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points by afavour 3 days ago | 0 comments

The vibrant and varied mobile market the Sidekick lived in feels so alien now. I'm still shocked that Danger, the company that made the Sidekick, were acquired by MS and made a next gen version... which was promptly canned within weeks of launch:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Kin

[–] kotaKat 3 days ago

That thing was so cursed because it was in the dark "inbetween" times of Windows Mobile 6.5 (and how desperately it was trying to cling onto) and WP7 (that they thought was going to kill Apple).

But damnit, the Kin ONE was a beautiful form factor and I loved that pebble. The software was terrible and I always wish I could have bailed it out to a generic CE desktop to make it do more dumb things.

[–] lp92 2 days ago

Microsoft really messed up with their mobile OS by not treating touchscreen as the primary input and display method.