Andy Rubin, photo by Yoichiro Akiyama (Tokyo, Japan)

Summary: Microsoft pretty much axes the creation of Andy Rubin (which it paid hundreds of millions for), but Rubin throws down the gauntlet from Google's side

Dead Microsoft products multiply as SideKick joins the likes of KIN, as expected. Microsoft just bought and killed Danger, which Android's father fled from.

"Sidekick service to be shut off May 31" says one headline and others refer specifically to T-Mobile [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22]. SideKick will no doubt become an item of memorabilia, just not a very valuable one (as it was never popular). There are not many users left anyway and "[e]nd of era for Danger" call it Microsoft boosters. Next one in the pipeline (Windows Mobile, Danger, KIN) is Vista Phony 7, which judging by the number of sales so far is facing a similar destiny. Microsoft cannot compete with new products anymore; it has no network effect potential. ⬆