Microsoft Acquires Danger, Inc (Sidekick)

Danger is not the only one making Sidkicks Sharp actually made a few and most notably Moto made one also.

I'm interested to see what this will do to apple, Probably nothing.
Microsoft is desperate for anything right now.

Microsoft is mirroring the thinking of Apple

That's the first time this has happened. :rolleyes:

Now all of the sidekick kids can get the sidekick 4 in poop brown to match thier Zune!!!!!!

BAHAHAHA! Why is Microsoft trying so hard to copy Apple? Are they really unable to come up with new ideas on their own? Someone should tell them that copying a great company, like Apple, is worse than coming up with something on their own and failing. Another one of Microsoft's problems is that they are just thinking about the NOW when Apple is always thinking about the future (fast money). No one will want a big bulky phone in a few months when they can have something as slim as like the iPhone. I think that Sidekicks would slowly fade out if the iPhone was available for all cell phone companies and if it wasn't so breakable.

:apple: FTW

I have the Sidekick 3 more than a year now. It's a decent device, but heavily tied into the T-mobile/Danger services. It's sad to see MS took over Danger.

MS is really into the teens market now?

Steve Wozniak was on Danger's board, BTW. May still be.

This is a sad sad day. Apparently Sony Ericsson has also joined with Microsoft to develop phones with Windows Mobile. So basically soon there will only be a handful of mobile operating systems and the innovation will be lost. I am not quite sure what they are aiming to do here, are Microsoft trying to capture the youth market as well as the business/smartphone market? The danger os is actually really well designed, better than just about any other mobile os, it is simple, stable, but has a lot of nice touches in it's operation. It doesn't look very Apple like, but fundamentally it is surprisingly similar. This is a sad day where an elegant well thought out operating environment has been purchased by Microsoft to then be butchered and converted to a 'teen windows mobile'

Not Happy

btw zune phone

btw zune phone

I am thinking it will be a zhone... :rolleyes: