Apple discontinues 27-inch iMac

Source: Apple

It's been around for over 12 years, but now the 27-inch iMac is no more. Apple has removed the listing from its Mac category, leaving the 24-inch Apple Silicon-based iMac on sale. The company launched its new Mac Studio and Studio Display the other day, which it is positioning to replace that iMac instead of a rumoured new large-sized iMac. This just-discontinued model running on Intel's processor first debuted in August 2020, and it had the nano-texture anti-glare display option that the new Studio Display gets.

The iMac was first introduced in 1998, and the 27-inch model first came out in 2009. And as Apple Insider pointed out, it was the first post-Steve Jobs return product. It transitioned to the Intel processor in 2006 until it moved to the ARM-based Apple Silicon architecture in 2021. 

Windows Essentials are no longer available, exisiting installs not supported

Windows Essentials 2012 may seem like and outdated suite of software (made available as an add on) but it did have one application that was used and loved by millions becuase it was simple and effective. I'm talking about Windows Video Maker which as an easy to use and effective video editor, pretty much Microsoft's answer to iMovie but without many bells and whistles.

Many a successful YouTuber's career was likely launched by Windows Video Maker and while I get that Microsoft had to retire Windows Essentials (Including Photo Gallery, Live Writer, OneDrive, Skype) but they never offered a replacement for Video Editor which is a damn shame as it was still the best 'quikc and dirty' way to get video done in a Windows machine. Microsoft seems fixated on Creators and using Windows to make cool things, hopefully they'll surprise us with a new video editor come this March.

Discontinuation of BlackBerry Classic means the end of an era

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The announcement earlier today that BlackBerry would discontinue the BlackBerry Classic in favour of Android powered devices marks an end of an era in the smartphone market. Much considered a throwback to iconic BlackBerry devices, the BlackBerry Classic was launched in 2014 as a device for Blackberry loyalists, businessmen and government users and brought back the iconic QWERTY keyboard.

The BlackBerry Classic showcased the best of what BlackBerry devices had to offer. High-end and innovative hardware with a rock solid QWERTY keyboard typing experience as well as security and no nonsene encryption in heaps and bounds.

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Microsoft stops making the Surface 2, Windows RT likely discontinued

Microsoft has finally given up on its ARM powered Surface 2 tablet. The company confirmed that it is no longer manufacturing its 'iPad Killer' which ran the RT version of Windows which could run Metro apps, but was unable to take advantage of the thousands of classic or legacy Windows Apps.

The Surface and later the Surface 2 (along with the Surface RT operating system) was designed to create low powered (and price competitive) tablets and hybrids which could push Microsoft's productivity-focused apps and services. The Surface Pro, which shares the Surface's kickstand feature, can run Windows applications and will be upgraded to Windows 10. Surface and Surface 2 tablets will note be able to run Windows 10.

Source: The Verge