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The original idea behind the Pink/Kin project was to start young people off with Microsoft, i.e.the belief that the first OS people get used to is the one they stick with. This is why the Sidekick OS was re-written in Windows CE. By the time the phones were on the market, the OS was already an antique that would do more to hurt Microsoft than help. Killing it was the right thing to do.
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