The End of an Era: Discontinued products, services, and defunct companies

[tharpdevenport]

Not a discontinued product, but this seems like a good enough thread:

M&M's is dropping artificial dyes for the candy shell colorations, which could mean no blue or brown colored shells. There are alternative natural dyes, but whether its cost effective or scalable to mass production, time will tell when Mars does the calculations and sources ingredients.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

Not a discontinued product, but this seems like a good enough thread:

M&M's is artificial dyes for the candy shell colorations, which could mean no blue or brown colored shells.

Van Halen will like that

 

[Owain Taggart]

I still have Trillian, which was a great app for unifying most/all of those, and even the standalone ICQ app...but nobody I know is still active on those that I know of, so they're basically unused by me too. I kind of miss them.

Yeah, I remember Trillian. It was a pretty great app for a while, although it suffered a similar fate of many apps, which is the tendency for them to get bloated featurewise.

Not a discontinued product, but this seems like a good enough thread:

M&M's is dropping artificial dyes for the candy shell colorations, which could mean no blue or brown colored shells. There are alternative natural dyes, but whether its cost effective or scalable to mass production, time will tell when Mars does the calculations and sources ingredients.

I'm only surprised it took this long to do it. In Canada, our Smarties ( the candy coated M&M-like candies, not the American chalk-like candies) changed in 2009, some Countries even as far back as 2006.

This could give some idea of what the new M&M colours might look like.

Smarties - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles

In response to shifting trends in consumer preference, new games will be released on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only.

blog.playstation.com

 

[camdudetenger2018]

Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles

In response to shifting trends in consumer preference, new games will be released on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only.

blog.playstation.com

the discs era in everyday lives is officially gone

 

[Owain Taggart]

I am surprised consoles have hung on for as long as they have, given PC gaming has been this way for more than a decade. The only difference is that with PC, it has different markets such as Steam, Epic, and GOG, plus a number bundle sites, thus more choice from which to buy from, whereas a digital-only situation with consoles locks it into the the console's store as the only place to get them.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

For gamers, the fight to ‘save the disc’ is about more than nostalgia

Sony said it will stop releasing new PlayStation games on physical discs in 2028, a move critics say leaves players buying revocable licenses instead of games they truly own.

www.nbcnews.com

I'm not subscribed, so I can't read on, but the article says gamers are asking why video games are going digital exclusive first, before music and video do.