Microsoft’s $1 Billion Phone Disaster
Microsoft's Kin phone lasted 48 days on the market and lost over $1 billion.
“In the end, the Microsoft Kin project lost the company over $1 billion in development costs.”
A retrospective on Microsoft's 2010 Kin phone, which lacked an app store, required an expensive data plan, and was discontinued after 48 days at a cost of over $1 billion. The content is a historical mobile-hardware post-mortem with no AI industry relevance.