Title: What are examples of products in their decline stage? - Quora
Headings: What are examples of products in their decline stage?
What are examples of products in their decline stage?
Content: are fading away, but specialized mainframes are still in demand - super com
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Being an old timer, I could list many things that have already declined in popularity or no longer even exist (8-track players, Betamax VCRs, dictaphones and dedicated word processors to name a few). Funny - when I started my career everyone was saying, “Learn to fix computers and you’ll never want for a job.” Yeah, not so much. :-) Personal computers, like TVs (as someone else mentioned), are now generally cheaper to replace than to repair. General business mainframe computers that used to be used for accounting, etc., are fading away, but specialized mainframes are still in demand - super computers, for example - and very expensive (they get repaired, not replaced). Here are some others that have become obsoleted lately, or are becoming obsolete (in their declining stage): Adding machines
Floppy disks and drives
High capacity hard disk drives (as the cloud becomes more common)
Paid personal email accounts (think, free Gmail)
Dial-up modems and connections
Calling the Telephone Operator and “Information” (411)
Video stores
Landline phones, and long distance charges
Public payphones
Pushbuttons (as touch screens become more useful)
VCRs
FAX machines
Phone books & physical encyclopedias
Physical newspapers
CDs
Regular alarm clocks
Record stores
RS-232 communications (look it up)
Paper receipts (and bills!), and checking accounts
Search the internet and you can find many more like this. Hope I helped!