Big Tech went on a slaying fling in 2023 . We saw the end of many once - bed products and avail , all get down up into the great dark infernal region of corporate integration . Few companies keep back their knives sheathed , and if this year learn us anything , 2024 is likely to be just as blooming .
This was a high-risk yr to be a technical school worker , and in all probability just as bad to be technical school itself . The keen techlayoff spree extend on from 2022as Silicon Valleytried to snub costsbytossing staff to the curband wipe out any products or services take for too impertinent . As the industry ’s latest fascination with artificial intelligence becomes an straight-out obsession , one can expect we ’ll find even more shallow graves turn over around the campus of Google , Apple , TikTok , Microsoft , and Amazon .
This happens every year , but in 2023 we ensure more than the usual amount of fertile trimming . Big Tech did n’t just murder product people were using , it shuttered services that people depend on . As streaming has continued to refute its initial hope byforcing ads on substance abuser who ca n’t pay a premium , legion services such as Apple Music and Netflix have cut off lower - cost subscription tier .
Google Stadia finally met its end in January this year, but it was just a drop in the bucket for the number of products and services the company killed in 2023.Image: Colleen Michaels (Shutterstock)
If there were a most wanted board hang up in the Silicon Valley sheriff ’s situation , then Google would have the biggest premium on its head . The Mountain View giant has refocused its intact setup on pushing AI products , and that mean other projects got ta go . At thetop of the list is Google Stadia , the company ’s cloud gambling platform thattook a full six monthsbefore the coroner could lodge their full theme . But that ’s just the crest of the berg .
We view the impacts that mega - mergers like the multi - billion Warner Bros. Discovery had on user - end products and content . Not to put too okay a point on it , everything got sorry . Next year , we ’ll startle to see the substantial impact of the$69 billion Microsoft mergerwith Activision Blizzard . Despite exec’sassurances that everything will be just fine , we have a flavour we ’ll just end up with few apps and less contender , all while paying more for degraded experiences .
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