Originally Posted by
jvic31 Well said Clitrenta. Original poster was probably trying to start a flame war (Mission accomplished), talks about his love of these phones, or whatever, the dismisses competing products as toys. A common theme among Blackberry devotees is that it's a solid reliable tool, and that other devices are toys. There is a profound ignorance to these claims which many are tired of ignoring.
Many competing products are in fact incredibly useful and versatile business tools. Blackberry is great for many things but part of me gets annoyed when a Blackberry fan urges an end user to buy something like a Torch when what they really want is an iPhone. Some people don't understand the difference until it's too late, and they are left with something that they won't enjoy nearly as much. Those who urge people to buy Blackberry are the types who fixate on anecdotal non-issues from the competition (Many Blackberry lovers assume all iphones have broken antennas) and ignore the record low customer satisfaction results RIM has recently earned.
RIM, as a company, and many of their die-hard fans have been deluding themselves into thinking that things are going great, when really, RIM put it's feet up in 2006 and stopped innovating for years. They had the market virtually to themselves and they hurt that huge advantage by dismissing emerging competition as 'toys'.
So definitely be loyal if you want, you can do it without dissing the competition, you can even do it with proclaiming it, and if you do diss, expect some bite back, because the competition is pretty good.