The year that is about to come to an end has been "regular" for Apple. The Cupertino company is not in decline, far from it, as much as some insist on predicting over and over again its next debacle. But it is also true that it has not been as good a year as the previous ones. Hardware sales are clearly stagnant, its flagship has dropped in sales and profits have reversed for the first time since 2003. The lack of innovation is already a constant indictment and despite the success of the iPhone 7, it is evident. Meanwhile, the company is increasingly cornered by its peculiar tax policy, which, however, is shared by other tech giants to pay less taxes than they should.
But despite all this, its economic, financial and commercial health is the envy of many other brands, and In the midst of the storm Apple does not show the slightest fear of stopping producing any type of product. The reasons are diverse, from staff and resource readjustments to technologies that are already becoming obsolete; or simply because they no longer play an important role in the long-term goals of the company. Whatever the reason, These are the products that Apple has shelved in 2016.
Third generation Apple TV
It was one of Apple's biggest losses in 2016, however, it was also one of the least painful. After the appearance of the fourth generation Apple TV, with your own operating system, your app store, Siri integration, etc. the previous version no longer had a place in this "new way of watching television". Unfortunately, it was a very affordable product that could still have served (in fact, it does) many, many users.
11,6-inch MacBook Air
It is clear that Apple's new ultraportable, the 12 ″ MacBook Retina, is destined to replace the Air range, but we did not expect such a quick replacement, at least not without the new one lowering its exaggerated price. The MacBook Air is more powerful than the MacBook, but design has won the battle and has claimed its first victimApple has discontinued the 11,6-inch MacBook Air (now only available in batches for certain educational programs). The next to fall will undoubtedly be his older brother, who I doubt will exceed the 2017 border.
MagSafe
Directly related to the notebook segment, and although it is not a product in itself, the MagSafe connector has received the final blow. Now we only find it in that 13 ″ MacBook Air, but it is nothing more than a residual circumstance whose very survival depends on the agony time of that computer. The MagSafe has clearly been replaced by the new Thunderbolt / USB-C standard, a more useful connector, but one that has lost that magnetized feature that we loved so much.
CinemaDisplay
Also monitors have been abandoned by Apple in 2016 and replaced by an alliance with LG. Thunderbolt Cinema Displays and LED Cinema Displays no longer exist in apple stores. The truth is that their manufacture was abandoned in 2013, but now they are dead and buried.
iPad Air
With the launch of the iPad Air 2, ssurvived as the most affordable device However, with the arrival in the spring of the 9,7-inch iPad Pro model, that function had already been fulfilled so it said goodbye to us forever.
AirPort Time Capsule, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Express
In November, Apple ended the wireless router division. It is still possible to acquire them but they seem destined to disappear completely in the more than immediate future. Perhaps if it had moderated prices somewhat, it would have been a more successful product because its performance is simply spectacular..
Apple Car
Apple's car It has never existed, and it seems that neither will. The "Titan Project" has led to the development of autonomous driving software.
Downgrades to iOS 9
Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), stopped signing the latest version of iOS 9 So, everyone who has updated to iOS 10 will no longer be able to go back, at least not without the help of the jailbreak.
The Game Center app
He survives through games, but this attempt to create a community of gamers on iOS saw his application cease to exist.
The Apple «Store»
Apple does not want its stores to be seen only as points of sale, but as spaces for meeting and exchanging knowledge. For this reason, in May the surname "Store" disappeared.
"OS X"
It's just a name change, now replaced by macOS, more homogeneous to other operating systems.
