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The trendline doesn’t look good for hard disk drives

3 months ago
Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analysts

Feature  In early May, independent digital storage analyst Thomas Coughlin shared news of falling sales and revenue in the first quarter of 2025, continuing a trend that started in around 2010. Coughlin cites data from that year showing around 600 million annual hard disk shipments.…

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Google is Killing Android Instant Apps

3 months ago
Google will discontinue its Android Instant Apps feature in December 2025, ending a nearly decade-long experiment that allowed users to try portions of mobile apps without installing them. The feature, rolled out in early 2017, enabled developers to create lightweight app versions under 15 megabytes that could run temporarily on users' devices when they tapped specific links. The feature struggled with low developer uptake due to the technical complexity of creating these stripped-down app versions.

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