The web evolves. In Europe, we have practically three decades by connecting to the Internet massively and during these years, we have seen many changes, both in software and hardware.
We went from a text website and hyperlinks to the one in which Multimedia content is not essential, it is that it is practically everything. And it is starting to recover his first victims.
Mozilla, the parent company of applications also known as Firefox, announced the closure of another of its applications, Poached, A service that made it possible to record 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 it changed a long time ago.
First youtube, then Instagram and later Tiktok They changed the way to consume network content, And it is clear that there will be companies that will have to change their business model.
Draws attention to the closure fence, since Mozilla announced that July 8 will be the day the system ceases to be operational to save elementsAlthough it will give more time to save data.
More specifically three more months, Until October 8, so that we can store the items and elements saved At home or take them to other similar platforms.
Of course, demand, although it continues to appear in application stores, You can no longer download on mobile devicesNeither Android nor another.
Yes Access is maintained for those who have the installed applicationAlready all in the web section, to be able to download the information before October 8.
Los intentos de monetización de la app tras el cambio de nombre en 2012, que llevan más de una década vigente, no parecen haber dado los frutos suficientes como para que compense mantener el servicio.
Es llamativo que hace solo tres años, esta app fue nombrada por Google como la app del año, señal de que seguía siendo relevante, aunque no tanto como antaño. Las cosas cambian rápido.
No será Pocket la última aplicación histórica que veremos cerrar, sobre todo con los cambios que va a traer al sector la introducción de la IA a niveles masivos.
