2010年7月5日星期一

Kin: More Proof That Warring Fiefdoms Rule at Microsoft

We Microsoft watchers are all armchair quarterbacking today, the day after Microsoft basically pulled the plug on its short-lived Kin phones for the teen/twenty-something market.

The pricey Verizon data plan killed it, some say. Microsoft’s decision to redo the Java-centric Danger OS and turn it into a Windows Embedded Compact one marked the beginning of the end, say others. A lack of downloadable apps, weird ad campaigns, phones that attempted to straddle the feature-phone/smartphone market all are cited as the Kin’s undoing.

But I haven’t seen many folks look closely at the Kin development timeline.

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