Tech History

Touchscreens didn’t kill keyboard phones. Here’s why nearly every maker exited within years of each other, and what still exists in 2026.

The iPhone 4S launched Siri on October 4, 2011, one day before Steve Jobs died. Here is what the launch actually changed, dated and sourced.

Apple didn’t invent the smartwatch. From Microsoft’s SPOT in 2004 to Pebble’s 2012 Kickstarter, here is who built one first, and why most of them

Cisco bought Flip’s maker for about $590 million in 2009 and shut it down two years later. Here is why, and why it happened right

HP bought Palm for $1.2 billion in 2010 and killed webOS 49 days after its flagship tablet launched. Here is the full story, and where

Nokia went from 51% of the phone market to selling its handset business in three years. The Symbian collapse, the Microsoft deal, and what remains.

Segway launched in 2001 promising to reinvent transportation. Ninebot ended production in 2020. Here is what actually happened, and what replaced it.

Microsoft launched the Zune in 2006, never caught the iPod, and discontinued all Zune hardware in 2011. Here is the real reason it failed.

Kinect sold 10 million units in 133 days and set a Guinness record. Microsoft discontinued it in 2017. Here is the full timeline and why