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Microsoft Quickly Revises "Sexting" Ad For Kin Phone
theodp writes "Microsoft's Kin mobile phone project came under fire as Consumer Reports and others pointed out that a promotional video looked like an inappropriate endorsement of 'sexting,' prompting a quick edit and an apologetic tweet. 'The video,' observed Consumer Reports, 'includes a downright creepy sequence [beginning around 0:33] in which a young man is shown putting a Kin under his shirt and apparently snapping a picture of one of his naked breasts. The breast is then shown on the phone's screen, just before the guy apparently sends it to someone. Next we see the face of a young woman, seemingly the recipient, with an amused expression...'"
Mother's hide your daughters. I hear 'The Nippler' is in town.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Gynecomastia_001.jpg
Clearly I was a teenager in the wrong millennium.
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They could have shown the Blue Balls Of Death.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
The Kin series of phone seems to be all about easy sharing with a green button dedicated to that called the "Kin Spot"... but well, that can be taken the wrong way, can't it?
Sexting with kin? Now your incest can have more manboobular visuals? What?
Hello? Also this ad is terrible. Atleast cover some of the features of the device, I can already put my current cellphone up my shirt o that's not a selling point
Divide a cake by zero. Is it still a cake?
TPIUWP
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Fucking Puritans
Amusing choice of adjectives.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Seriously? Is people who think like this a large enough fraction of their market base that they actually feel like they have to appease them?
The only reason to defend sexting is if you like child pornography. You aren't a ... pedophile... are you?
I mean, think of the children.
The children know that Freedom is what we believe in our hearts to be morally right! And we here in America love our freedom, no matter what some experts would like us to believe! After all, 9/11 happened because they hated our Freedom, so anyone that can't think of the children might as well be terrorists. It's about Family Values.
Family, Faith and Freedom are what separate us and make us the greatest nation in the world!
God Bless America.
"All these years believing you're the signified monkey, only to find out you're just a big hunk of nobody cares."
Sexting is a "phenomena" of prudes having to face the fact that not everyone experiences the same reservations as them about nudity. No-one is forcing them to participate.
Clearly you've never received a visit from "Mr. Goatse" on your cell. I had to soak mine in bleach for an hour, and Verizon wouldn't honor the warranty after that.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Showing the pleasure you cannot have with an ipad. :)
The world has moved to an audio and visual level and expects it anytime, anywhere.
We have the software, hardware and bandwidth, so lets have fun.
Why wait for a US telco or "Jobs" to understand that people like to reach out and relate in both the visual and emotional?.
MS could have done it in a more nudge nudge way, but when has MS ever really understood marketing beyond a tool of market control.
But for buzz and a way better than Apple hardware offereing - a real win
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Apple is showing us a new way to get WORK done and increase productivity...MS is showing us how to make asses out of ourselves.
I mean, think of the children.
The Thought Police would like a word with you. Come along please.
"Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing. " ~ Poe
'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.' - Mao Tse-tung
People have bodies.. get over it.
As the spokesman for the brain-in-vat segment of the Slashdot community, I submit that you are an insensitive clod.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
...because no one else will.
Microsoft's Kin mobile phone project
Hate to be a 'kin grammar Nazi but there's a 'kin apostrophe missing there (to indicate missing letters - actually there should be one after as well, but that looks silly and the "g" is usually silent anyway).
As in: "'kin hell, some 'kin perv has sent me a 'kin picture of his 'kin moob! Ugh, its 'kin mingin'!"
They've failed to 'kin notice that, but they're worried about 'kin man tits?
(Plus, Kin Sexting sounds a bit incestuous...)
(To appease Pratchett fans, perhaps the next Android phone will be the "-ing"...)
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
Send pictures of your dong to Microsoft now!
Probably won't work - I'm sure that the Kin will detect those yellow dots they put on banknotes and refuse to take the picture. I expect even Vietnam have adopted them by now.
(Disclaimer: this is a joke based on the fact that us westerners think the name of the Vietnamese currency is funny. If you find yellow spots on the other sort of dong, please seek medical advice).
Which gives me a brilliant idea! Soccer moms of the world!! Get your sprogs' privates tattooed with yellow dots and no nasty pervert will ever be able to take photos or print pictures of them!!!
Hang on - I need to call the patent office...
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
Maybe it depends on the text message. For example:
"My nipples explode with delight!" - BAD
"I am no longer infected." - GOOD
"My hovercraft is full of eels." - MOSTLY HARMLESS
Sine when does Microsoft support "sexting" your "kin"?
What is this, rural Arkansas?