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Cybernetic Vermin posted:e: reminder, the kin launched without a calendar app and was on the market for 48 days
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:microsoft really didn't fail at mobile because they didn't have competent people working on interesting things, so many attempts which were some proper management and a touch of commitment away from being a good product they meant to pull it after a month but
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Nov 22, 2016 14:17
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Agile Vector posted:they meant to pull it after a month but nice
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Nov 22, 2016 14:33
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i'd love a smart flipphone
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Nov 22, 2016 15:42
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yeah actually, i sort of feel that matters have circled back around to a point where weird form-factors for phones may again be pretty workable. less app focus, digital assistants, phones interacting with other devices more cleanly, etc.
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Nov 22, 2016 15:49
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hello team, please assemble in the office for a 4am meeting so i can call you from mt kilimanjaro whoops it messed up lets try again same time tomorrow
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Nov 22, 2016 16:54
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idk they are children phones who cares if theres a calendar i, a grown adult, basically never use the calendar on my stebephone
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Nov 22, 2016 16:59
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Bloody posted:idk they are children phones who cares if theres a calendar i, a grown adult, basically never use the calendar on my stebephone an example, it was like 95% of the way there but the remaining 5% was stupid important stuff, then pulling it off the shelves 48 days later to make room for windows phone 7, which was also a nice take that they then went on to repeatedly gut and redo until no one cared anymore (except i still use a w10m one for unclear reasons) i sort of think the kin was even ahead of its time, just reviewing what it did again now and i still me thinking it is a very solid idea
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Nov 22, 2016 17:04
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graph posted:hello team, please assemble in the office for a 4am meeting so i can call you from mt kilimanjaro
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Nov 22, 2016 17:04
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yeah thats fair. classic microsoft move tho, they've always been a bit stupid in the mobile world
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Nov 22, 2016 17:05
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:i sort of think the kin was even ahead of its time, just reviewing what it did again now and i still me thinking it is a very solid idea but by the time it got to market it had already been overtaken by things like droid and msft had realigned behind winpho 7 the 48 days on market was just a side effect of the contracts verizon and msft had signed. neither one wanted to pay the penalties if they canned the project so msft produced the minimum possible product and vzn did the minimum required to stock and promote it. it was a dead product walking, comparable to that apple/moto ROKR phone that arrived stillborn
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Nov 22, 2016 17:10
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Nov 22, 2016 17:15
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wasn't the kin the one which you had to sign a full on dataplan for, negating any possible reason to buy it
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Nov 22, 2016 17:24
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Wild EEPROM posted:wasn't the kin the one which you had to sign a full on dataplan for, negating any possible reason to buy it yeah, i think fmguru is 100% correct in that it was not meant to sell at all at the point it came out i remain pretty convinced that there would have been room for it, and that the phone landscape will shift to be a bit more differentiated again as time goes on. mostly because the improvements the iphone forced on the web is rather loosening the need for a huge app ecosystem.
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Nov 22, 2016 18:23
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i think the spot is probably still a good idea? (it was a green dot on the screen where you could drag media and links and text and it would pocket it, and you could just go into the spot and then decide what to do with it)
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however, Spot was a feature that allowed users to add an e-mail address or telephone number to an SMS or MMS, or to attach content (e.g., text, URLs or photos) to emails.[34] The Spot was represented as an omnipresent colored dot near the bottom center of the screen. To add an address field, the user dragged a recipient's photo to the Spot, then clicked on the Spot, opening a page that allowed the user to create a new email, SMS or MMS. However, Kin did not support attachments to non-e-mail media such as MMS and could not be used to send content to social media sites.[34]
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Nov 22, 2016 18:55
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yeah, not followed through on at all, but it is sort of an interesting ui idea, have a place to which you can drag a bunch of media, people and/or apps, open it and it gives you some sensible options for what you can do to combine those things (e.g. send these pictures to a group conversation with these people) i certainly *hope* that the phone sphere ends up with a bit more variety in the coming years, i am not at all sure the iphone should be the last word on this stuff
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Nov 22, 2016 19:01
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its a shame that android is a pos and winpho is a graveyard
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Nov 22, 2016 19:02
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realtalk i would of bought a winpho if they had snapchat but they do not have snapchat
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Nov 22, 2016 19:03
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it is not good enough even if all the apps you need are on it, stuff like bluetooth has straight up regressed with the windows unification the one real upside is that it is really well updated. it follows the normal windows schedule, and the core apps are the same bundles shipped on the desktop. with the obscurity it is likely the safest choice
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Nov 22, 2016 19:07
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imagine being one of the engineers or devs working on the kin for like 3 years of your life and then it's on the market for 6 weeks and no one buys it or remembers it
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Nov 22, 2016 23:33
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Sagebrush posted:imagine being one of the engineers or devs working on the kin for like 3 years of your life and then it's on the market for 6 weeks and no one buys it or remembers it the lead dev has killed himself in shame have you informed his next-of-Kin? ... sorry
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Nov 22, 2016 23:36
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Bloody posted:realtalk i would of bought a winpho if they had snapchat but they do not have snapchat you can't txt people photos of your junk? why do you need an app to do that?
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Nov 23, 2016 00:10
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I need an app for it and I cant really articulate why but snapchat is good
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Nov 23, 2016 00:15
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Pinterest Mom posted:however, so basically the inbuilt share function on android except broken doesnt ios also now allow third parties to populate the share dialog or is it still dependent on apple adding things to it? i guess my point is that this is a solved problem
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Nov 23, 2016 00:59
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Sagebrush posted:imagine being one of the engineers or devs working on the kin for like 3 years of your life and then it's on the market for 6 weeks and no one buys it or remembers it yeah getting paid to develop something but then never having to support it sounds terrible
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Nov 23, 2016 01:51
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LastInLine posted:so basically the inbuilt share function on android except broken apple allows whatever to add stuff to shares but theres some silly thing where like a file storage app sometimes doesnt let you move a file to another file storage app but it isnt clear who is not allowing that to happen
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Nov 23, 2016 02:35
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apple share sheet: files go in, they dont come out
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Nov 23, 2016 02:36
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Bloody posted:idk they are children phones who cares if theres a calendar i, a grown adult, basically never use the calendar on my stebephone the calendar is one of the most important parts of my phone. so many excitign events and experiences and so little time
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Nov 23, 2016 18:11
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Bloody posted:I need an app for it and I cant really articulate why but snapchat is good Instagram does transient video messages now
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Nov 23, 2016 18:50
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Captain Foo posted:Instagram does transient video messages now InstaTramp
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Nov 23, 2016 21:37
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NoneMoreNegative posted:InstaTramp mods???
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Nov 23, 2016 23:18
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Dickstagram
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Nov 24, 2016 03:17
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Peckerest
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Nov 24, 2016 03:52
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Agile Vector posted:Cunterest
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Nov 24, 2016 04:58
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Captain Foo posted:Instagram does transient video messages now Yeah but neither me nor none of my friends care about instagram
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Nov 24, 2016 06:07
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also it probably doesn't have a winpho app either
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Nov 24, 2016 06:07
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The Kin was made for a boardrooms interpretation of what teens/college kids want. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1w2IxMWQ1Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbAseSun2rA
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Optimus_Rhyme posted:The Kin was made for a boardrooms interpretation of what teens/college kids want. im douchechillz.com
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no wait i'm actually chouchedilz.com yeah, that's me
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