Posted on 07/09/2010 7:41:25 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
One member of staff at Microsoft working on the KIN project said:
“We had a huge launch party on campus and I bet that party cost more than the amount of revenues we took in on the product. As an employee, I am embarrassed. As a shareholder, I am pissed. It’s one thing to incubate products and bring them to a proof-of-concept to see what works, but it’s something else to launch. I suspect we launched because we felt like we had to so we could save face because we were trying to build buzz, but overall – huge fail”.
Such an improvement!
You can’t “rip off” a licensee unless you’re the licensor, Cold Heat.
Quick, somebody send the Bamster some Kin. He needs a few friends.
The ripped of the programming and tech. My guess is they stole it in China.
In a manner of speaking, yes. Very clever! They're "Bobbing" for Apple?
He discovered Bridge and realized that there was something more fulfilling than computers.
People just got sick of their $#!+ and are bailing now that there are valid alternatives?
Never heard of it until now.
And those ads are psychotic and creepy beyond words.
No wonder this thing bombed. That’s what every girl wants.... to come face to face with all her cyberstalkers.
Y I K E S !!
Nice pic, but I’ll actually say something nice about former President Carter. This pic and caption does him a dis-service in associating him with obama in any way. obama is the worst President ever. Former President Carter couldn’t hold a candle to obama, not even in the same league. And yes, I’m old enough to remember waiting in line for gas during the “energy crisis.”
I don't think the girls were in on the focus groups. My, my ... when geek chic goes awry.
Microsoft Kin - the Obama of smartphones
Obama - the vuvuzela of ostensible world leaders.
Wow. That’s really disturbing. I wonder how much MS paid their ad agency to come up with this? Hope the account manager loses his job.
I first saw this phone on Engadget.com, and just by the look of it, I had a feeling it would flop. I had no idea it would flop so spectacularly, though...
It's like they just can't let go of a certain stereotype of their target market, which apparently is leftover Seattle grunge types who really, really loved the movie Clerks.
It's some sort of myopia borne of proximity to Seattle, I suppose.
I found it interesting that you only mentioned Apple, when NTP is also suing Google, Motorola, LG, HTC and Microsoft. None of them are accused of stealing stuff from RIM, RIM was the first one that got sued by NTP. FWIW, Its critics have said that NTP has consistently inflated the importance of its innovations and that it is the very model of a patent troll, a company that produces no product or service other than licensing demands and lawsuits.(from the NYTimes article.)
The lawsuit between RIM and NTP was settled in 2006. NTP produces nothing but lawsuits. It was founded by a programmer and a lawyer. The programmer died and the lawyer sues people.
The other companies were aware of the lawsuit, and there's a good chance that they designed their email systems to avoid the patents claimed by NTP.
If you enjoy Epic Fail, you need look no further than the odd forays into hardware from Microsoft. They are legion.
I agree. I think it was a flop, but the only way a national roll out like that only sells 500 phones is if they told the salespeople to slap anyone who tried to buy it.
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