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# ? Jun 10, 2024 23:50 |
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kin showed every sign of a product that should have been killed long before it was released, but because of the agreements that msft had signed with verizon, it was cheaper to release it and let it gasp for breath before expiring than to pay the penalty fee to verizon for failing to deliver im p sure the motorola/apple rokr phone was released for the same reason collaboration turned sour can become quite messy 48 days tho thats got to be a record
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isnt he a little short to be a sith lord
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i was gonna post this one ![]() ![]() ![]()
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uncurable mlady posted:speaking of embarassing microsoft moments, who remembers this is that a novelty burial?
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like those guys who get buried in a golf themed coffin or like robert c baker?
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FMguru posted:kin showed every sign of a product that should have been killed long before it was released, but because of the agreements that msft had signed with verizon, it was cheaper to release it and let it gasp for breath before expiring than to pay the penalty fee to verizon for failing to deliver its a little sad because the sidekick/hiptop was ahead of its time in a lot of ways and if done competently a true successor could have been a legit iphone competitor. but its post-gates ms so they obviously hosed it up badly
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SIGSEGV posted:is that a novelty burial? no one died, it was a mock funeral procession for the iphone because the latest windows phone just released and was totally going to kick iphone's rear end sales-wise
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univbee posted:no one died, it was a mock funeral procession for the iphone because the latest windows phone just released and was totally going to kick iphone's rear end sales-wise i wonder how many people in those photos actually believed that
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i also think there was a germ of a good idea behind kin - a limited-feature smartphone full of social media (chat and text and picture sharing) that targeted teens and college students (especially girls) as a next logical step after the razr phone. if it had come out a couple years earlier (and with a full feature set and an appropriate data plan) they might have had something by 2010 verizon was putting everything they had behind the droid series and trying to get the iphone from apple and whatever business sense the kin made to them when they started had long since expired
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windows phone 7 and surface rt. heh, ftw. kiss yr little ifad and icrap goodbye ![]()
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based on the design choices in that banner, the person responsible for this was tapped to design win10
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rip lunix archduke![]() ![]()
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Creeping Win Phone Sex
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Nash Regex posted:Creeping Win Phone Sex nothing says sexy like the rural south
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what's that banner say, certainly not sex ring right
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something keeping windows phone sexy
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windows phone is so loving SEXY unnnnngh! like thick white girls dressed as hicks
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infernal machines posted:windows phone is so loving SEXY
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in keeping with MS' current naming scheme, the browser will become Xbox One Web Powered by Bing With Xbox OneDrive Cloud Service
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duTrieux. posted:my money's on them keeping the name 'spartan' for the browser because what the gently caress else are they gonna do print the "Spartan" name in thousands of documents, get sued, then call it "Windows Browser Modern Style" to confuse everyone
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i know a guy who had a phone with windows phone 7 on it
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they cant quit their all-metro-apps-get-splash-screens internal mandating every single launch of your web browser gets you smacked in the face with this awful logo ![]() there is just such a massive insecurity at work, who brands a web browser and who insists on splash screens like this is back in the middle of the winamp vs sonique dormroom-mindshare wars?
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Smythe posted:i know a guy who had a phone with windows phone 7 on it i had a phone that had windows phone 7 on it!
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Smythe posted:i know a guy who had a phone with windows phone 7 on it hosed up if true infernal machines posted:i had a phone that had windows phone 7 on it! i suspected as much
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i have a good phone now
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i use the wp7 text message alert noise on my iphone. it's nice, haven't heard anyone else use it in the 3yrs it's been that way.
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Sudo Echo posted:i use the wp7 text message alert noise on my iphone. it's nice, haven't heard anyone else use it in the 3yrs it's been that way. both ios and wp7 have good message alert sounds
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Sudo Echo posted:i use the wp7 text message alert noise on my iphone. it's nice, haven't heard anyone else use it in the 3yrs it's been that way.
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Mercurius posted:i use the quack noise from old versions of mac os i use default sounds because im cool in real life
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Smythe posted:im cool in real life i'm sorry smythe, but according to our records you work in live theatre, so that's almost certainly not true
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ya ok says the it guy
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i never claimed to be cool though
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but i know it when i see it, and brother, you ain't it.
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infernal machines posted:but i know it when i see it, and brother, you ain't it. wrong, ive had sex. ![]()
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are you saying it involved a dragon dildo
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shadow puppet of a posted:dormroom-mindshare mods
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shadow puppet of a posted:they cant quit their all-metro-apps-get-splash-screens internal mandating does it still do grayscale font rendering
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FMguru posted:kin showed every sign of a product that should have been killed long before it was released, but because of the agreements that msft had signed with verizon, it was cheaper to release it and let it gasp for breath before expiring than to pay the penalty fee to verizon for failing to deliver but seriously: quote:Contact lists could only be copied from another phone by Verizon store employees. There was no way for the consumer to do this by any known means quote:Kin was unable to Instant Message (IM), or use any IM client quote:There was no spelling correction or predictive text input.
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