12 Worst Tech Murders Of 2012


#7 Oink

Oink was a revolutionary app, born from the head of Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, the famous social news website. The product which rated individual items in various places-like a particular dish in a restaurant- initially created a wave in the market. Around 100,000 download occurred in the first two weeks, later which the company said it is shutting down the service. Later, Kevin Ross’s lab milk, which produced Oink was acquired by Google, along with him. Google then killed the entire service to use his expertise for its social network Google +.

#6 Adobe Flash for Android

The software, which provided millions of users the ability to view multimedia contents and rich internet applications on their mobile phones had announced in July that it won’t be supporting the Android versions beyond 4.0. The announcement came as a part of company’s plans to focus more on native apps and HTML5. The company had announced in the blog post: “There will be no certified implementations of Flash Player for Android 4.1,” and also recommended “uninstalling Flash Player on devices which have been upgraded to Android 4.1.”