Microsoft pulls plug on Kin phones
Submitted by Linux Resource News on June 30, 2010 – 8:09 pmOne Comment
Microsoft Corp has pulled the plug on a new generation of smartphones less than three months after unveiling the devices that were part of its efforts to catch-up with Apple Inc and Google Inc in the fast-growing mobile market.
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Who says companies don’t admit when they’ve made a mistake? I was just having this conversation today with a co-worker.
We learn far more from our mistakes than our successes. Too many successes without any failure is a recipe for weak leadership in an organization. Organizations that punish leaders for failures are weak organizations. Of course there has to be a balance. But when the corporate culture forces leaders to “spin” failures into some sort of phony story of success rather than admitting failure this is a company we should avoid. If a leader cannot admit mistakes, investigate the reason. If it is corporate culture, avoid the company. If it is the leader’s personality, eliminate the leader. Kudos to Microsoft on this one.
“Windows Phone 7 is the real mobile strategy,” said Rosoff. “The fact that it (the Kin) was ever released in the first place was a mistake. When they went with Phone 7, they should have quietly killed this project.”