A curated graveyard cataloging discontinued Apple products, services, and features from AirPower to iTunes to the Mac Pro tower line.
Key Takeaways
Apple Pay Later lasted under two years before Apple abandoned in-house BNPL and shifted to third-party installment providers.
Touch Bar, MagSafe Battery Pack, iPhone 13 mini, and iPhone SE (3rd gen) all reflect Apple quietly closing hardware experiments with limited adoption.
Dark Sky was acquired, stripped of Android and API access, then folded into Apple Weather – a textbook acqui-kill.
QuickTime for Windows was killed in 2016 with critical unpatched security vulnerabilities; users were advised to uninstall immediately.
AirPower is the canonical Apple public failure: announced 2017, canceled 2019 after Apple admitted it could not meet its own engineering standards.
Hacker News Comment Review
Core dispute: several commenters argue the list conflates normal product lifecycle transitions (Find My Friends folded into Find My, iTunes split into Music/Podcasts/TV) with genuine kills, diluting the signal.
Contrast with Google: commenters note Apple’s list reads differently from Killed by Google because most discontinued hardware was supported within its era, and software features typically migrated rather than vanished.
Sherlocking and acquisition kills are underrepresented; FingerWorks TouchStream (acquired, immediately killed) and iAd (failed reinvention bet) are the kinds of entries that add sharper business signal.
Notable Comments
@benoau: flags Rosetta 2 as a likely near-future entry and notes Mac Pro was “killed” via neglect before its official discontinuation – a pattern the list underweights.
