Microsoft Kills Off Kin Phones After 48 Days

[wotan31]

Complete failure. Microsoft products do very well in the market, when it something they bought from someone else. Look at Office. Look at IE. Both very successful, and both were bought from other companies. Products that Microsoft develops entirely on its own, by itself, are usually complete failures. This Kin phone is just another example of that.

 

[wotan31]

I don't know why they're even bothering with Windows 7 mobile. The market is Android vs. iPhone. Windows Mobile is not even part of the equation. Zero, market share, cause nobody wants it. A new release that's too little too late is not going to change anything.

 

[warezme]

translation, they spent (bled) more on advertisement than on profits from selling those butt ugly phones.

 

[mrmez]

Grand opening.

Grand closing.

 

[sliem]

I wouldn't call anything about this 'grand'.

 

[insider3]

[citation][nom]war2k9[/nom]I wonder how can Steve approve this thing to began with.This show how good steve is as a CEO of M$.[/citation]

What?

 

[aethm]

I didn't think it was that bad. I would have purchased a kin before an iPhone, at least if they can actually be used as phones.

P.S. I have only seen a person talking on the iPhone 2x EVER. Why even have a phone a function? The same is pretty much true for the droid as well. I know a lot of people (especially iPhone users) that keep a second cell phone just for calls.

 

[Guest]

4GB barely enough to install Win7 on.
Terga processor, x86 compatible?
256MB RAM, WTF? Is that going to run Windows 95 or something?
320x240 pixels, just how many icons next to "my computer" and "recycle bin" are we going to be able to see on the screen at one given time?