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The price wasn't theirs to set. The Kin was a pretty cool product for the market. The price, however, was unreasonable.

Apple get's a free pass with the iPhone despite AT&T, but MS releases a good product, and people blame the phone companies issues on MS.

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Prices can be negotiated with the carriers. Remember the original iPhone's 600$ price tag? Infact, MS supposedly got a very good pricing deal with Verizon which they botched up by not meeting the agreed upon timelines.

> Remember the original iPhone's 600$ price tag?

Yeah, it's still that high.

> MS supposedly got a very good pricing deal with Verizon

For the market, no. It was pretty clear when the product came out the pricing for the market it was going after was still too high.

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