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> They still have some ground to make up on the $1B or so dropped on the Kin. Did they really spend $1B on the Kin? Do you have a breakdown on what they spent
by chollida1 16y ago
> They still have some ground to make up on the $1B or so dropped on the Kin.
Did they really spend $1B on the Kin? Do you have a breakdown on what they spent that much money on?
- isani 16y agoOne report says Microsoft spent $500 million acquiring Danger as part of the Pink/Kin project. http://gigaom.com/2008/02/12/how-much-did-microsoft-pay-for-danger-find-out-here/ http://gigaom.com/2008/02/12/how-much-did-microsoft-pay-for-...
- hop 16y ago$500M spent to buy Danger in 2008 plus assumption of debt and the $260M write down they later took on discontinuing the Kin in 2008. So probably around $.75B - that is still a ton of phone licenses they would need to sell to recoup. And that isn't even taking into account the R%D spent on the Windows 7 phone, which they are said to spend $400M on marketing for. If Apple was only selling OS licenses for the 14M iPhone4's it shipped at MS's price, they would only have made $112M-210M in revenue. http://gorumors.com/business/microsoft-kin-revenue-loss/61542 http://gorumors.com/business/microsoft-kin-revenue-loss/6154... http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/26/microsoft-half-billion-dollars-windows-phone-7/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/26/microsoft-half-billion-doll...