Official line
Replaced by iCloud.
Apple · Cloud & Infra · Product
MobileMe
Discontinued
2008–2012 · 4 years in market
Launched
Jul 9, 2008
Discontinued
Jun 30, 2012
Cause of death
Replaced by successor
Evidence
Unsourced
What was it?
Apple’s first real cloud suite. Launched broken, lived embarrassed, replaced by iCloud.
Why it died
Editorial reading
Sync that did not sync. Jobs called it a mistake in public. The brand could not be saved.
Founder takeaway
Cloud is a trust product. If v1 is a disaster, change the name — and the team — before you try again.
Sources
Unsourced — editorial reading
No primary source is attached yet. Treat the interpretation as editorial, not a citation.
What replaced it
Apple
iCloud
The redo, with a new name and a long apology period.
Related graves
Same company, category, or cause of death.
Apple
RIP
iChat
2002–2012 · 10 yrs
Bonjour and AIM bubbles on the Mac. Became Messages when iMessage needed a desktop home.
Messaging/Replaced by successor+39
Apple
RIP
iWork.com
2009–2012 · 3 yrs
Apple’s early document-sharing beta for Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. Folded when iCloud arrived.
Productivity/Replaced by successor+31
Apple
RIP
iPod touch
2007–2022 · 15 yrs
iOS without a phone plan. The last iPod, killed when a cheap iPhone became the honest version of the same idea.
Hardware/Replaced by successor+31
Apple
Feature
RIP
Dashboard
2005–2019 · 14 yrs
A full-screen overlay of widgets. Replaced by Notification Center, then by the modern widget panel.
Productivity/Replaced by successor+31