13 times companies killed products too soon and broke our hearts

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Tech will break your heart.

For every Microsoft Windows, Apple iPhone, Google search bar, or Amazon Kindle, there are so many apps, services, and games that get killed before we're ready to let them go.

Sometimes, like the Flip video camera, these products die because of an acquisition gone awry. Sometimes, like Google Reader, they die simply because not enough people use them. Regardless, they're gone.

Here are 13 times companies broke our hearts by destroying something that lots of people loved.

The Motorola Razr, first released in 2004, was one of the most popular early cell phones thanks to its slim, svelte form factor. They were discontinued in 2008, amid the rise of the smartphone.

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The "Razr" brand was revived in 2011 for a line of Android smartphones, but they never quite achieved the iconic status of the original.

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Google Reader was one of the earliest and most popular news-reading services on the web. It died an undignified death in 2013, with Google saying that people weren't using it as much. It's still dearly missed.

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