Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
There may have been a lot of behind-the-scenes machinations at Microsoft and Verizon that resulted in the discontinuation of the Kin One and the Kin Two, but there were also many marketplace miscues that resulted in the demise of the handsets. Here, then, were Kin's seven deadly sins:
Lust. With the Kin handsets, Microsoft was too eager to get its hands into the pockets of young
