You probably already know this, but Amazon does a lot of different things. It sells products, it makes products, and it’s a major provider of cloud services to both the consumer and enterprise markets. It’s in the tech industry, the fashion industry, the art industry, and the entertainment industry. I guess it’s also a bookseller, too.
11 things Amazon shut down without you noticing
is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade.
I'm sure you all remember the Fire Phone
Amazon has always done a lot of things, and that means trying a lot of things that don’t always pan out. The Fire Phone is a great example: Amazon tried to get into the lucrative smartphone business, but it never gave buyers a compelling reason to choose its device. And so the Fire Phone went nowhere, and a year later sold out for good. It was a strong enough lesson that Amazon apparently decided to close down a number of other hardware projects, too.
But that was one of Amazon’s bigger projects, one that was covered thoroughly from start to finish. A lot of Amazon’s other projects have come and gone without the masses noticing. So here’s a brief list of some of the many things that Amazon has shut down in the (somewhat) recent past, most of which seem to have either arrived or departed without much attention.
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