{"id":3159,"date":"2010-06-30T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T22:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2010-06-30T15:49:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T23:49:02","slug":"microsoft-kin-in-dead-to-no-suprise-not-even-ms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/microsoft-kin-in-dead-to-no-suprise-not-even-ms\/","title":{"rendered":"MicroSoft Kin is dead to no surprise, not even MS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kin was DOA for almost everyone who reviewed it.\u00a0 It was basically a low feature, low capability smart phone that was not that smart, nor much of a phone, and yet still had the same cost of a phone.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>You HAVE to imagine that even the brain dead at MS mobile knew this was a loss leader.\u00a0 I don’t think they were ever that committed to the kin.\u00a0 Instead what I think they were really interested in was on the online integration effort, and from what little I have seen of it, its an interesting effort.<\/p>\n

I have the new samsung bada phone and they have made a very nice effort in integrating socMed messages with email and contacts to provide a single experience.\u00a0 The MS Kin site is a bit like that but with multimedia streaming included.\u00a0 An interesting effort.\u00a0 And you know that is what we will see in Windows 7 mobile.<\/p>\n

Still, that is a LOT of money and lost reputation to test out a market idea.\u00a0 But this is Microsoft, they play the long game and do not feel worried about trying 1 2 or even 3.11 times to get something right.\u00a0 But the question we have to ask is; in a world where Apple and Google (with exception to wave) tend to get it right the first time, can MS afford to be so obtuse?<\/p>\n

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