Killed by Apple

Apple has officially shoved a whole pile of old favorites into the tech afterlife: the giant Mac Pro computer, the last iPhone with the old-school Home button, the Clips video app, Apple’s own split-payment service, the long-lived USB SuperDrive disc reader, the infamous Touch Bar, the Lightning charging cable, and even My Photo Stream. On paper, it’s a clean-up. In the comments, it became a full-blown group therapy session with jokes, complaints, and a little applause.

The loudest split? Some readers basically said, good riddance. One commenter argued Apple keeps making ruthless but smart calls, praising the company for killing off old plugs and oddball extras so people can use fewer weird cables and adapters. But others zoomed in on the emotional damage: not just lost hardware, but vanished little features people actually used. One reader mourned a forgotten QuickTime playback control and turned it into a broader warning about trusting built-in apps to do everything—because one day, the company can just yank the feature and move on.

And yes, the community also got distracted by the headline itself. One person crowned “Killed by Apple” the “Nobel Prize in Clickbait Titles” for 2026, while another sneered that the whole thing was just another “vibeslopped website” on Hacker News. So the real drama wasn’t just what Apple killed—it was whether the product purge was brilliant housekeeping, petty feature theft, or simply irresistible internet bait.