Ars Deathwatch 2016: Companies and tech whose time may have come
Ars picks the losers of next year who are out of cash, relevance, time, or control.
2015 list:”
- Yahoo!
- HTC
- Blackberry OS
- Groupon
- Rdio/Tidal
- Encryption backdoors
“The Deathwatch took a holiday last New Year’s, but our 2014 picks proved to be good for another 12 months of pain: RadioShack, BlackBerry, Zynga, HTC, and AMD. RadioShack, our most sickly suspect, restructured and then sold some of its stores to Sprint, closing the rest. While it still exists as a brand in some locations, the company has essentially ceased to exist. We rule that RadioShack has earned a toe-tag, while the others…well, they’re largely in the same delicate condition they were in when we last did this list.”
Stephen
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