Conspiracy amongst handset manufacturers eg Samsung paid anti-HTC trolls
To people that say a major company would never pay trolls to post negative information about a vastly smaller competitor who is already in dire financial trouble, please read the link below (I have also pasted the original article at the bottom).
This post is related to BlackBerry since many people have said that large companies (such as, for example, a company like Samsung) would never waste their time or money trying to bash a smaller company (like BlackBerry) with vastly smaller market share and almost no chance of becoming a major threat to their dominance.
Many have also said the notion of 'paid trolls' is just paranoid conspiracy theory.
That Samsung did this to HTC is no conspiracy. It is 100% fact. Proven in a court of law.
Note: I have no knowledge that any company has done the same thing to BlackBerry. I posted this only to demonstrate the idea that, this COULD HAVE POSSIBLY happened to BlackBerry, is completely plausible.
Again, I stress that I'm NOT claiming that this DID happen; I'm just showing that there is an undisputed factual precedent for exactly this type of thing happening to even 'small fish' like BlackBerry.
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Original article:
Associated Press (via Businessweek)
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2013-...ng-local-rival
BGR blog on the AP story
Samsung paid anti-HTC trolls, gets fined in Taiwan | BGR
HTC has enough problems right now and it doesn?t need to deal with paid trolls bashing its products in online reviews as well. The Associated Press, per Bloomberg Businessweek, reports that Taiwan?s Fair Trade Commission has slapped Samsung with a fine worth about USD $340,000 for paying a pack of trolls to bash HTC products and praise Samsung products in online forums. It?s a little odd that Samsung would bother to organize an anti-HTC troll campaign given that it already dwarfs its Taiwanese rival in marketing spending and that HTC has been suffering from a series of self-inflicted wounds�for the past two years. If Samsung is willing to create an online troll ring to take whacks at HTC, it makes you wonder the sort of stealth operations that it has going to bash bigger fish such as Apple.
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