MICROSOFT KIN BIGGEST FLOP EVER - Only 503 KIN’s sold in under 3 months

Sim Basics ^ | July 8, 2010

[GeronL]

Is this the device that MS called an “ad delivery vehicle”?

I sure want to pay for something that will throw ads at me all the time.

[101voodoo]

Maybe, they seem to have hit a Grand Slam with Windows7.

[Cyropaedia]

Gates dropped out of Harvard because he recognized "error" of his ways, and realized that he could "make do" with only a high school diploma.

Ballmer, on the other hand, actually graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard with degrees in mathematics and economics.

This, should really tell you something.

[Fire_on_High]

Yet they make some of the best basic optical mice around. They *last*!

[RegulatorCountry]

It does wonderful things such as...if you go to a Shmoos' concert and post it on your phone, then all your friends who have Kins and like the Shmoos will get a message

Big Bob Is Watching™

[RightOnline]

Well if they’d ever cut loose with the Courier, they’d really have something.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/172431/microsofts_topsecret_tablet_courier.html

[starlifter]

NTP buys patents and then rigorously enforces their intellectual property rights. There is nothing smarmy about what they do. Their property, they own it.

This didn't cause MS to kill the Kin. What killed the Kin was a lack of demand.