2023 is coming to an end and we have a unique opportunity to look back and remember those left behind. In 365 days of 2023, there was time to discover new applications and games, but at the same time We said goodbye to services, apps and more It’s about our Android phones.

As a tribute, I respectfully commemorate those who died in 2023Just like we did in previous years. Whether they were the best or not, we chose to remember them fondly in this final farewell before we change the year.

Google Stadia

Date of death: January 18, 2023.

Rumors that Google’s game streaming service would be shutting down were long-running and were finally confirmed last year. Final closing did not occur until the beginning of the year.

Shutting down Stadia one of last year’s biggest hits Although Google offers refunds to those who paid for the games. As for the controller, Google has given us a hold until next year to turn it from a paperweight into a Bluetooth controller.

Street View app

Date of death: March 21, 2023.

Another farewell of this year, which echoed last year, was the closure of the Street View application. APPLICATION It is not necessary to view Street View in Google Maps Since version 2.0 it had remained a place where such content could be seen and published.

Although Google announced its closure last year, the app survived for a few months in 2023 and was permanently removed on March 21. Since that time, you must use Google Maps to upload global photos and the Street View Studio website for everything else.

MariSilicon chips

Date of death: May 12, 2023.

The dream of OPPO’s MariSilicon processors ended after the company announced in May that it would shut down Zeku, two years after its founding. microprocessor design department.

Zeku survived thanks to MariSilicon photo and video processing It is one of the top-end phones and is available on OPPO Find X5, OPPO Reno8 Pro and Oppo Find X6.

Archived Hangouts Photos

Date of death: July 19, 2023.

Google gave us a big scare by announcing that it would delete some of our photos this year without much notice. Fortunately, declutter a la Marie Kondo was limited to photo albums of extinct products like Hangouts.

Photos of extinct products like Hangouts or Google+ landed in Google’s repository album archive. This file went to the trash on July 19, 2023 unless you download a backup first.

excitement

Date of death: July 24, 2023.

Is Twitter dead? Depending on who you ask, the answer will be a resounding no or yes, but the truth is that since Elon Musk closed the acquisition at the end of last year, social network turned upside down and competition emerged even under the stones.

Twitter started its new phase on a turbulent note, with all kinds of changes made and undone. Twitter’s name changed to X Some of us have not yet recovered. Twitter is dead. Long live X.

Huawei Music

Date of death: 31 August 2023.

Huawei has spent the last few years developing all kinds of apps and services to fill the gap left by Google’s absence on its devices, but all is not well. End of the year, Huawei was going elsewhere with musicat least on Huawei Music.

Huawei Music is a pre-installed music app for home phones, with which you can play files you’ve saved locally on your phone, but since 2020. I wanted to compete with Spotify, offers you music streaming for around 9.99 euros per month. Following the shutdown of the streaming service, Huawei Music has once again become an old-school player.

Gafas Google

Date of death: September 15, 2023.

Google Glass is like the end-of-level monster that appears to be dead but always returns. We tested the originals over a decade ago, and they’ve tested them ever since It has reinvented itself several times as work eyewearJust like the ones we met in 2019.

Exactly these, Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2, stopped receiving software updates Since September 15, this means they can stop working with Google Meet whenever they want. The glasses were stopped selling a few months ago.

Facebook Messenger Lite

Date of death: September 18, 2023.

There was a time when it was fashionable to create Lite versions of applications, but now entry-level mobile phones are not “potatoes” like in the past. What you need to do is to close Lite applications and force everyone to use the main app.

Messenger Lite stopped working in September, so those using it install regular Messenger or use another messaging app. Meanwhile, regular Messenger also buried a function this year: SMS.

Notifications in context menu

Date of death: October 4, 2023.

The change in Android 14 that caught us a little off guard is that these are no longer displayed Notifications from an app when you tap for a long time on the icon in the context menu.

This behavior In the official Google launcher on Pixelbut each manufacturer is free to continue implementing this, and in fact if you use a launcher like Nova Launcher you’ll still have it.

MIUI

Date of death: October 26, 2023.

One of the bomb news of the year came from Xiaomi. Announced that MIUI will be replaced by HyperOSnew mobile operating system and everything else.

Xiaomi marks the year with HyperOS, a Huawei one that reaches a handful of phones and It will now be Xiaomi’s system for new versions and updated.

Unlimited WhatsApp backup

Date of death: From December 1, 2023.

We had a strong performance this year deja vu and bad memories of the Google Photos unlimited backup thing a few years ago when WhatsApp announced something similar: backup Will start deducting from Google’s shared storageIf we save it to Google Drive.

Until now, WhatsApp backup in Google Drive was not deducted from the total regardless of whether it took up 20 MB or 20 GB, but this will be eliminated soon. In fact, WhatsApp started notifying users about the change since December 1, and it is expected to be implemented to all users in the first months of 2024.

Google Play Movies

Date of death: January 17, 2024.

Last year Google Play Music left and this year we said goodbye to Google Play Movies. The application has long been replaced by the Google TV application on mobile devices, but Survived on Android TV.

After Google integrated purchased movies and series into a new tab on Android TV (or YouTube, as the case may be), the fate of Google Play Movies was sealed forever. But you will see the new year It will be completely closed before the end of January.

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