Frequent readers might remember the Microsoft Kin which was to be an iPhone fighter of sorts. Frequent readers may also recall that I wasn’t overly impressed with it. Well, PC Magazine is reporting that the Kin is dead:
Microsoft on Wednesday released a statement suggesting that it’s cutting bait on the Windows Phone 7 spinoff and folding the project’s staff and technologies into the main body of Windows Phone 7.
Lovely. Verizon who was stupid enough to had exclusive rights to carry the phone will continue to sell them for now, but the product is dead. At least as a stand alone device. One has to wonder if the reason to kill the Kin was due to crappy sales, the need to make Windows Mobile 7 more feature rich, or both?
So I guess this was basically the Zune of phones? In other words another dismal failure for Microsoft. How the mighty have fallen.
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The Kin Is Dead…. Shock, Not….
Frequent readers might remember the Microsoft Kin which was to be an iPhone fighter of sorts. Frequent readers may also recall that I wasn’t overly impressed with it. Well, PC Magazine is reporting that the Kin is dead:
Microsoft on Wednesday released a statement suggesting that it’s cutting bait on the Windows Phone 7 spinoff and folding the project’s staff and technologies into the main body of Windows Phone 7.
Lovely. Verizon who was stupid enough to had exclusive rights to carry the phone will continue to sell them for now, but the product is dead. At least as a stand alone device. One has to wonder if the reason to kill the Kin was due to crappy sales, the need to make Windows Mobile 7 more feature rich, or both?
So I guess this was basically the Zune of phones? In other words another dismal failure for Microsoft. How the mighty have fallen.
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