How Many Kins Did Microsoft Sell in Two Months?

[joebob2000]

[citation][nom]svetoslav_sj[/nom]Did I hust hear you finished paying that medical bill from 8 years ago proxy711? Ohhh nooo - 2 more years left Go play with uncle Rush and aunt Palin genuis![/citation]

LOL you were almost there, *one word* away from a good sharp troll and then you put a bullet in your own ass.

As for the theory that the Verizon stores counted toward 'active kin users' have you ever been to a VZ store where an employee's facebook page (or some store-concocted page) was preloaded? Heck no, the apps are just bare downloads with no customization unless someone happened by and decided to log in. Not likely 8000 times over. 8000 is still a sad number, don't get me wrong. However, Microsoft still has a huge share of the Smartphone OS market, they really just did this to retrench on Windows Phone 7 so they can focus on getting one mobile platform right before moving on to the next one. Any sales number shy of 1 million units would have been insufficient to lead upper management away from that decision; the Kin was doomed from the start.

 

[Guest]

Kin is the most famous MS misstake of all times

 

[Guest]

I’ve actually seen quite a few KIN commercials the last month or so, (maybe Adult Swim or History Ch?) in fact I swear I’ve seen them this week! I’ll have to keep my eyes open to see if there still running. Seems like an interesting idea if you’re into the social networking thing.

 

[belardo]

Epic Fail... YES!

Its nice to see MS get a kick in the nutz every now and then.

 

[IFLATLINEI]

[citation][nom]walt526[/nom]Ever hear of something called Blackberry?[/citation]

Im sure he has but he also realizes they dont matter right now.

 

[grain]

[citation][nom]proxy711[/nom]Ya hows that health care working for you guys?oh you're still waiting for them to attach that finger you lost 4 months ago...[/citation]
Just fine, I don't have to grab my wallet before going to the hospital.

 

[clivene09]

Oh Noes! However are we going to know when ?uestlove is performing now?

 

[Guest]

Any Verizon store that I've been to in my area, a suburb on the IL side of St. Louis, has always had fully functioning models of every phone they sell. When the Droid and Eris came out I remember going into the store to look at them and they had 3 units of each. All of which were fully functioning units. I browsed the web and made a phone call on one of the Droids.

 

[alextheblue]

[citation][nom]eddieroolz[/nom]Don't spread FUD. It doesn't work that way.[/citation]
Actually I have seen it work that way. Not with a finger, that was an idiotic example, but for non-immediate-life-threatening (gunshots, limbs missing, etc), there often is a MUCH longer waiting period than we experience here. Also, it is not "free", the taxes are outrageous. Anyone that thinks they're getting a free ride is a complete moron.

 

[waffle911]

I seriously saw a Kin ad during every single commercial break for the two months it was on the market. Annoying as all get-out. There were a lot of magazine ads as well. Surprised that they were so ineffective until I read that it's primary problem was that, although it was really just a feature phone rather than a full smartphone, Verizon was forcing the premium smartphone-centric dataplan on Kins, rather than pay-as-you-go for data. Then I read what GadgetLiver wrote and it sort of made more sense why Verizon would require you to subscribe to a high-bandwidth plan, and even more so why cloud phones (and mobile cloud computing) are not yet ready for prime time. The amount of data that has to be streamed back and forth for processing and storage for every little thing you do as opposed to being stored and processed locally must be astounding.

 

[Guest]

I have a kin and it works great for me! I love the wifi feature so I can browse without using data. It was free when I signed up with verizon. It works great and has a 5 megapixle camera. I also like how small it is.