Skype, iPhone home, blue screen of death…: Tech we said goodbye to in 2025

Key Highlights

• This year seemed to have fewer high-profile goodbyes and a lot more nostalgia and changes symptomatic of larger trends. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS ADSome of the inventions are a modem handshake which connected and shifted substantial service, providing audio sense memory of the slow.
• ‘A wearable AI voice chat device’The Humane AI pin, a wearable AI voice chat device.
• The pin only lasted a year, the fact that it wasn’t very good compounded the problem.
• While HP bought Humane AI lock, stock and chatbot in February, the driver was the technical talent, operating system and patent portfolio; a revival of the hardware is unlikely. iPhone home button leaves townThe last iPhone home button has faded and lost town.
• One cannot go home on an iPhone  easily, the last model with a dedicated home button was the iPhone SE, which was replaced by the home buttonless iPhone 16E in February. Window’s new blue screen of deathWindows’ blue screen of death has been a tech staple since the early days of the graphical user interface, one of the most dreaded and not-terribly-useful jump scares ever provided by a system crash.