the day will soon come when these kinds of devices will have small llm's onboard like pixel phones do, and they won't require any internet connection at all for surprisingly good ai chat interactions. the manufacturers will for sure give them wifi for updates and things like music, googling, the weather, and other features, but if the wifi goes out, you'll still be able to chat with a personalized, intelligent little chatbot with a personality
@@CommonTater100 All evidence points to the opposite of this being true. Manufacturers WANT everything connecting back to their cloud, they have every incentive to NOT do what you just said and that's obvious in the move of virtually all products becoming internet connected, subscriptions, client/server based, even when there's no functional purpose for them to do so. TL:DR - No. Probably not.
Well tough luck because future tech products will require an internet service to run or a subscription service even...you cant escape it..planned obsolesces is real and it sucks...cant even run a printer or playstation anymore without internet
This is the sad thing about the digital age. As soon as companies go out of business, their products no longer work essentially erasing not only your purchase, but also history.
All part of the plan where we'll own nothing and be happy about it. Once a cloud (read someone else's computer) service is pulled your access is gone and there is no refund. Whereas physical media may be subject to wear and tear it'll generally last decades and you typically only pay for it once
@Guzmania so it would seem that way, but it's weaponized. Like I believe the Original Lord of the Rings movies were unavailable to rent when the Hobbit trilogy released since they knew interest would be high. You only had the option to buy them digitally.
Agree. I want a physical disc so I don't need the internet to watch a movie or listen to a song. Believe it or not, there are still places on the planet where you can't get cell coverage.
CDs do sound better than streaming and mp3s and if you have great speaker setup age doesn't matter. I found so many amazing used AVRs, speakers for less than today's cheap soundbar.
@ they sound a whole lot better. I have a JBL 7.1 system from the 90s and a newish Yamaha receiver. CDs with a good recording sound excellent. When streaming through Apple Music I have to turn on lossless and connect my Mac through thunderbolt to my receiver. We went from high quality listening to compressed Bluetooth passive listening.
@@prateekpanwar646 To be honest, I often end up downloading the songs via WAV or FLAC, despite it being compressed. I do try to find it via higher quality/resolution as much as I can. But to get the official audio source from CDs or online tends to be a 50/50. I thankfully have some CDs, but some of them got stuck in an enclosed CD player and thus got thrown out sadly without my input. I absolutely hate when my family members or people throw out something, not realizing that type of CD/discs are no longer manufactured anymore and can be lost to time if you ask me.
That kid robot death is just another example of why free and open source is better. People should have the option of putting their own OS and software on the robot to keep it going as long as they want.
I remember that's what the "Stop Killing Games" EU initiative was aiming to do. Make companies release the server binaries for always-online games, so people could physically own games after the service ends.
@@LadyDeirdre Mmm, I guess. If that's what it is then, then why not blackout the ones the public shouldn't know about like personal names and addresses and such??? I don't know.
There would be practical problems with that. The technology may be commercially licensed from third parties. Also when a company goes bankrupt there may be no one around to arrange for open sourcing. Personally I would find it a win if companies were forced to more actively inform their customers of the risks of their cloud based products.
To anyone with a car thing: there’s a project online that brings it back to life. It's called desk thing, it’s fairly easy to set up and makes it so much more feature-rich.
Sure modern TVs have it but not all people have that. I bought a 1080p TV from auction for $20 and the Chromecast gave it Android TV with mirroring capabilities. Plus, built in TV software can become bloated/laggy after some time.
@@blzt3206I mean, please do. I’d prefer not to have a smartTV that’s riddled with crappy OS software and needs an always-on connection to deliver ads right on my TV.
Don't forget: 2024 also saw the death of Online play for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. No more tourneys in Smash Bros Wii U, no more Ghost Races in the Wii U version of Mario Kart 8, No more GTS and online trades in Pokémon Gen 6 and Gen 7, and millions of user-created levels in the first Super Mario Maker are forever lost.
@@RodolfoAmbriz What a great way to think about companies ripping off customers. No one will ever be held accountable with this logic 😄 "bUt ThErE aRe WorSE ComPaNiEs OuT tHere 🤤"
@ Im not saying Nintendo or any other massive corporation or small family owned business is not accountable for doing things anyone can consider bad; I'm saying personally I wouldn't red flag Nintendo first.
3:56 actually after spotify had some pressure the Car Thing source files was released and now the Car Thing is a Car mod (or with a open source mod - desk thing, can be a desk... thing), with users able to load custom firmware onto it
same here I still use itunes to burn my cd's. however, since alot of newer pc are ditching optical drives. there still alternatives to the apple super drive if you're using a mac. there are external drives available in the market. also, there are a few 5.25 inch external enclosures in the market as well.
@@zyxw2000 lucky you because most new cars have ditched the cd player for Carplay. it a shame that there is no longer a tool to connect a external or portable cd player to your car stereo these days unless you're lucky to have a AUX jack.
@@chrisstory563 Can't you connect one to the hole that was once called the "cigarette lighter?" Anyway my car is 20 years old, and I wouldn't trade it for a very new car with those computerized dashboards. What's Carplay?
DVDs & Blu-rays are miles better than streaming. It doesn't require internet. You can watch it whenever you want and the best thing is they can't take it away from you or alter it. A good example is what Amazon Prime did to it's a wonderful life. They removed once the most important scenes of the whole movie giving context for the rest or the story. Don't you just hate it when you're watching something on Netflix then it leaves, and then you can't watch it again? If you have it on disk, you can watch it anytime you want.
I agree, and I bought a streaming only movie from Amazon about ten years ago, and the copyright owner, (as in the studio), pulled it from Amazon. I lost the movie and my money. I haven't purchased a streaming movie since, and I never will!
Optical media don't suffer from bitrot as there is no contact between the media and the read interface. Since their made of polymers which don't readily break down, optical media such as DVD and CD could remain operational for over a hundred years if stored properly. @@kidShibuya
@@AngelTorres-fj3lu GMail won't be going anywhere either for the same reason as google drive. They get too much out of scanning all incoming and outgoing emails.
@@AnnamalaibatshaIf you buy a new Apple Watch outside the US from an Apple Store, the feature is enabled. The patent issue only affects watches sold in the US
@@bobmcbobbington9220That's not exactly insightful. Some of these kids are young enough to be unable to discern sentience. You might feel differently when some company makes media of your parents, your children, or your own childhood disappear. You really don't have any problem with your 50K car bricking in 3 months? Speaking of touching grass, understand that no one is impressed with that mentally challenged edgelord nonsense. Don't speak of common sense and cogent thinking when you demonstrate neither.
@@bobmcbobbington9220That's not exactly insightful. Some of these kids are young enough to be unable to discern sentience. You might feel differently when some company makes media of your parents, your children, or your own childhood disappear. You really don't have any problem with your 50K car bricking in 3 months? Speaking of touching grass, understand that no one is impressed with that short bus - worthy edgelord nonsense. Don't speak of common sense and cogent thinking when you demonstrate neither.
The Jamboard was really impressive. The features it had were incredible! Definitely not for regular people. I work in tech and I worked at a company that had several of these. Their capabilities were really impressive. They were able to do WAY more than you’d think. It was basically a giant tablet with a fairly unique way of interacting with it that required learning the device to get the most out of it. If you just use it like a whiteboard you’re not really getting much out of it. I think it may be an ahead of its time kind of device. I think we are going to see these kinds of things again in the future.
@ I haven’t used one in several years. It was closer to having a giant iPad with procreate than just a whiteboard. Multiple rooms in different locations can create on the same board at the same time for a more fluid remote experience. Also, the board itself was shared across the call to each room. I’m a software engineer in Silicon Valley. The rooms with these were coveted. They allowed for better sharing and easier manipulation of data. People in another room in another state or another country could make adjustments to what the other room of people was doing. You’ve seen an artist use procreate? It’s like magic. You’ve seen a regular person use procreate? For them it’s like a child with a piece of paper and a pen. There was a learning curve. But, what it could do was impressive. I think it was the Jam board. I don’t know how many of these online digital whiteboard devices there were. You may want to look for videos here on UA-cam that break down capabilities. You’ll likely get more out of that.
Ahh yeah, in my private school we used Promethean Boards, which some of the ones I did look up were discontinued in the mid 2010s. They were one heck of a cool projector, and I'm sure they had a ton of features. But considering they were close to $5,000+ dollars, and took up an entire wall to set up, I unfortunately could not get one. But using projects to project your inputs and outputs is still a cool idea if you ask me.
The physical Jamboards were great, just one example - import your slide as a background then get your attendees (remote or in-person) to mark them up. We also used them as selfie-stations for events to grab a record of who attended. Take a selfie and then ask them to write a note against their picture with what they hope to achieve from the session. They were great for getting attendees on their feet and engaging with the course materials. Sorry to see it go.
I have spoken to a 16 yo kid lately and he said that he preferred to talk to AI about his problems rather than talking to a real human being / adults. Reason: he is not agreeable with anyone who disagree / thumbs down to his thinking, prefer to be delulu.
@@ElderStatesman I agree. but the thing I love about DVDs, is that even if you do widescreen/full screen on it, you will get a perfect 4 by 3 aspect ratio that looks perfect and at 480p on some movies, they still look really good even 20/25 years after they were released on that medium.
00:04 - 2024 saw the demise of several tech products, including Fossil smartwatches. 00:48 - Apple discontinued key products and features in 2024. 01:33 - Apple and other companies phase out physical media and services. 02:16 - Several Google apps and services were discontinued in 2024. 02:59 - Google discontinued Chromecast app, replaced by a more expensive device. 03:41 - Major tech failures in 2024 include overheating batteries and discontinued hardware. 04:26 - Emerging humanoid robots aim to replace human interaction. 05:08 - Funding issues led to the shutdown of a beloved robot toy.
True, but I think Google expects most of the ideas that come from its employees to eventually fail because it uses the "throw everything at the wall to see if it sticks" method of finding new hits. And Google is able to allow its people to take chances and create moonshot products because Google makes so much money.
@@BryonLettermanthat’s not a good company method, I’d rather see fewer ideas with solid planning and dedication. Consumers don’t like seeing their products and services discontinued after a few years.
I am quite sad at the end of the chromecast, I love how versatile they are since they are essentially a reskinned android device so you can install any app you wanted as long as it had Google tv support, the software lives on in smart tvs and the new streamer, but it still makes me feel bad at the death of such a whimsical little device, RIP chromecast
Fun fact: Redbox didn't shutdown its kiosk. It only shutdown its websites and stopped paying the services that its kiosk used. Like the stores and its CC processors;).
1:57 I literally paused ⏸️ my tv and looked for my phone to come here to the comments section to explain the laugh 🤣 I release when she said with the "straightest" face ever, "Since I'm already breaking the hearts of 90s kids". She literally stared into my soul and said that to me 🤣😭💀👏🏾
I still use & need physical media. Actually, there's a group around hacking Spotify's Car Thing so they do other Things. And this is why tech must not be dependent on internet connectivity.
4:50 you’re talking about this $800 developmental toy to help kids learn as being expensive. Haven’t you REPEATEDLY shown $700+ transformer toys like they were some awesome thing everyone should get? This thing for kids actually helps them learn. They’re about the same price and this kid’s toy has WAY more functionality for about the same price you’re balking at. Seems odd.
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@@nat0106951 again, as I already said before they didn't discontinue the product, rather the brand it's the same product under a new name it is LITERALLY the same product with another name
You're delivering these cheesy lines with such good presentation skills, that it makes them fun to watch. It's not easy to say a deliver boring news in a snappy and engaging way.
I hope society as a whole will learn at some point, that you should never get products, that only work connected to a cloud. Basically anything, that requires internet access should not be considered. This includes games, which demand an internet connection. Because just as physical products, when those servers go down, you can't play those games anymore, despite having all the necessary data and hardware. I tell you, one day there will be the first car, only working with an internet connection. And I believe it's gonna bomb hard. When Windows 10 will not be supported next year anymore, I will keep using it offline and move all my online business to Linux, not dealing with Microsoft and it's shenanigans anymore. For that, I am also glad I am working with an old offline Photoshop version, because sticking to Adobe's greed and their cloud requirements would not let me do that. Using cloud stuff doesn't only mean, services can seize any moment, but that the provider has full control over everything you can and can't do with the service. And who wants that? I am giving the finger to Microsoft and Adobe for their crap, and with older stuff I remain perfectly capable of doing what I want to do.
Had no idea Chromecast was killed this year. I've had one for over a decade now, and while admittedly I use it less thanks to Smart TVs, it's still handy now and then. Shame.
@@nerdrooted Chromecast is good if you want to keep your TV offline. The apps you're casting from will get better updates and performance than your smart TV will.
For Moxie they did do an update within the week that opens it up to connecting to another server. It looks like the team is trying to keep it functional even if at a basic level for its users. Not sure if they are going to open it up or not but its promising and they are trying. I don't think they wanted this to happen and it was unplanned.
Love your presenting style on this excellent video of tech that died in 2024. Hope you and your family have a fabulous Christmas Bridget 🎄❤️ see you next year.
Physical media is making a comeback. More and more people are remembering what it meant to actually own movies and music versus renting it with high subscription fees and subpar quality.
It’s weird. We used rodent movies before buying them to see if we liked them enough. Now it seems like some of us are watching on streaming first then deciding if streaming is enough, or if we like it at a dvd, blue ray. Or 4k level.
@@CMFrey-ii5tx Don't know about you, but I've recently started renting some DVDs from my local video store of movies and shows I don't currently own like people would do in the good old days. I'm still refusing to pay a single penny towards streaming.
@@CanIHasThisName Literally no different than how it was in 2005. AIM talked to AIM. YIM talked to YIM. MSN talked to MSN. Unless you had something like Pidgin which was accomplished by reverse engineering each service and wasn't officially sanctioned by any of them.
@@tennessee.tiger1988 You say it was no different and then point out how it was drastically different. It was possible to have a single client that unified all of them. That’s the difference. This even included things like Facebook chat for a good while. Windows phones used have all these various types of IM integrated in the native messaging app. Now it’s just impossible. You can’t have a single service unifying multiple different ones, you need to have all those different services installed and again, most of them are tied to other services.
I'd like clarification, as well. I've only used it on Windows, but, historically, there was a standalone installer and an app installer on Microsoft Store. At the time of writing, the iTunes store is still accessible in the iTunes app for Windows. Moreover, Microsoft Store still lists the iTunes app.
Google podcasts is shutting down??! Fools… This was actually my favorite podcast app.. on the other hand I can’t have too little Google products on my phone..
4:31 IT'S GOT A CUTE LITTLE CIRCLE HEAD !! PLEASE LEAVE IT LIKE THIS !! STOP MAKING ROBOTS TO LOOK LIKE HUMANS !! LET THEM LOOK LIKE FUNKY COOL LIL ROBOTS !!
the usb superdrive actually hasn’t worked for years because it needed help from macOS since it used only one usb port instead of two, but that was removed long ago
Bridget! Thank you for the farewell of 2024. Not seeing you in the last couple of videos, I was like where is she? Love your sense of humor. Merry Christmas 🎄 to you and your family and all of Cnet!
That ICQ which died was just a service called ICQ. The original at some point merged with AIM. That ICQ is just the name after a relaunch after being bought, but with a completely different service.
iTunes still exists on iOS. I buy - yes, buy - music from there all the time. Though I think purchasing music should be moved to the Music app like movies and shows on the TV app.
California just passed a law where you can’t even call digital purchases “buying” anymore. It’s more accurately called leasing. When their servers go offline all your purchases are gone .. just like that therapy robot. I think the law was aimed at Steam video game purchases, but I believe it’s farther reaching.
People need smartphones and computers to do their jobs. They don't need AI robot companions. Tell everyone you never leave your mom's basement without telling everyone. 🤦🙄
Re CDs being dead not quite, it's holding steady and in some countries sales have gone up, a reason is audio quality, streaming is still compressed audio but a CD is uncompressed. Take any CD with your favourite song and then compare with Spotify, Apple Music, UA-cam Music. CD audio is noticeably better. According to some metrics nearly half of CD buyers are in their mid 20s. Now DVDs, BluRays are a different story, they are going the way of the Dood.
You say that as if people at large aren't spending like double that money in phones each year, 800 bucks for a toy like that is a steal in comparison (if it actually works as promised of course)
Or maybe the parents just bought an $800 toy because it was advertised to help shy kids come out of their shell or go through difficult times, and they felt that if we can spend $1,000 on a new phone every other year, they can buy their kid a little robot pal who listens to them and gives them advice from the cloud.
What we learned: dont buy anything that requires a connection to the cloud for primary functions.
the day will soon come when these kinds of devices will have small llm's onboard like pixel phones do, and they won't require any internet connection at all for surprisingly good ai chat interactions. the manufacturers will for sure give them wifi for updates and things like music, googling, the weather, and other features, but if the wifi goes out, you'll still be able to chat with a personalized, intelligent little chatbot with a personality
Cloud is where they mine your data.
You should have known that decades ago. Just saying.
@@CommonTater100 All evidence points to the opposite of this being true. Manufacturers WANT everything connecting back to their cloud, they have every incentive to NOT do what you just said and that's obvious in the move of virtually all products becoming internet connected, subscriptions, client/server based, even when there's no functional purpose for them to do so.
TL:DR - No. Probably not.
Well tough luck because future tech products will require an internet service to run or a subscription service even...you cant escape it..planned obsolesces is real and it sucks...cant even run a printer or playstation anymore without internet
This is the sad thing about the digital age. As soon as companies go out of business, their products no longer work essentially erasing not only your purchase, but also history.
You've now understood the core goals of "The Great Reset".
We have enough problems without conspiracy nuts like you.@@beneditofredericocongolojr1567
Happens all the time. The floppy disc, laser disc, cassette tapes, 8 track, vhs.
@@noelv1976all of the things you listed still work though.
@@noelv1976those still work though don't they? I could missing the point, cheers.
I hate the attack on physical media. Streaming services aren't a good replacement
All part of the plan where we'll own nothing and be happy about it.
Once a cloud (read someone else's computer) service is pulled your access is gone and there is no refund. Whereas physical media may be subject to wear and tear it'll generally last decades and you typically only pay for it once
Streaming was the perfect replacement for movie rental. As for physical media, streaming feels like a compromise.
She isn’t completely accurate. Physical media is making a comeback.
@Guzmania so it would seem that way, but it's weaponized. Like I believe the Original Lord of the Rings movies were unavailable to rent when the Hobbit trilogy released since they knew interest would be high. You only had the option to buy them digitally.
Agree. I want a physical disc so I don't need the internet to watch a movie or listen to a song. Believe it or not, there are still places on the planet where you can't get cell coverage.
At least my CDs will still work and sound great on my speakers from the 90s.
CDs do sound better than streaming and mp3s and if you have great speaker setup age doesn't matter.
I found so many amazing used AVRs, speakers for less than today's cheap soundbar.
@ they sound a whole lot better. I have a JBL 7.1 system from the 90s and a newish Yamaha receiver. CDs with a good recording sound excellent. When streaming through Apple Music I have to turn on lossless and connect my Mac through thunderbolt to my receiver. We went from high quality listening to compressed Bluetooth passive listening.
That is why I still buy CD's and rip them. Nothing in streaming comes close to CD audio quality!
@@prateekpanwar646 To be honest, I often end up downloading the songs via WAV or FLAC, despite it being compressed. I do try to find it via higher quality/resolution as much as I can. But to get the official audio source from CDs or online tends to be a 50/50. I thankfully have some CDs, but some of them got stuck in an enclosed CD player and thus got thrown out sadly without my input. I absolutely hate when my family members or people throw out something, not realizing that type of CD/discs are no longer manufactured anymore and can be lost to time if you ask me.
@@rikkidgermano9640 CD quality streamers do. And then there's 24-bit.
That kid robot death is just another example of why free and open source is better. People should have the option of putting their own OS and software on the robot to keep it going as long as they want.
They are trying to open source it fyi
@ru2225 That's great!
Better? Are you going to support it?
It ain't all rainbows
@@freedonx someone will support it
@@freedonx You a corpo?
It is pretty funny that that Boston Dynamics robot was programmed to act like it injured its nuts when it fell down.
Injuring its nonexistent nuts 🤣
I noticed that too 🤣🤣🤣
That’s very transphobic; not all men have nuts.
Or maybe it sprained its groin muscle. Either way, I've happened to experience both in my life (meaning the "nuts thing" as well). 😀 + 😞
I read your comment right when 4:19 this happened 😂😂
RIP Apple Vision Pro 2024 - 2024
Have you tried it? It’s the future
Who said it died? They sold more than they planned and yes it was an overpriced v1
@@Rayman96 Apple vision pro is the future, or mixed reality? What did you use it for and what problems did it solve for you
Found the poor
I am confident people will still use them in public.
Companies should be obligated to open-source their code once devices stop receiving updates.
That's what I would love to see companies do, but they refuse to. I don't know what's holding them back, other than the god awful copyright system.
@SuperFlashDriverLiability concerns, I suspect.
I remember that's what the "Stop Killing Games" EU initiative was aiming to do. Make companies release the server binaries for always-online games, so people could physically own games after the service ends.
@@LadyDeirdre Mmm, I guess. If that's what it is then, then why not blackout the ones the public shouldn't know about like personal names and addresses and such??? I don't know.
There would be practical problems with that. The technology may be commercially licensed from third parties. Also when a company goes bankrupt there may be no one around to arrange for open sourcing. Personally I would find it a win if companies were forced to more actively inform their customers of the risks of their cloud based products.
To anyone with a car thing: there’s a project online that brings it back to life. It's called desk thing, it’s fairly easy to set up and makes it so much more feature-rich.
I thought the same thing when watching this video. One of the recommended videos was even aboit repurposing the Car Thing.
i think they made it open source
i wish i had a car thing, like your saying that i can get an external monitor for my laptop? no its not ewaste
Wish I had thought about looking into alternatives before I trashed it 😮💨😭
What a terrible name
Damn, Chromecast? They're greedy af for discontinuing that.
Show me a tv that doesn’t already have it built in nowadays.
@@blzt3206 Just get a Roku lol
Sure modern TVs have it but not all people have that. I bought a 1080p TV from auction for $20 and the Chromecast gave it Android TV with mirroring capabilities. Plus, built in TV software can become bloated/laggy after some time.
And certain TVs have airplay from Apple.
@@blzt3206I mean, please do. I’d prefer not to have a smartTV that’s riddled with crappy OS software and needs an always-on connection to deliver ads right on my TV.
Don't forget: 2024 also saw the death of Online play for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. No more tourneys in Smash Bros Wii U, no more Ghost Races in the Wii U version of Mario Kart 8, No more GTS and online trades in Pokémon Gen 6 and Gen 7, and millions of user-created levels in the first Super Mario Maker are forever lost.
Nintendo should've been boycotted into non-existence years ago.
@@Ou8y2k2There are many many companies worse than Nintendo.
This to
@@RodolfoAmbriz What a great way to think about companies ripping off customers. No one will ever be held accountable with this logic 😄
"bUt ThErE aRe WorSE ComPaNiEs OuT tHere 🤤"
@ Im not saying Nintendo or any other massive corporation or small family owned business is not accountable for doing things anyone can consider bad; I'm saying personally I wouldn't red flag Nintendo first.
3:56 actually after spotify had some pressure the Car Thing source files was released and now the Car Thing is a Car mod (or with a open source mod - desk thing, can be a desk... thing), with users able to load custom firmware onto it
Uh what didn’t u tell me this sooner 😡
I never should have sold mines😥
They are really cool, wish I bought one when they were 90% off
It was actually open source the whole time, its just a potato
@@Revmotif There's a reason you still found a buyer lmao
a hardware that requires subscription is a redflag. instant e waste
I still burn CD's and iTunes, definitely not dead
You may need to rewatch that segment.
same here I still use itunes to burn my cd's. however, since alot of newer pc are ditching optical drives. there still alternatives to the apple super drive if you're using a mac. there are external drives available in the market. also, there are a few 5.25 inch external enclosures in the market as well.
I burn CD's from UA-cam, using a special program. My car plays CD's, and all my computers.
@@zyxw2000 lucky you because most new cars have ditched the cd player for Carplay. it a shame that there is no longer a tool to connect a external or portable cd player to your car stereo these days unless you're lucky to have a AUX jack.
@@chrisstory563 Can't you connect one to the hole that was once called the "cigarette lighter?" Anyway my car is 20 years old, and I wouldn't trade it for a very new car with those computerized dashboards. What's Carplay?
DVDs & Blu-rays are miles better than streaming. It doesn't require internet. You can watch it whenever you want and the best thing is they can't take it away from you or alter it. A good example is what Amazon Prime did to it's a wonderful life. They removed once the most important scenes of the whole movie giving context for the rest or the story. Don't you just hate it when you're watching something on Netflix then it leaves, and then you can't watch it again? If you have it on disk, you can watch it anytime you want.
I agree, and I bought a streaming only movie from Amazon about ten years ago, and the copyright owner, (as in the studio), pulled it from Amazon. I lost the movie and my money. I haven't purchased a streaming movie since, and I never will!
I will never convert to streaming all of my entertainment.
I still prefer physical media that I actually own.
And when that physical media is useless due to bitrot like old physical video games are starting to suffer from? It's cool you just lose it all?
@@kidShibuyano, I have 100s of CDs still, but I RIP them to mp3. Then store them on the cloud so I can stream them on my phone.
@@markanthony1481 especially when streaming is ridden with ads
@@StarFleet_Tech1701 i love this cause then youre not dependent on a company except whoever owns the cloud you store them in!
Optical media don't suffer from bitrot as there is no contact between the media and the read interface. Since their made of polymers which don't readily break down, optical media such as DVD and CD could remain operational for over a hundred years if stored properly. @@kidShibuya
This is why you never subscribe to Google Services other than Google Drive. It’s not a matter of if, but when they would discontinue it.
I use google drive, but have everything backed up locally on external drives as well... because I have no trust is google keeping any project open.
I don't see them ever discontinuing Google Drive. People pay them to store data which Google then sifts through for anything interesting.
When they would discontinue soon, they would already tell you that, to give you time to back everything up to put somewhere else.
What about GMail? Unless you mean subscribe as in pay, in which case nvm
@@AngelTorres-fj3lu GMail won't be going anywhere either for the same reason as google drive. They get too much out of scanning all incoming and outgoing emails.
What kind of sick freak films their kids for TikTok while breaking the news that their favorite toy is going to die?
😂
The same freak that bought them this device, instead of spending time with them or getting them friends or a sibling.
@@GlobexCorporationHank'getting them a sibling' 🤣
Surplus humans, a waste of carbon
@@GlobexCorporationHank or getting them a dog
"who needs an optical drive anymore?"
Me: still developing PS1 games as a hobby
games are bad for you!
Moxie teaches children the concept of death and loss
Tah Dont drink that
Blood oxygen measurement is still available outside USA so it’s not discontinued.
she meant you can't buy from Apple. You can always buy any dead tech from eBay and the likes.
@@AnnamalaibatshaIf you buy a new Apple Watch outside the US from an Apple Store, the feature is enabled. The patent issue only affects watches sold in the US
@@Annamalaibatsha That's... What? Reread the comment.
Still not a good reason to buy an Apple product. Not unless your worse than a Jonestown Koolaid fan.
@@shakesfirst24432006 called, they want their weird “Apple is a cult” thing back.
5:21 Genuinely sad. However where theres dead tech, there’s always some enterprising modders, and coders that find ways to revive dead tech.
There is nothing sad about tech dying. Literally nothing. Go touch grass.
@@bobmcbobbington9220That's not exactly insightful. Some of these kids are young enough to be unable to discern sentience. You might feel differently when some company makes media of your parents, your children, or your own childhood disappear. You really don't have any problem with your 50K car bricking in 3 months? Speaking of touching grass, understand that no one is impressed with that mentally challenged edgelord nonsense. Don't speak of common sense and cogent thinking when you demonstrate neither.
@@bobmcbobbington9220That's not exactly insightful. Some of these kids are young enough to be unable to discern sentience. You might feel differently when some company makes media of your parents, your children, or your own childhood disappear. You really don't have any problem with your 50K car bricking in 3 months? Speaking of touching grass, understand that no one is impressed with that short bus - worthy edgelord nonsense. Don't speak of common sense and cogent thinking when you demonstrate neither.
Disappear
Bricking
The Jamboard was really impressive. The features it had were incredible!
Definitely not for regular people.
I work in tech and I worked at a company that had several of these. Their capabilities were really impressive. They were able to do WAY more than you’d think. It was basically a giant tablet with a fairly unique way of interacting with it that required learning the device to get the most out of it.
If you just use it like a whiteboard you’re not really getting much out of it.
I think it may be an ahead of its time kind of device. I think we are going to see these kinds of things again in the future.
I see a lot of flourish, but no landing. Could you please explain what these 'Fancy Features' are you speak of?
@ I haven’t used one in several years. It was closer to having a giant iPad with procreate than just a whiteboard.
Multiple rooms in different locations can create on the same board at the same time for a more fluid remote experience. Also, the board itself was shared across the call to each room.
I’m a software engineer in Silicon Valley. The rooms with these were coveted. They allowed for better sharing and easier manipulation of data. People in another room in another state or another country could make adjustments to what the other room of people was doing.
You’ve seen an artist use procreate? It’s like magic. You’ve seen a regular person use procreate? For them it’s like a child with a piece of paper and a pen.
There was a learning curve. But, what it could do was impressive.
I think it was the Jam board. I don’t know how many of these online digital whiteboard devices there were.
You may want to look for videos here on UA-cam that break down capabilities. You’ll likely get more out of that.
Could you be a little more cryptic?
Ahh yeah, in my private school we used Promethean Boards, which some of the ones I did look up were discontinued in the mid 2010s. They were one heck of a cool projector, and I'm sure they had a ton of features. But considering they were close to $5,000+ dollars, and took up an entire wall to set up, I unfortunately could not get one. But using projects to project your inputs and outputs is still a cool idea if you ask me.
The physical Jamboards were great, just one example - import your slide as a background then get your attendees (remote or in-person) to mark them up.
We also used them as selfie-stations for events to grab a record of who attended. Take a selfie and then ask them to write a note against their picture with what they hope to achieve from the session.
They were great for getting attendees on their feet and engaging with the course materials. Sorry to see it go.
Thanks for being a REAL human voice and host!!!
Yes
"Who needs an optical drive anymore?"
Me: recently built a PC and put a BluRay drive
that must have been a pretty old pc case then, no case today and even 10 years before use disc trays anymore
fractal pop cases still have slots for disk drives
@ found a fractal design case that still had one. Fractal Focus G, bought it new from Amazon last year
To be fair, how do you install the Operating System without a disc drive?
@@IAmNotAFunguy USB Stick. I installed my OS with a USB drive even though I have an optical drive
No point using Google products at this point. Outside of Gmail
Which you only use if you want Google to suck up all your data
I’ve already moved to Proton just in case. The only reason I have a Google account at all now is UA-cam.
I think you posted this on a Google platform
Physical media, no subscriptions, no bullsh€€t.
$800 for a robot friend that doesn’t function well?!?
Bruh, get your kid/s to go outside and start getting friends! Teach them to be social!
I have spoken to a 16 yo kid lately and he said that he preferred to talk to AI about his problems rather than talking to a real human being / adults. Reason: he is not agreeable with anyone who disagree / thumbs down to his thinking, prefer to be delulu.
@@J.K.Stockholm that kid is already beyond saving. You can tell he watches too much "brain rot" content.
But I have money but no sense of human nature, so...
🤦😑 The robot functioned great. That's literally why the kids were so upset it was gonna stop working.
@@J.K.Stockholm As a 16 year old myself, we often make fun of people like that. But trust me, not all of us are like that LOL
I dont think kids should have that deep of a connection with a robot.
Think about the adults who can't go without a cell phone.
CD is still alive and kicking hard, it's the DVD 1:40
DVDs are a great way to archive some of your digital files. And Blu-ray burners are still compatible with macOS. Still rip CDs even to this day.
I so wish that Sony would somehow bring SACD and hybrid SACD/CD back to the market. A music format that still sounds great today.
I work on ATM machine vendor, and yeah we still use cd for copying the ATM machine journals.
CD sales actually increased this year, in both the US and UK.
@@ElderStatesman I agree. but the thing I love about DVDs, is that even if you do widescreen/full screen on it, you will get a perfect 4 by 3 aspect ratio that looks perfect and at 480p on some movies, they still look really good even 20/25 years after they were released on that medium.
We just need to remember that XAI767 is going global and that it is going to change the world with it's technology... So I'm buying more😊
Did it just hold its crutch 😭😂 4:21
💀💀💀💀💀💀
00:04 - 2024 saw the demise of several tech products, including Fossil smartwatches.
00:48 - Apple discontinued key products and features in 2024.
01:33 - Apple and other companies phase out physical media and services.
02:16 - Several Google apps and services were discontinued in 2024.
02:59 - Google discontinued Chromecast app, replaced by a more expensive device.
03:41 - Major tech failures in 2024 include overheating batteries and discontinued hardware.
04:26 - Emerging humanoid robots aim to replace human interaction.
05:08 - Funding issues led to the shutdown of a beloved robot toy.
Google Graveyard added some more 😅
Yup, and making more loyal Google Fans to abandon the "Google" ship too.
True, but I think Google expects most of the ideas that come from its employees to eventually fail because it uses the "throw everything at the wall to see if it sticks" method of finding new hits. And Google is able to allow its people to take chances and create moonshot products because Google makes so much money.
@@BryonLettermanthat’s not a good company method, I’d rather see fewer ideas with solid planning and dedication. Consumers don’t like seeing their products and services discontinued after a few years.
You know how good a reporter Bridget is, you see her thumbnail, you click instantly it's a reflex!
I just met her a couple of weeks ago and I'm so happy. I love her style.
INORITE!!! If it’s CNET and she ain’t in it then I’m not interested.
I clicked because I didn't realize CNET was still alive
It's heart breaking that the kids have to say goodbye to their AI friend.
I am quite sad at the end of the chromecast, I love how versatile they are since they are essentially a reskinned android device so you can install any app you wanted as long as it had Google tv support, the software lives on in smart tvs and the new streamer, but it still makes me feel bad at the death of such a whimsical little device, RIP chromecast
well amazon, roku, and apple had their own brand of USB streaming sticks. competition can be such a drag.
Use an old computer.
You can still buy cd drives, burners and cds themselves.
ya and you can buy food too
@@AMPProf When was food discontinued?
Fun fact: Redbox didn't shutdown its kiosk. It only shutdown its websites and stopped paying the services that its kiosk used. Like the stores and its CC processors;).
1:57 I literally paused ⏸️ my tv and looked for my phone to come here to the comments section to explain the laugh 🤣 I release when she said with the "straightest" face ever, "Since I'm already breaking the hearts of 90s kids". She literally stared into my soul and said that to me 🤣😭💀👏🏾
i was seriously sad for moxie. it was like the one good thing that didn't deserve to die this year.
Sure thing, dude, as it indoctrinates your kids without telling you.
Thank you for your humorous perspective on this year's winners and losers, Bridget.❤
Well I know an browser extension that just died, Honey.
Honestly it almost never worked for me. It always said "You have the best deal"
You forgot the awful Rabbit and Humane AI Pin
I still use & need physical media.
Actually, there's a group around hacking Spotify's Car Thing so they do other Things.
And this is why tech must not be dependent on internet connectivity.
from $56 to $130 for a chromecast is actually ridiculous
4:50 you’re talking about this $800 developmental toy to help kids learn as being expensive.
Haven’t you REPEATEDLY shown $700+ transformer toys like they were some awesome thing everyone should get?
This thing for kids actually helps them learn. They’re about the same price and this kid’s toy has WAY more functionality for about the same price you’re balking at.
Seems odd.
Bro worked there
lol
You're gonna miss your moxie huh?
@ yeah. Absolutely. I installed a fleshlight in mine. I like the way it cries.
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wtf google! going backwards!! 😡 on the chromecast . I have a gen1 and still working.
this one is different, they didn't "discontinue" the product, they "discontinued" the brand, going for a different name
@ guess I will be sticking to my gen 1,3,4 chromecast till they stop working . hoping it will last for 20 more years . 😉
@@nat0106951 again, as I already said before they didn't discontinue the product, rather the brand
it's the same product under a new name
it is LITERALLY the same product with another name
You're delivering these cheesy lines with such good presentation skills, that it makes them fun to watch. It's not easy to say a deliver boring news in a snappy and engaging way.
0:33 all rappers on earth have been very quiet💀💀💀💀💀
I hope society as a whole will learn at some point, that you should never get products, that only work connected to a cloud. Basically anything, that requires internet access should not be considered. This includes games, which demand an internet connection. Because just as physical products, when those servers go down, you can't play those games anymore, despite having all the necessary data and hardware.
I tell you, one day there will be the first car, only working with an internet connection. And I believe it's gonna bomb hard.
When Windows 10 will not be supported next year anymore, I will keep using it offline and move all my online business to Linux, not dealing with Microsoft and it's shenanigans anymore. For that, I am also glad I am working with an old offline Photoshop version, because sticking to Adobe's greed and their cloud requirements would not let me do that. Using cloud stuff doesn't only mean, services can seize any moment, but that the provider has full control over everything you can and can't do with the service. And who wants that? I am giving the finger to Microsoft and Adobe for their crap, and with older stuff I remain perfectly capable of doing what I want to do.
So does include Bitcoin/crypto also?
@@realSamAndrew It's fake money 😆 only idiots spend real money on "monopoly money"
Had no idea Chromecast was killed this year. I've had one for over a decade now, and while admittedly I use it less thanks to Smart TVs, it's still handy now and then. Shame.
@@nerdrooted Chromecast is good if you want to keep your TV offline. The apps you're casting from will get better updates and performance than your smart TV will.
This lady’s energy is aura ❤
I definitely click on videos with her in it. She has a good vibe
cringe.
For Moxie they did do an update within the week that opens it up to connecting to another server. It looks like the team is trying to keep it functional even if at a basic level for its users. Not sure if they are going to open it up or not but its promising and they are trying. I don't think they wanted this to happen and it was unplanned.
Love your presenting style on this excellent video of tech that died in 2024. Hope you and your family have a fabulous Christmas Bridget 🎄❤️ see you next year.
Physical media is making a comeback. More and more people are remembering what it meant to actually own movies and music versus renting it with high subscription fees and subpar quality.
It’s weird. We used rodent movies before buying them to see if we liked them enough. Now it seems like some of us are watching on streaming first then deciding if streaming is enough, or if we like it at a dvd, blue ray. Or 4k level.
@@CMFrey-ii5tx Don't know about you, but I've recently started renting some DVDs from my local video store of movies and shows I don't currently own like people would do in the good old days. I'm still refusing to pay a single penny towards streaming.
I honestly think see looked up some doomer and out dated articals before the streamming bubble popped.
Don’t let them convince you discs are dead
Intro of this video is wild, "hey you didn't die, congratulations!"
Just saw your videos and bought XAI767 yesterday.....its up 24% today talk about timing......Thanks
"The age of instant messaging is officially dead"
Uhhh no tf it isn't. There's like hundreds of IM apps now. Hundreds of them.
That’s exactly the problem. Literally all of those apps are closed and don’t talk to each other. And many are tied to other services.
@@CanIHasThisName Literally no different than how it was in 2005. AIM talked to AIM. YIM talked to YIM. MSN talked to MSN. Unless you had something like Pidgin which was accomplished by reverse engineering each service and wasn't officially sanctioned by any of them.
@@tennessee.tiger1988 You say it was no different and then point out how it was drastically different. It was possible to have a single client that unified all of them. That’s the difference. This even included things like Facebook chat for a good while. Windows phones used have all these various types of IM integrated in the native messaging app.
Now it’s just impossible. You can’t have a single service unifying multiple different ones, you need to have all those different services installed and again, most of them are tied to other services.
3:23 We now have character ai 😭
2:10 the door closing sound effect lolol
Gosh i love this series! Thanks Bridget and CNET!
Best buy made a bad mistake for taking out the physical media.
iTunes is still available on the App Store, can someone explain?
I'd like clarification, as well. I've only used it on Windows, but, historically, there was a standalone installer and an app installer on Microsoft Store. At the time of writing, the iTunes store is still accessible in the iTunes app for Windows. Moreover, Microsoft Store still lists the iTunes app.
iTunes isn’t gone. I still use it to purchase music and I still rip CDs to my 2024 iMac.
A lot of these I'd never heard of.
That's actually really upsetting seeing that with the kids and their dying robot.
Press “F” to Pay Your Respect 😏😂
holy npc comment
@JerryBerry1 🤫😋
F
Thanks for the XAI767 update! I am loving my XAI767!
Google podcasts is shutting down??!
Fools… This was actually my favorite podcast app.. on the other hand I can’t have too little Google products on my phone..
Love your sarcastic attitude about all of it!
4:31 IT'S GOT A CUTE LITTLE CIRCLE HEAD !! PLEASE LEAVE IT LIKE THIS !! STOP MAKING ROBOTS TO LOOK LIKE HUMANS !! LET THEM LOOK LIKE FUNKY COOL LIL ROBOTS !!
3:47 shoutout to whoever was playing Henny & Gingerale in the whip
1:01 Pay right away. 🤣
You guys neglected to acknowledge that car thing is not E-Waste and that you can still save it with custom software.
Have my SuperDrive (purchased in 2013) connected to a brand new Mac mini M4 Pro. Still works perfectly.
When I heard that the SuperDrive was discontinued, I searched the internet and found a spare, just in case mine ever dies.
I got mine 3 years ago and now I’m so glad I have one.
the usb superdrive actually hasn’t worked for years because it needed help from macOS since it used only one usb port instead of two, but that was removed long ago
Who needs Apple to listen to music when you have CDs?
Who needs vehicles to move around then world when you have legs?
@@CanIHasThisName Are you going to walk to a city 3 hours away from you?
This is the second CNET video I've ever watched and it's the second one by Bridget Carey. I really like her takes on things so far.
Great annual video
I have watched Bridget for years and she is so real😂
Why is she gleefully dancing on the grave of old technology ? Its off putting
“Hey kid, your Moxie robot is going to die”
My kid who plays outside: “Oh no! Anyway”
I see Bridget and suddenly I started to think it’s “Friday” already!
Basically for everyone taking the rest of the week off
Bridget! Thank you for the farewell of 2024. Not seeing you in the last couple of videos, I was like where is she? Love your sense of humor. Merry Christmas 🎄 to you and your family and all of Cnet!
GameStop is obviously going to go bankrupt.
A few weeks ago GameStop sold its stores in Italy.
That ICQ which died was just a service called ICQ. The original at some point merged with AIM. That ICQ is just the name after a relaunch after being bought, but with a completely different service.
I stopped using icq but it will be missed
Give your audio engineers a raise
I legitimately teared up seeing how upset those kids were over Moxie shutting down. I truly hope a solution can be found to keep it going. 😢💔
The Moxie one is genuinely so sad.
iTunes still exists on iOS.
I buy - yes, buy - music from there all the time. Though I think purchasing music should be moved to the Music app like movies and shows on the TV app.
I also buy my music, and damn those who don't.
California just passed a law where you can’t even call digital purchases “buying” anymore. It’s more accurately called leasing.
When their servers go offline all your purchases are gone .. just like that therapy robot.
I think the law was aimed at Steam video game purchases, but I believe it’s farther reaching.
That's technically the iTunes Store. And yes it still exists, but who knows, maybe it will also unfortunately shut down when we least expect it.
I can still download iTunes for Windows from Apple's website, even if there's no app for it in the Microsoft store
Apple will more than likely just close down the store unfortunately 🙁
Dang, Chromecast? Wild. That Moxie one is sad.
notice how u say moxie is expensive for $800
and yet your perfectly willing to give thousands and thousands to apple
People need smartphones and computers to do their jobs. They don't need AI robot companions. Tell everyone you never leave your mom's basement without telling everyone. 🤦🙄
Next year bring back the cnet update, it was so useful
Re CDs being dead not quite, it's holding steady and in some countries sales have gone up, a reason is audio quality, streaming is still compressed audio but a CD is uncompressed. Take any CD with your favourite song and then compare with Spotify, Apple Music, UA-cam Music. CD audio is noticeably better.
According to some metrics nearly half of CD buyers are in their mid 20s.
Now DVDs, BluRays are a different story, they are going the way of the Dood.
5:13
😂 i can feel that Boy did not enjoying from that Boring Robot.
I’m sure those kids whose parents bought a $800 toy has some more funds for something better
You say that as if people at large aren't spending like double that money in phones each year, 800 bucks for a toy like that is a steal in comparison (if it actually works as promised of course)
Or maybe the parents just bought an $800 toy because it was advertised to help shy kids come out of their shell or go through difficult times, and they felt that if we can spend $1,000 on a new phone every other year, they can buy their kid a little robot pal who listens to them and gives them advice from the cloud.
Maybe put your kid into social situations for free instead of wasting $800, maybe in a club?
Gonna miss Redbox. They were great for rural areas where internet connection was spotty.
0:27 no u r not . u r elliot from scrubs hehe
The same thought was running in my head, I was just waiting to find the comment