Top 5 Tech Products Killed Off While People Were Still Using Them

Discontinued, shut down or bought out, and somehow still missed more than half of what replaced them.

1. 1

   Google Reader — Google

   The internet got noisier the day it shut down in 2013, and no feed reader since has felt quite as natural.

2. 2

   Pebble Time — Pebble

   Week-long battery, an always-on screen and buttons you could press without looking. Smartwatches went backwards after it.

3. 3

   Vine — Twitter

   Six seconds forced a kind of comedy discipline that hour-long scroll feeds have never come close to.

4. 4

   Palm Pre — Palm

   webOS had card-based multitasking years before everyone else, and it died on hardware that couldn't keep up with it.

5. 5

   Zune HD — Microsoft

   A gorgeous OLED screen and a slick interface, sunk mostly by the fact that it wasn't an iPod.