The web evolves. In Spain we have practically three decades connecting to the Internet massively and in those years we have seen many changes, both in software and hardware.
We have gone from a text website and hyperlinks to one in which The multimedia content is not essential, is that it is practically everything. And that begins to collect his first victims.
Mozilla, the matrix company of applications as well known as Firefox, has announced the closing from another of your apps, Pocket, A service that allowed to save texts to read later.
These types of tools were very popular 10 or 15 years agoa time when blogs and web portals were the essence of the Internet. But that changed a long time ago.
First YouTube, then Instagram and later Tiktok They have changed the way of consuming network content, And it is clear that there will be companies that have to change their business model.
Draws attention to the closing of the closure, since Mozilla has announced that July 8 will be the day in which the system will stop being operational to save elementsalthough it will give some more time to save data.
Specifically three more months, Until October 8, so that we can store the articles and elements saved at home or take them to other similar platforms.
Of course, the application, although it continues to appear in application stores, You can no longer download on mobile devicesneither of Android nor of another kind.
Yes Access is maintained for those who have the installed appalready all in the web section, to be able to download the information before October 8.
The monetization attempts of the app after the change of name in 2012, which have been in force for more than a decade, do not seem to have given sufficient fruits to compensate for the service.
It is striking that only three years ago, this app was named by Google as the app of the year, a sign that it was still relevant, although not as much as in the past. Things change fast.
It will not be Pocket the last historical application that we will see, especially with the changes that the Introduction of AI to mass levels will bring to the sector.
