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Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by ummonk on Thursday May 22, 2025 @01:35PM (#44064465)
What hosted products has Apple dropped? iCloud might stop supporting old devices but that doesn’t stop you from keeping the data on device or accessing via a new device.
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by chimeracoder on Thursday May 22, 2025 @01:48PM (#44064630)
> What hosted products has Apple dropped? iCloud might stop supporting old devices but that doesn’t stop you from keeping the data on device or accessing via a new device.

Apple is a bit of a weird case because historically they've been a hardware company first and have done very little in the way of consumer services. But they're just as happy as to kill off consumer products if they want to; they just have a more limited selection to start from (which is itself another layer to the "problem" of trying to use them as a replacement - you can't rely on a product they don't offer).

Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by madeofpalk on Thursday May 22, 2025 @01:45PM (#44064600)
iTunes Ping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Ping. I never trusted Apple after they got rid of that /s

Apple's problem is they'll often leave products to be stagnant. Existing, but on life support. Like basically all their Mac Apps. A lot of hardware products like this as well, like HomePods.

They have a raft of iOS apps that seemingly come out of hackathon projects that they release, never update, and then maybe quietly kill off. I thought they killed Clips, but it's still hanging out there...

Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 by ikomrad on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @04:39PM (#44110489)
And here I thought I was the only person who used that service.

RIP Apple Ping.

It met the same fate as Facebook Ping.