Last Week in Tech: Reports of MS Paint’s death have been greatly exaggerated
Shuffle (and Nano) off to Buffalo
A snapshot from happier times, when iPod Nanos danced freely and without care.
Apple
If you’re still clinging to an iPod Shuffle or an iPod Nano, your device is nowofficially discontinued. They will still work, obviously, but there won’t be any new versions and they now join the Zune in the catacombs where dead MP3 players go to rest.
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Few tech products have been declared “dead” more times than Adobe Flash, but this time it’s totally, actually, really, definitely, officially dead as of 2020. Let’s have a moment of silence for that time I spent learning how to code ActionScript in college.
Super Model 3
You could actually see a Tesla Model 3 driving around in the wild now that production models have been released into the world.
Tesla
The $35,000 electric car Tesla promised so long ago is now officially out in the world. The waitlist is still massive and if you order one today, you can probably expect to get it some time in 2019, and that’s if Elon Musk’s production estimates are on point.
Eye robot
Earlier in the week, iRobot CEO Colin Angle mentioned the fact that camera-equipped Roomba robotic vacuums could make maps of customers’ homes that could then be sold to third-party companies to improve their smart home devices. This, of course, led to loud backlash and forced Angle to publicly state that iRobot will not sell customer data.
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