Originally Posted By: altman
Originally Posted By: Dignan
It's sad that the Kin made it through and the Courier did not.


I suspect that may be more to do with how far from reality the courier "demo reels" were.

People seem to think that courier was really doing all that stuff on the bench, whereas the far more likely reality was that the courier project had these amazing goals but it was nowhere near the concepts. Remember the courier pictures of two windows mobile devices glued into a leather folio from 2009?

If you were as cynical as me, you might think that the concept videos were leaked by the courier team to try and drum up some customer "pull" that would help them get internal support to enlarge their team 10x to actually make the product's functionality approach the demo.

Oh don't get me wrong, I never thought it was a functioning product.

I've agreed with the general consensus that the Courier might have just been too difficult to bring to reality from concept. The user interface they were displaying was certainly ambitious and not a simple feat to pull off.

Still, I wish they'd tried, and the rumor is that J Allard was pissed that they didn't. I don't know if he quit over it or not, but I think they're going to miss him.
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