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Nintendo Kills Miitomo, its First Smartphone App

January 26, 2018Malika Karoum Metaverse

Nintendo is culling Miitomo, its first ever smartphone app. Miitomo was Nintendo’s first foray into mobile gaming beyond its own platforms, and showed the company that there was demand for its games on Android and iOS. However, after just two years Nintendo has decided to pull the plug. In 2015 Nintendo announced its intentions to […]

Microsoft Kills the Kinect Adapter for Xbox One

January 4, 2018January 4, 2018Malika Karoum Metaverse

Microsoft has discontinued the Kinect Adapter, effectively killing the already-pretty-dead Kinect peripheral. The Kinect Adapter is the USB accessory required to connect a Kinect to the Xbox One S, Xbox One X, or a Windows PC. So if you want one, you had better buy one while stocks last. The Kinect was originally released in […]

Facebook Kills the Ticker Showing Friends’ Activities

December 11, 2017Malika Karoum Metaverse

Facebook appears to have killed the Ticker, which previously showed you what your friends were doing on the social network in real time. Facebook is well known for changing things up on a regular basis, but the killing of the Ticker is odd in that there’s been no official announcement. The Algorithmic Timeline Ticks Off […]

Apple Kills the iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle

July 30, 2017Malika Karoum Metaverse

The iPod is no more, with Apple discontinuing both the Nano and Shuffle. That leaves the iPod Touch as the only Apple device now sporting the iPod name. And we all know that’s more than just a standalone music player. And with that another piece of tech falls to the mighty smartphone. Technology evolves at […]

Google Kills Instant Search Because Everybody Uses Smartphones

July 27, 2017Malika Karoum Metaverse

Google is killing Instant Search, which rendered search results in realtime as you typed. The problem, according to Google, is we all now do most of our searching on smartphones, and Instant Search makes no sense on smartphones. So killing the feature is the only sensible option. Google introduced Instant Search in 2010, with then-vice […]

Google Finally Kills Google Talk After 12 Years

March 25, 2017March 25, 2017Malika Karoum Metaverse

Google is retiring Google Talk, also known as Google Chat, after 12 long years of service. The company is urging Talk users to switch to Hangouts rather than the combination of Duo and Allo. Which suggests that Google still has one (or seven) too many messaging/chat apps on its books. Back in 2005, before WhatsApp, […]