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Memorial for Microsoft Kin attracted 32,000+ visitors this weekend

By | July 5, 2010, 4:02am PDT

Summary: It lived a very short life, but there are plenty mourning the death of the Microsoft Kin. In fact, a memorial site has already been posted for the youthful smartphone, which has already gotten over 32,000 hits. That’s certainly more than the amount of people who actually bought a Kin One or Kin Two.

It lived a very short life, but there are plenty mourning the death of the Microsoft Kin. In fact, a memorial site has already been posted for the youthful smartphone, which has already gotten over 32,000 hits.

That’s certainly more than the amount of people who actually bought a Kin One or Kin Two.

Published by Shmuel Tennenhaus last Thursday, the tongue-in-cheek remembrance site welcomes stories from Kin owners and anyone who wants to say a word or two regarding this doomed handheld. We also learned that the Kin was apparently a “her.” Who knew?

UPDATE: Apparently the host shut the site down, so the new page (for now) can be found here.

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Rachel King is a staff writer for CBS Interactive in San Francisco. Before serving as a contributing editor at ZDNet in New York City for two years, she previously worked for The Business Insider, FastCompany.com, CNN's San Francisco bureau and the U.S. Department of State. Rachel has also written for MainStreet.com, Irish America Magazine and the New York Daily News, among others. Rachel has a B.A. in Mass Communications and History from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, where she served as art director for the student magazine, Plated.

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It might not be 32,000
ahh so 6th Jul 2010
It might be the same 5,000 doing a circle jerk wailing of the wall.

lol... grin
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Imagine how big the memorial for Windows Phone 7 will be
gjafg 5th Jul 2010
If Kin can attract 32,000 mourners, I think that when Windows Phone 7 dies it will attract at least 180,000 at its wake.
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Fascinating.
Mister Spock 5th Jul 2010
I doubt I will ever fully understand human emotions.

To be so terrified of a simple product that one has to post comments as yours in an effort to reasure yourselves.

Will the success of Windows Phone 7 in some way injure you?
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How does ...
Dave32265 Updated - 5th Jul 2010
his comment indicate fear? He simply made a comment on a quickly dying platform for MS. It's no secret MS is losing big in the mobile dept and unless they come out with something new and exciting, they will continue to flounder. Shoehorning a desktop OS into a phone is a bad idea to begin with and I sure as hell don't want a phone I have to "reboot".
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Indeed
Pete "athynz" Athens 5th Jul 2010
@Mister Spock As an alternate line of questioning would the inevitable failure of Windows Phone 7 in some way injure you?
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An answer, athynz
Mister Spock 5th Jul 2010
I just made a statement to the fact that Market Analyst appears to have an intense hatred for Microsoft and their products, almost angry at the fact that they show no sign of dying.

This seems to lead him to make violent statements based on an emotional response, not facts.

He might do better if he were to look at things less emotionally, as I have found that where there is no emotion, there's no motive for violence
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Dave32265: Oh, the BEAUTIFUL irony!!!
NonZealot 5th Jul 2010
Shoehorning a desktop OS into a phone is a bad idea to begin with

Phones with desktop OSs shoehorned into them:
iPhone (OS X: Apple zealots crowed about the fact that OS X is so good, it could fit in a phone!)
Android: Linux

Phones with purpose built embedded OSs:
Windows Mobile
Palm
Symbian
RIM

Thanks for the laugh Dave, you Apple zealots sure are funny and the fact that you don't even realize you are being funny, makes it even funnier. happy
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@NonZealot...
Dave32265 5th Jul 2010
Me? An apple zealot? Hardly. I don't even own a mac anymore. Sold my mac air to a friend who uses it. I use Linux and BSD, sorry to disappoint you there. And note I said "desktop OS". Read my post before commenting.
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He was being snide, @Mister Spock
ahh so 6th Jul 2010
Why don't you give those pointy ears a good clipping...

lol.... grin
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Number vs amount
Economister Updated - 5th Jul 2010
People do not come in amounts, they come in numbers. Therefore, correct English would be "number of people", not "amount of people". One would never say "how much people", but rather "how many people".
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RE: Memorial for Microsoft Kin attracted 32,000 visitors this weekend
Mike062 5th Jul 2010
@Economister
Your reply doesn't amount to a hill of beans! Grammar Nazi!!
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Unless, of course,
davebarnes 5th Jul 2010
many people have been converted to Soylent Green, then they a much people.
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How do you know?
NonZealot 5th Jul 2010
That's certainly more than the amount of people who actually bought a Kin One or Kin Two.

Just curious, did MS release sales figures on the Kin or are you going by the "500 sold" rumor?
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Even though the Kin is no longer with us,....
Userama 5th Jul 2010
I did like the model names--One and Two. Catchy.
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Stolen from Google's Nexus brands
wackoae 5th Jul 2010
Not to defend MS pathetic attempt at a useless gadget .... but the model names are exactly the same pathetic model names used by Google
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RE: Memorial for Microsoft Kin attracted 32,000 visitors this weekend
gjafg 5th Jul 2010
"Kin One" "Kin Two"

Sounds like characters from a Dr Seuss story
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Yet Nexus One and Two
Mister Spock 5th Jul 2010
sound much like something from a science fiction fantasy show, as i believe they were called.
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Gotta give credit to the Kin for getting one thing right
NonZealot 5th Jul 2010
@athynz
It sure has brought a lot of happiness to a lot of Apple zealots! I find it amusing how nearly all of the replies to this blog are from people who hate the Kin and hate MS. What does that say about you guys? wink
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Interesting
Mister Spock 5th Jul 2010
That is a thought provoking observation.

Indeed, if the Kin's departure has no effect on these respondents, what purpose does it serve to come speak on it's demise.

Are they not satisfied with the personal communications devices they currenetly own?
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On the contrary...
Dave32265 6th Jul 2010
"Are they not satisfied with the personal communications devices they currenetly own?" (spell check not working?)

I am quite happy with my Iphone (which I've had for 3 years). It does what I want and need (though I do not take updates on it) and so far I have been satisfied with AT&T's service. No I am not an Apple zealot as NonZealot tried to intimate in an earlier post. I don't even own a Mac anymore. Just someone who is happy with his phone.

"Indeed, if the Kin's departure has no effect on these respondents, what purpose does it serve to come speak on it's demise."

People have opinions and express them accordingly. Because they differ from yours means they are"illogical" and emotional? Get over yourself and stop trying to be a sci-fi character and embrace real life happy
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There is only 1 logical answer
NonZealot 5th Jul 2010
Are they not satisfied with the personal communications devices they currenetly own?

No, they must not be.
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Any proof of that?
ahh so 6th Jul 2010
I thought not...

No, they must not be.
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Oh, did they think about this...
ahh so 6th Jul 2010
...while they pulled the plug on themselves?

The fact that you're trolling here says a lot about you. wink
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RE: Memorial for Microsoft Kin attracted 32,000 visitors this weekend
Den2010 6th Jul 2010
Amazing! 32,000 visitors, site has to be relocated to handle the load, and the Kin twins die before two months have gone by. Things are definitely moving in the mobile phone space. When is Windows Phone 7 coming out, again? And will we see its memorial site before New Year's Eve parties are over?

I wonder about the congruence of dead device names as well. You can no longer get a (next of) Kin, and now you can't get a Sidekick either. Any phone that wants to be your buddy, your friend, seems doomed from the start. But come to think of it, that makes sense - Microsoft's phones lately have those annoying qualities that simultaneously attract and repel. Maybe the first WP7 device should be called the Black Sheep. Or the Red-headed Stepchild. What do you think?
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It might not be 32,000
ahh so 6th Jul 2010
It might be the same 5,000 doing a circle jerk wailing of the wall.

lol... grin

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