has eliminated numerous treasured applications, but due to a perpetually evolving technological environment filled with acquisitions and continually changing API modifications, there remains an abundance of obsolete third-party Android apps that users continue to long for.
So get ready for a nostalgic journey; it’s time to look back at some of the Android apps that are sorely missed. From beloved RSS readers to valued app launchers, many agree that Android suffers a decline, owing to the complete vanishing of numerous exemplary apps and their abrupt (and frequently unjustified) endings.
If you were to inquire with any random Android user about which app they yearn for the most, you’re likely to receive one of two responses. It will either be Google Reader or Inbox (more on Inbox below), and Google Reader has been absent since 2013, so it undoubtedly leads in the category of most missed simply by virtue of how long it has been gone.
For those who are not acquainted with Google Reader, it was a widely used RSS feed aggregator managed by Google. It debuted in 2005, and the Android app appeared in the Play Store in 2010 (then known as the Android Market). However, similar to many Google offerings that fail to achieve instant success, it faded away due to insufficient updates until it was shut down 5 years later, quite abruptly, which only served to further infuriate loyal users (a typical Google strategy, something the company is quite infamous for with its notorious Graveyard). Consequently, Google Reader secured its place in our nostalgic memories as an overlooked service that truly deserved more.
Although there are still numerous RSS feed aggregators available in the Android realm, like Feedly and <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details
