original co-founder in a bankruptcy auction.

And that guy didn't work on it in the final dumpster fire days but he believes in it so much that he thinks there's a subscription business that can exist in cinema, and whatever that ends up looking like is anyone's guess. And remember, the toxic social app Yaki Yak; that shut down in 2017.

Well, that's back too for some reason. The point of Yik Yak is to type anonymous messages for anyone to see that is in a five-mile radius from you. But that led to bullying at schools and discriminatory speech and threats of violence. But you know they say they got a plan for that now.

Since it relaunched, that is if anyone's using it; and if you're left with questions about what will 2022 look like in technology - well I'm sorry to say you won't be able to head to Yahoo for answers because on May 4th, the Yahoo Answers site was taken down after 16 years of being a resource for people to ask awful questions and get just as awful answers from users with no qualifying experience in answering anything in its final days.

Politics and conspiracy theories were taken up the top spot. So fairly well to that weird side of the internet. Good riddance.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enout with the old in with the new things move fast in technology and this year a number of gadgets and apps were canceled or shut down so that means it's time to look back on the tech that died in 2021 i want to start by taking you back to early january 2021 during the big annual ces trade show when we see lg tease a phone design that has never been done before it's a phone with a stretching screen the display rolls out to expand this was surely going to be the most exciting phone ever but it wasn't because those dreams went poof just a few months later in july lg shut down its entire smartphone business that means no more lg phones ever again i don't think i was ready for this product death i mean of course lg was not a popular phone brand in recent years but lg just has so much history in shaping our mobile world especially in the early 2000s i mean for a while lg was out iphoning the iphone in 2007 it came out with the first capacitive touch screen phone it was called the lg prada and then apple stole the attention that same month steve jobs got on stage at mac world and showed off the first iphone but hey you know technically lg was first you see this bad boy now this was a phone that i was proud to own the lg envy back when feature phones were better than the first iphone this had copy and paste baby look at that full qwerty keyboard and oh it's just so good to hold and snap a lap hear that hear it hear it watch and don't forget the lg chocolate from 2006 this slider phone mp3 player was said to be the most popular phone in the company's history it had 21 million handsets sold now of course with iphone around lg had to keep experimenting it was doing its thing with nexus phones and then there was the g series and through the years lg was always trying new things even until the very end when came the lg wing it was this double display swivel phone it turned into the letter t i mean one screen was horizontal one was vertical the lg design team just would not quit but then they did quit because it was shut down oh lg i'm sorry i left you for the iphone 3gs hey do you remember google cardboard well we have come very far in the world of vr but in march google stopped selling cardboard in the google store now i know it seems silly to think about anyone wanting one of these now but this was a basic cardboard phone holder and it became the main way most people tried vr at home it launched at google i o in 2014 and it was just this cheap way to turn a phone into a vr headset like someone cut up a pizza box and cobbled together a headset with rubber bands lenses velcro and magnets it's been reported that around 15 million units were in the world and it was only a few bucks but there were a lot of free ones given out like this one was a star wars r2d2 version that was given out when the force awakens movie came out and all of this just made vr more accessible oh i really feel like i'm in 2015 y'all no matter what device you owned there was an app that would split the screen in two and you could tinker with watching movies in new ways or give new kinds of educational lessons to a classroom and then more polished headsets eventually came out there was the google daydream which also is now kaput today google still has instructions to make your own it links out to other vendors where you can buy something similar and there's still an open source platform but google is not putting anything into this anymore this year we also said goodbye to periscope that was twitter's live video streaming app twitter shut it down in march saying that declining usage and rising costs made it unsustainable because why keep it running when the company lets you do live video on its main app twitter has a habit of buying up video apps and then shutting them down remember vine yeah you do periscope was bought by twitter in 2015 and it may not be missed now but periscope and meerkat together were these apps that really launched this idea that anyone could do a live broadcast with just a phone everyone was experimenting by just instantly taking live video of different things happening around them or serious stuff like protests and events and speeches my favorite feature on periscope was this map that had all the dots of everyone broadcasting around the world and you could just zoom in and tap anywhere on the globe to see what was happening in real time it was amazing and frankly it's something i think would be great now to offer people better perspective of life on this blue planet because the world is more than just what shows up in your little social media feed not every bit of tech that died this year was world changing i mean some stuff just made a quick exit apple killed off the homepod speaker when it finally figured out that people just aren't that into large overpriced series speakers and that's a good thing because it got apple to lean more into a more common sense version the homepod mini it's so colorful now this year also marked the end of the macbook pro touch bar the revamped macbook pro laptop brings back function keys and magsafe and just all the ports your little heart desires and i'm sorry harry potter fans but the boy who lived is dead on mobile the niantic ar game harry potter wizards unite that's shutting down it's going to end operations in january this game is similar to pokemon go but it wasn't as popular so niantic put a little vanishing spell on it this year was extra odd in that some companies tried killing off their old identities google killed google play music to push everyone into youtube music cbs all access streaming service rebranded itself to paramount plus square became block completely run now by a bunch of block heads apparently but of course the biggest change was facebook calling its overarching company meta and then changing oculus quests to metaquest even though ads all over the place still call it oculus quest it's messy but honestly you don't have to worry about what to call it because frankly everyone is still going to call it facebook i mean how many folks do you know called google alphabet no one not a single person now while i was compiling this list there was one particular product a software that i found to be just barely hanging on to life and that is cortana the microsoft voice assistant she was always cooler to me than siri when she launched on windows phone in 2014 and part of that is because she was also named after an ai computer assistant character from the halo video game and it had the same voice but her existence is being erased in 2021 microsoft shut down the cortana apps for ios and android she never was as popular as the other assistants but she was on one smart speaker and one smart thermostat and both were not popular products cortana's support on the harmon card on invoke speaker has been removed in 2021 and cortana voice command stopped working on the glass thermostat as of 2019 microsoft's xbox doesn't even use cortana uses alexa but cortana still is around inside windows computers and it can be used to join meetings or make calls and send messages and other microsoft officee product things so hang on there cortana i don't want to see you leave us forever i mean just gotta hang on long enough to outlive samsung's bixby okay not everything that dies is gone forever this year we saw a few doomed tech products of the past make a vow to have a glorious return like moviepass the film ticket subscription service it was purchased by the original co-founder in a bankruptcy auction and that guy didn't work on it in the final dumpster fire days but he believes in it so much that he thinks there's a subscription business that can exist in cinema and whatever that ends up looking like is anyone's guess and remember the toxic social app yaki yak that shut down in 2017 well that's back too for some reason the point of yik yak is to type anonymous messages for anyone to see that is in a five mile radius from you but that led to bullying at schools and discriminatory speech and threats of violence but you know they say they got a plan for that now since it relaunched that is if anyone's using it and if you're left with questions about what will 2022 look like in technology well i'm sorry to say you won't be able to head to yahoo for answers because on may 4th the yahoo answers site was taken down after 16 years of being a resource for people to ask awful questions and get just as awful answers from users with no qualifying experience in answering anything in its final days politics and conspiracy theories were taken up the top spot so fairly well to that weird side of the internet history and uh good riddance thanks for watching i love to hear from you in the comments about any tech that died this year that you're gonna miss or what you think needs to go now and we'll do this little dance again next year that is if we make it through another yearout with the old in with the new things move fast in technology and this year a number of gadgets and apps were canceled or shut down so that means it's time to look back on the tech that died in 2021 i want to start by taking you back to early january 2021 during the big annual ces trade show when we see lg tease a phone design that has never been done before it's a phone with a stretching screen the display rolls out to expand this was surely going to be the most exciting phone ever but it wasn't because those dreams went poof just a few months later in july lg shut down its entire smartphone business that means no more lg phones ever again i don't think i was ready for this product death i mean of course lg was not a popular phone brand in recent years but lg just has so much history in shaping our mobile world especially in the early 2000s i mean for a while lg was out iphoning the iphone in 2007 it came out with the first capacitive touch screen phone it was called the lg prada and then apple stole the attention that same month steve jobs got on stage at mac world and showed off the first iphone but hey you know technically lg was first you see this bad boy now this was a phone that i was proud to own the lg envy back when feature phones were better than the first iphone this had copy and paste baby look at that full qwerty keyboard and oh it's just so good to hold and snap a lap hear that hear it hear it watch and don't forget the lg chocolate from 2006 this slider phone mp3 player was said to be the most popular phone in the company's history it had 21 million handsets sold now of course with iphone around lg had to keep experimenting it was doing its thing with nexus phones and then there was the g series and through the years lg was always trying new things even until the very end when came the lg wing it was this double display swivel phone it turned into the letter t i mean one screen was horizontal one was vertical the lg design team just would not quit but then they did quit because it was shut down oh lg i'm sorry i left you for the iphone 3gs hey do you remember google cardboard well we have come very far in the world of vr but in march google stopped selling cardboard in the google store now i know it seems silly to think about anyone wanting one of these now but this was a basic cardboard phone holder and it became the main way most people tried vr at home it launched at google i o in 2014 and it was just this cheap way to turn a phone into a vr headset like someone cut up a pizza box and cobbled together a headset with rubber bands lenses velcro and magnets it's been reported that around 15 million units were in the world and it was only a few bucks but there were a lot of free ones given out like this one was a star wars r2d2 version that was given out when the force awakens movie came out and all of this just made vr more accessible oh i really feel like i'm in 2015 y'all no matter what device you owned there was an app that would split the screen in two and you could tinker with watching movies in new ways or give new kinds of educational lessons to a classroom and then more polished headsets eventually came out there was the google daydream which also is now kaput today google still has instructions to make your own it links out to other vendors where you can buy something similar and there's still an open source platform but google is not putting anything into this anymore this year we also said goodbye to periscope that was twitter's live video streaming app twitter shut it down in march saying that declining usage and rising costs made it unsustainable because why keep it running when the company lets you do live video on its main app twitter has a habit of buying up video apps and then shutting them down remember vine yeah you do periscope was bought by twitter in 2015 and it may not be missed now but periscope and meerkat together were these apps that really launched this idea that anyone could do a live broadcast with just a phone everyone was experimenting by just instantly taking live video of different things happening around them or serious stuff like protests and events and speeches my favorite feature on periscope was this map that had all the dots of everyone broadcasting around the world and you could just zoom in and tap anywhere on the globe to see what was happening in real time it was amazing and frankly it's something i think would be great now to offer people better perspective of life on this blue planet because the world is more than just what shows up in your little social media feed not every bit of tech that died this year was world changing i mean some stuff just made a quick exit apple killed off the homepod speaker when it finally figured out that people just aren't that into large overpriced series speakers and that's a good thing because it got apple to lean more into a more common sense version the homepod mini it's so colorful now this year also marked the end of the macbook pro touch bar the revamped macbook pro laptop brings back function keys and magsafe and just all the ports your little heart desires and i'm sorry harry potter fans but the boy who lived is dead on mobile the niantic ar game harry potter wizards unite that's shutting down it's going to end operations in january this game is similar to pokemon go but it wasn't as popular so niantic put a little vanishing spell on it this year was extra odd in that some companies tried killing off their old identities google killed google play music to push everyone into youtube music cbs all access streaming service rebranded itself to paramount plus square became block completely run now by a bunch of block heads apparently but of course the biggest change was facebook calling its overarching company meta and then changing oculus quests to metaquest even though ads all over the place still call it oculus quest it's messy but honestly you don't have to worry about what to call it because frankly everyone is still going to call it facebook i mean how many folks do you know called google alphabet no one not a single person now while i was compiling this list there was one particular product a software that i found to be just barely hanging on to life and that is cortana the microsoft voice assistant she was always cooler to me than siri when she launched on windows phone in 2014 and part of that is because she was also named after an ai computer assistant character from the halo video game and it had the same voice but her existence is being erased in 2021 microsoft shut down the cortana apps for ios and android she never was as popular as the other assistants but she was on one smart speaker and one smart thermostat and both were not popular products cortana's support on the harmon card on invoke speaker has been removed in 2021 and cortana voice command stopped working on the glass thermostat as of 2019 microsoft's xbox doesn't even use cortana uses alexa but cortana still is around inside windows computers and it can be used to join meetings or make calls and send messages and other microsoft officee product things so hang on there cortana i don't want to see you leave us forever i mean just gotta hang on long enough to outlive samsung's bixby okay not everything that dies is gone forever this year we saw a few doomed tech products of the past make a vow to have a glorious return like moviepass the film ticket subscription service it was purchased by the original co-founder in a bankruptcy auction and that guy didn't work on it in the final dumpster fire days but he believes in it so much that he thinks there's a subscription business that can exist in cinema and whatever that ends up looking like is anyone's guess and remember the toxic social app yaki yak that shut down in 2017 well that's back too for some reason the point of yik yak is to type anonymous messages for anyone to see that is in a five mile radius from you but that led to bullying at schools and discriminatory speech and threats of violence but you know they say they got a plan for that now since it relaunched that is if anyone's using it and if you're left with questions about what will 2022 look like in technology well i'm sorry to say you won't be able to head to yahoo for answers because on may 4th the yahoo answers site was taken down after 16 years of being a resource for people to ask awful questions and get just as awful answers from users with no qualifying experience in answering anything in its final days politics and conspiracy theories were taken up the top spot so fairly well to that weird side of the internet history and uh good riddance thanks for watching i love to hear from you in the comments about any tech that died this year that you're gonna miss or what you think needs to go now and we'll do this little dance again next year that is if we make it through another year\n"