Rumors started circulating in March of this year that Nintendo was planning to discontinue this five-year-old, kid-friendly game console, which the company rushed to deny. The rumors resurfaced at the beginning of November, at which point Nintendo issued ambiguously worded statements that it was discontinuing production for the Japanese market and that no more units would be sent to North America in the company's current fiscal year -- for Nintendo, that means the end of March 2017. So while it's not clear if the console is really dead yet, it's obvious we're just waiting for some nails in the coffin. As it's expected to formally unveil its new Nintendo Switch console at CES in January 2017, it's not unexpected, either.

We've reached out to Nintendo for clarification and as yet haven't heard back, Adobe Flash served its purpose in the nascent days of the Web, first providing a way to display video and animation, then a way to turn animation into games (in the form of Shockwave), then a way to lock it down so that content providers would feel safe using it as a distribution format, But now Flash (like many other plug-in technologies) is moribund, insecure and the butt of jokes, and browsers are locking it out, In 2017, Firefox will be turning it off by default, following on the heels of Google disabling it in Chrome for most sites, Safari strongfit designers case for apple iphone 7 plus - white/blue opting for HTML5 in its place when possible and so on, Adobe itself even rebranded its Flash Professional software as Adobe Animate at the end of last year, in part to distance it from its roots and reflect its support of a broader number of standards, Unfortunately, it's still entrenched in software such as custom applications, and those take a l-o-o-o-o-n-g time to displace..

I was never a big fan of 3D TV, at least in its current form. Clearly, not many other people were either: In March, Samsung, the biggest player in 3D TVs, opted to focus on its smart TV capabilities instead of continuing with 3D. As David Katzmaier put it, "Samsung traded 3D for braaains." Since 3D is a shrinking part of the market for TVs, that doesn't bode well for the category. Samsung stopped actively marketing its mirrorless cameras sometime after September 2015, started to leave markets including the UK (Decembger 2015) and Australia (May 2016), disappeared its camera division (it was never officially declared closed, but where is it?), and cancelled its booth for Photokina this year. Its last models are listed as "No longer available" at B&H, among other places. When pressed for comment, Samsung representatives point to the Gear 360 as a sign that they're still in the camera biz. It's sad, as I really liked the NX1, but I wish Samsung would finally put us out of our is-it-or-isn't-it misery already.

I've reached out to Samsung for a more recent comment and haven't strongfit designers case for apple iphone 7 plus - white/blue yet heard back, Apple resurrected its original 4-inch phone size earlier this year, but that's the only one, as far as we know; "compact"now means about 4.6-inch screens, and the new normal is 5 inches, even in price-sensitive regions, Dell is just the latest major manufacturer to pull out of the cheap Android tablet market, Given the shrinking tablet market overall, combined with the shift to higher-margin 2-in-1 laptops running Windows 10, it's just a matter of time..

A Bloomberg story at the end of November suggested that Apple discontinued production of its wireless router/Time Capsule and disbanded the division, and Apple hasn't updated the hardware in several years. Given the plethora of wireless routers and cheap external hard drives, it would make sense for Apple to stop making its own. I contacted Apple for comment and have not yet heard back. When Apple announced its new MacBook Pro laptops this fall, the older Air line emerged relatively unchanged while the new Pro models managed to be even smaller than the former size champ. It's likely that Apple will keep the Air around as an entry-priced model, but will that stand another year?.