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jarek
on July 8, 2010
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Gruber's source: Microsoft only sold 503 Kins.
> MS figured there were enough folks who needed the phone but not quite the full smartphone experience.
Yes...
> The Kin was going after the iPod Touch crowd
... but that's not the iPod Touch crowd.
hapless
on July 8, 2010
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I've run into a lot of children and teenagers who own an iPod Touch. It's much easier to get parental funding/permission for a one-time cost than $30-50 month changes to the family phone bill.
jarek
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But, again, those are not the Sidekick-user type of users Microsoft was going for.
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> The Kin was going after the iPod Touch crowd
... but that's not the iPod Touch crowd.