When an application or service stands out from the crowd, and behind it is a small group of people, as a general rule, it is usually bought by one of the big ones, with the consequent risk that this entails, since in most cases , it stops working sooner or later.
In 2014, Yahoo bought the Aviate launcher, a launcher that attracted special attention due to the promises it offered us. According to its developers, Aviate would be able to know at all times which applications we wanted to use based on our time zone patterns, in addition to our location. But it took little time to show that there was an insurmountable distance from theory to practice.
Over the past year, Yahoo faced a large number of problems during the sales process that it faced, due to the almost monthly disclosure, of data in which it claimed that they had suffered a large number of attacks, attacks that They had supposed not only theft of passwords, but also of the credit cards associated with them. The sale of a part of the company, the most visible so to speak, it would mean a change in some of the services it offered.
One of the changes, which is especially striking in the world of telephony, is related to Aviate, a launcher that after Yahoo acquired it, went from bad to worse. But despite the fact that its use in recent years was almost sporadic, the company continued to maintain the application by releasing updates regularly. But all the good things are over, at least for the users of this launcher, since the company has announced on its blog that as of March 8 of this year, it will stop offering support for the application.
