In memory of 2022: technological achievements and characters who did not live to see 2023

By default, it is assumed that any innovation exists for a long time and fruitfully. In some cases, people and brands are making breakthroughs that could change the way we work and many do not withstand changes and new trends. In addition, the life of famous people associated with technology is also short, and many have said goodbye to this past year 2022. NIUSGEEK pays tribute to the people and brands that left us last year.

He has already died, but now he is losing his honorary mass. BlackBerry has decided to drop all of its proprietary software for smartphones and tablets: BlackBerry OS 7.1, BB10 and PlayBook OS 2.1 for large screens. At the same time, the return of the company to the mobile world is impossible.

The Google gravedigger had a very prolific 2022 and one of his big bets didn’t survive the past year. Cradle “Cobra Kai” was dropped due to platform rethinking. “Cobra Kai” is gone, “YouTube Originals” is gone.

Another “death by Google” was the Duo communications and chat system, proposed by the Mountain View giant in 2016 in response to Apple’s successful FaceTime. The solution was simple: They needed to give a boost to Google Meet, the video calling app that has been competing with Zoom and Teams since the start of the pandemic.

It is arguably one of the most iconic technology products of the millennium and its retirement is similar to Messi’s after winning the World Cup in Qatar. The iPod had it all: it changed the digital music market, it gave podcasts a half name, it was the forerunner of the iPhone, it brought iOS to the masses, it remained a technology icon for nearly 20 years, it beat all its competitors. in all markets, it had options to suit all habits and, above all, it was the cheapest way to get Apple stickers. Rest in peace, legend.

The “crypto winter” continues to hurt, leaving behind a trail of bankrupt companies and fleeing CEOs. One of them is Do Kwon, the creator of the TERRAUST fund and the LUNA cryptocurrency, the value of which at $116 per unit has collapsed to 0.01 cents per hour. After that, trust in cryptocurrencies plummeted.

Along with the iPod, Internet Explorer was the flagship product in the technology segment. There is no Windows user who has not accidentally used the mythical Microsoft Explorer at least once. Despite attempts by the Redmond-based company to “get it right” to use Edge as a browser in the environment, more than 70 million people were using IE when support ended.

Did you know that CNN had a payment platform like Netflix and was looking for a special link in the WarnerMedia offer? Well, so do we. We found out about it, and less than five weeks later, the application was announced to be closed.

You won’t recognize him by name, but remember that he created the most memetic format of this century: GIF. COVID-19 took this visionary CompuServe engineer away from us at the age of 74.

If there is one rat we have to thank for anything, it is Magawa. This rodent was trained to sniff out explosives hidden in Cambodian villages, saved thousands of lives in 5 years, and won awards for his work before retiring and dying in peace, away from human violence.

Another victim of Google in 2022 was the Hangouts app, which allowed you to chat between contacts on different platforms. Many of these tools are moving into Google Chat, despite the fact that the app has been downloaded 5 billion times.

Before Dota 2, LoL, and other MOBAs, the world would spend hours gathering on HoN servers. However, Frostburn Studios was unable to adapt to the new market and closed its servers after 12 years of operation.

We witnessed the birth of this fruitful union in 2016, when the legendary P9 raised the bar for mobile photography with a monochrome lens. From this starting point, Huawei’s lens technology has reached an extraordinary level and focused on the P and Mate lines, but in 2022 the agreement was no longer exclusive. Xiaomi now wears the German company logo on the cases of their smartphones and we think they still fall short of the requirements.

Although it is scheduled for January 23 this year, Microsoft issued a Windows 8.1 euthanasia decree in mid-2022. This software did not have the ability to erase the bad image of the new interface that Microsoft wanted to impose in the first part. the past decade, and are consistent with the concept of phones that were unsuccessfully launched with Nokia. For forgetting this confusing window.

With crypto holdings, Zuckerberg stepped up his interest in building a platform that centralizes digital transactions and for a while dreamed of a currency that would bring together various tech companies. When he woke up, he realized that no one wanted to give him a dime, and in the end, Novi did not find a place in the industry.

Whenever we think of brands like Google and Facebook, we have a mental image in which distributed resources are calibrated to enhance the most powerful and commercial solutions. Having a standalone game viewer app didn’t help much, and Meta decided to shut down the mobile version that was already present in the main Facebook app.

If you have a game console at home, you have much to thank for whoever bet on the original PlayStation and Sega Dreamcast. The former Sony executive has died at the age of 75.

It’s rare that the joint efforts of PlatinumGames and Square Enix haven’t influenced other successful titles like Bayonetta or NeR Automata. Poor reception of Babylon Has Fallen will result in a server shutdown in February 2023 and a life cycle shutdown of less than one year.

Yes, another. Google’s new roadmap, embodied in the recent Google I/O 2022, did not include a new version of the ChromeOS laptop designed for the Pixel line, which already fuels rumors of a tablet and an affordable version of the Pixel 7. As such, Google will retain responsibility for guiding the Chromebook market. OEMs.

Another “Made by Google” shutdown in 2022 was the closure of Stadia’s cloud gaming division. This project, which was aiming to carve out a place in the cloud computing market for PlayStation and XBOX, did not reach a critical mass of users or the necessary support from developers to give it momentum. Game over.

I will not hide that I was delighted with the Onward concept regarding a possible BlackBerry with a physical keyboard and 5G technology, which was theoretically promised for 2021. When the deadline expired, we learned that the company had lost its license to use the BlackBerry name, and with it the hope of the fans.

Remember that Google is spelled with the G from Game of Thrones. Aside from the long list scattered in disarray within this post, a special moment has been set aside for joining forces within the GEO division, which has finally made the decision to end support for the standalone Street View app, the one already integrated into Google Maps. If the calculations are correct, the next brand to say goodbye could be Waze.

If there’s a sad story this year, it’s the one that has to do with the death of Yu-Gi-Oh’s creator. According to witnesses of the event, Takahashi decides to help a family that is in danger of drowning on an Okinawa beach while scuba diving. Everyone present agrees that the mangaka, whose body was found lifeless in the area two days later, died like a hero.

There is no proof, but there is no doubt that the younger brother of the iPhone line will not return to the windows. This thesis meets two conditions: the presence of the iPhone SE as a summer “wild card” for Apple and the return of the Plus model to the main catalog. If you have an iPhone Mini 13, hug it and accompany it to the end of its days.

Last year, we closed our tribute with the death of Glen De Vries, one of the crew on the second Blue Origin mission. This year, Valery Ryumin passes away at the age of 82, after a prolific aerospace career that kept him away from Earth for 371 days on four different missions.

The closing of the Mars exploration phase is happening now, before Christmas, with the last message sent by the InSight robot from the red planet. From this lonely panorama, gradually losing his strength, he was able to convey to humanity the last message: “Thank you for staying with me.”