The Microsoft KIN received an end-of-life a little over a week ago. This was caused mainly due to low sales numbers, but exactly how bad did it sell? John Gruber from the Daring Fireball has received info from a “well-placed” source that only 503 KINs were sold.
Business Insider quotes another Microsoft employee:
We had a huge launch party on campus and I bet that party cost more than the amount of revenues we took in on the product. As an employee, I am embarrassed. As a shareholder, I am pissed. It’s one thing to incubate products and bring them to a proof-of-concept to see what works, but it’s something else to launch. I suspect we launched because we felt like we HAD to so we could save face because we were trying to build buzz, but overall – huge fail.
