I apologize for the bad comparison, doing so is not something I enjoy, like flossing cats.

I shouldn't have used the crutch of analogy and should have spent more time writing a thoughtful reply, like you did.

I when I joined Microsoft late last year, it seemed to me that everyone I talked to knew that the Kin was going to be dead on arrival. It was well known that the team working on the phone was discouraged and that the phone was going to be nothing like the one they set out to build.

People didn't like the Kin, but they all seemed to make the excuse that they weren't in the target demograph for the phone.

To be honest, I think you are being overly generous in your comments about the Kin.

What I'm trying to say is that the Kin had almost nothing in common with the Windows Phone. But I think you get that.