I had read an article on the fall of winamp once, I think it was this one by ars technica: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest-mp3-playe

I had read an article on the fall of winamp once, I think it was this one by ars technica: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest-mp3-player-undid-itself/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest-... It seems like in the case of winamp there was a mix of bad management decisions and what is now history (the rise of the iPod, web 2.0, and the fall of AOL's primary service).