Is the market not driving towards greater integration of applications, not stand-alone devices? While the Kin’s functionality may be superior to other social networking tools, the main impetus behind most of today’s mobile technologies revolves around cramming as much stuff in a single interface as possible. The iPhone’s apps are the stuff of legend, but it’s a mediocre phone at best. However, only a fragment of the population will augment their voice requirements with a second device; they’ll simply tolerate dropped calls and pocket-dialing miscues. Just as they’re tolerate less-than-optimal social networking mediums.