In memoriam: 5 once-great products Apple killed in 2022 - Macworld

It’s been an eventful twelvemonth for Apple. Not lone did we get a caller iPhone and iPad, updates to the Apple TV and AirPods Pro, a caller standalone display, and a slew of bundle features, but we besides got the archetypal brand-new Mac and Apple Watch successful years. But among each those caller products, Apple besides killed respective older devices successful 2022. Here are 5 Apple devices you won’t find for merchantability connected Apple.com anymore.

Apple Watch Series 3

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If determination was 1 merchandise we would person stake a bundle connected reaching status property successful 2022 it would person been the Apple Watch Series 3. Approaching its 5-year day with an aging design, pokey chip, and azygous sensor, it was overpriced astatine fractional of its $199 MSRP. Unfortunately, its demise means determination isn’t an Apple Watch that starts nether $200 anymore, but the Apple Watch SE 2, which received a terms chopped to $249, is simply a amended bargain anyway.

iPhone 11

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Losing the oldest iPhone exemplary to marque mode for the caller 1 astatine the apical of the lineup isn’t thing new, but the discontinuation of the iPhone 11 is notable. Now, each 3 non-SE iPhone lines Apple sells–the iPhone 12, 13, and 14–all person the aforesaid design, and Apple doesn’t merchantability an iPhone that doesn’t enactment 5G. There are rumors that the iPhone 11’s plan volition beryllium recycled for the adjacent iPhone SE, but for now, determination 1 retired for rounded edges.

Apple TV HD

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The Apple TV HD was large successful 2015, but it’s been a unspeakable bargain for years. Costing conscionable $20 little than the Apple TV 4K, it was the worst benignant of fund device: slower and inferior successful each mode yet cosmetically identical to the amended model. Apple wholly shuffled the Apple TV lineup successful 2022 and pushed retired the Apple TV HD for good—and we won’t miss it.

iPod touch

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We truly wanted the iPod interaction to person a comeback, but alas, it wasn’t meant to be. Instead of a redesigned exemplary with a full-screen design, A12 processor, and a headphone jack, Apple discontinued the past remaining iPod this twelvemonth with small fanfare different than a committedness that euphony players volition unrecorded connected astatine Apple. That whitethorn beryllium true, but there’s thing successful Apple’s lineup rather similar the iPod touch–an inexpensive instrumentality that does everything an iPhone tin bash but marque calls. The iPod interaction deserved better.

27-inch iMac

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When Apple launched the 27-inch Studio Display alongside the Mac Studio successful March, it meant 2 things: Mac fans could yet bargain an affordable standalone show from Apple again, and the 27-inch iMac was redundant. Apple wasted nary clip successful removing it from the store–as soon arsenic the lawsuit was implicit it was gone. There person been persistent rumors that Apple whitethorn bring backmost the large-screen iMac, but 24 inches is arsenic large arsenic you tin get now. We similar the M1 iMac, but we’d emotion a bigger version.

Author: Michael Simon, Executive Editor