Just As I Thought

MS: It’ll take $30K to fill yo…

May 12, 2009

MS: It’ll take $30K to fill your iPod. Me: it’ll take 250 years and $45,000 to fill your Zune, 10 songs per month, on subscription.

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It was a cell phone marketed to kids so they could hook up with strangers, with a data plan priced like a normal adult smartphone. Not even a 50% pricedrop on the two devices to $29 and $49 could spur sluggish sales. So, Microsoft terminated the product after only a few weeks on the shelves, even though it was years and millions of dollars in the making.
Kin launched six weeks ago. I’d say, at this point, that Microsoft should simply stop trying to sell anything that you can hold in your hand.

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