Ironically, Microsoft's Kin found few friends

The Microsoft Kin, known for its creepy, hilariously unsubtle quest-for-the-meaning-of-friendship ads, has been discontinued six weeks after its launch. The developers have been shuttled onto Microsoft’s Windows 7 Phone project, where they’ll import “valuable ideas and technologies from Kin,” but otherwise never speak of it again. The product’s spectacular failure has been blamed on everything from ineffective marketing to moral outrage over “sexting.” Others make a good case that pricing was the main culprit, since charging $99.99