Complete tech farewell: Skype, home button and a few other things that have disappeared since 2025.

Apple, on the other hand, continued to close the circle of hardware nostalgia: the last iPhone with a physical ‘home button’ went down in history. It’s a small thing on paper, but a big thing in the fingers, especially if you’ve had that one click as a ‘reset’ of everything for years.

Google has also come to the fore, and exactly where it hurts: with home gadgets that should last. The story also mentions the ‘cutting’ of smart functions on some Nest thermostats, which is a reminder that a smart device is not always and permanently smart.

If you’ve ever installed apps outside of Google Play, you’ve probably gone through Amazon’s Android Appstore at least once. And he is among the things that have died out or changed significantly. The same applies to memory brands: the list also mentions the withdrawal of Crucial from part of the consumer segment, which is a trifle for most, but important news for those who arrange PC configurations.

And yes, even the ‘small’ details of the user experience are a theme: there is also mention of changing the legendary ‘blue’ system error to a black variant, a symbolic move that signals a ‘new era, a new color of panic’. And somewhere in the background there is another reminder that nothing is forever: AOL’s dial up is going away, and with that the sound of an Internet generation is really disappearing.

The point of such lists is not only nostalgia, but also the habit of saving what is important to you in time: export chats, backup photos, save passwords and check what your home automation is actually doing. Because once it goes out, č there is often no ‘return to the old’. By the way, in 2025 some applications for ‘save for later’ čreading, like Pocket, were also shut down, so that is also a good lesson to not rely on one single service and read everything you are interested in right away.