Oh boy. Can't wait to see how the media will spin this one against RIM.
No spin required. The facts as reported are bad enough. "Major multi-national, billion dollar tech company throws party; man stabbed." In fact, all we need is Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes and we have the beginnings of a screenplay.
Oh boy. Can't wait to see how the media will spin this one against RIM.
1) Grow up, or at least try to act like a grown up.
2) Take off the tinfoil hat and drop the stupid conspiracy BS. It is embarrassing to any actual adult who owns a RIM product.
3) If it wasn't posted here, I doubt very many people would have heard of the story, beyond those who came across the original article.
To be honest they got too many people in there and left them without much security present and too much drink. All the "celebrities" were in a separate VIP room.
Police did not hold 450 guests in, they actually evacuated the place, I don't know where the Telegraph got that from.
RIM has had a lot of bad press in the UK recently, there was all the media hysteria about the part that BBM played in the riots and while the brand has seen growth, it has been with younger poorer demographics. There was a yougov poll that said that for urban professionals, blackberries came pretty low on the list of important tech brands way behind apple, Samsung, Nokia and others. I guess they will need to pitch the BB10 lines carefully to overcome this problem.
The Researcher In Motion organizer of the party should press criminal charges and civil charges against the hoodlum and force the case through the British justice system to the extent the hoodlum receives 100 years of hard labour at Dartmoor Prison and has to pay restitution to the victim until such time as the hoodlum dies. I can see the headline now, "BlackBerry causes youth to die in Dartmoor Prison."
This is the same problem Scion ran into. In trying to appeal to the hip and trendy, especially with a free party, you end up attracting a more rowdy crowd that's only there for the free party. That ends up souring the event for the real target audience.