What Happened to MP3 Players? The Category’s Real Story
MP3 players died in two steps: the smartphone took the object, then streaming took the library.…
What Happened to TomTom and Garmin GPS Units
Smartphones killed the dashboard GPS unit, but not the companies. Garmin got bigger, TomTom got smaller,…
What Happened to the Flip Video Camera?
Cisco bought Flip's maker for about $590 million in 2009 and shut it down two years…
What Happened to the Segway?
Segway launched in 2001 promising to reinvent transportation. Ninebot ended production in 2020. Here is what…
Why Netbooks Disappeared
Netbooks went from the fastest-growing category in computing to gone in five years. The iPad gets…
Why Apple Discontinued the iPod
Apple ended the iPod in four stages between 2014 and May 2022. Here is what closed…
Dead Gadgets of the 2000s and 2010s
A map of the gadgets that ended between 2004 and 2018, grouped by what actually killed…