

The Windows Mobile era took a heavy toll on Microsoft's mobile efforts





Steve Ballmer
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RE: Kin
By TSS on 2/18/2013 5:25:30 PM , Rating: 2
Great features or not, wikipedia lists availability of the kin as may 2010 while the iphone was released in 2007.

Meaning when the iphone craze was in full swing, microsoft decided to launch a phone in the blackberry style, or the style of the craze 3-4 years ago at that point, with a full qwerty keyboard. While the iphone 1 already had a screen that doubled as a keyboard, which ment the screen was much larger when you didn't need that keyboard.

I'm sorry but while the phone might have had great features, the greatest feature of all that all succesfull smartphones have had since the iphone was missing, 3 years after that feature was revealed.

If it was simply the carrier's greed that made it fail, *all* smartphones would fail. All smartphones cost 40%-50% more when you buy them with a subscription instead of pre-paid, yet almost everybody prefers to buy the subscription over waiting or just not buying a smartphone.

