Negative online reader comments about BB, true or...
Do you think most of the negative reader comments written about blackberry on tech sites are just genuine feelings or could there be a campaign behaind it. I would tend to doubt it but I was reading wikipedia about IBM's OS/2 and apperantly Microsoft had a number of "evangilists" out to demonize it all they could. Quote from article:
On the flip side, Team OS/2's lack of structure meant that it was vulnerable. Various journalists have documented a "dirty tricks" campaign by Microsoft.[5] Online, numerous individuals (nicknamed "Microsoft Munchkins" by John C. Dvorak)[6] used pseudonyms to attack OS/2 and manipulate online discussions. Whittle was the target of a character assassination campaign, and anyone friendly to OS/2 faced numerous vociferous attacks as well.[5] Some journalists who were less than enthusiastic about OS/2 received death threats and other nasty e-mail from numerous sources, always identified in taglines as "Team OS/2". Ultimately, at least some of Microsoft's efforts were exposed on Will Zachmann's Canopus forum on CompuServe, where the owner of one particular account, ostensibly belonging to "Steve Barkto", (who had been attacking OS/2, David Barnes, Whittle, and other OS/2 fans) was discovered to be funded by the credit card of Rick Segal, a high-level Microsoft employee / evangelist, who had also been active in the forums.[7] James Fallows, a nationally renowned journalist, even weighed in to state that the stylistic fingerprint found in the Barkto posts were almost certainly a match with the stylistic fingerprints in the Microsoft evangelist's postings.[8]
Will Zachmann sent an open letter to Steve Ballmer, futilely demanding a public investigation into the business practices of the publicly traded Microsoft. What is clear is that Microsoft was taking seriously the threat posed by Team OS/2 and their online and real-world activities.
Maybe where once people were paid to do this type of thing the masses just do it themselves, all for the "cause" of which ever device they use?