Sometimes technology dies because a company goes out of business or it's old and people just move on to a new system.
But sometimes technology dies because of corporate greed and forced obsolescence.
And it's a lesson millions of Google customers, like me, learned this year when their Nest smart home thermostats suddenly turned dumb and Google pushed owners to spend $150 to buy a new thermostat, even when the old one worked perfectly fine.
So yeah, let's dive into some of the drama of the past year and look back on the tech that died in 2025.
You see, it's a way to pay our respects to old gadgets and services, and hopefully, by confronting the grief, it'll be a little therapeutic.
Let's start back in February, when Apple officially killed off the iPhone home button.
When Apple launched the iPhone 16e, it stopped selling the budget-friendly iPhone SE, and that was the last iPhone that Apple sold that had a home button.
That same month, it also marked the end of the Humane AI pin.
The wearable was a failure right from the start.
When it launched, it cost about $700.
