On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 6:37 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:38 PM, mike <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > MS already killed the kin, barely out a week?  Did the iPhone sales scare
> > them off their little dangeresque device?  It was clearly priced way too
> > high for the target market.  Can this bode well for Windows phone?
>
>   Looks to me as if MS was going to test the waters to find out just
> how much of mom and dad's money they could cajole kids into scraping
> up to buy this thing.  I'll say it seems to have had all the
> attributes that kids want.  It was Itsy bitsy teeny weeny, with a
> microscopic display, keys smaller than Tic-Tacs, and oh so easy to
> hide from the teacher.  The perfect device for undeveloped minds to do
> their Facebooking, or whatever social time wasting site is currently
> in vogue.  Times be tight, however, and mommy and daddy are pinching
> their pennies these days.  What a loss for society this is!
>
>
It was also trapped between major phone OS releases.  It was the last gasp
of system 6 at 6.5 and too close to the release of 7.  It was sort of a
missing link phone.

-- 
John Duncan Yoyo
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