Comments on launch carriers especially AT&T gave it little love at launch, reps are cited to push iphone and samsung, experience does vary
http://forums.crackberry.com/t-f68/my-z10-experience-att-786171/
Yes carrier reps were pushing other phones because they didn't want to deal with the angry frustrated customers and the returns anymore.
Same thing happened with palm.
Also, article pointing to berry asking SEC to investigate how false rumor started about z10 rates being higher than normal, it's patently false. Mindshare is a powerful thing the press negativity is working as self fulfilling prophesy of demise
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/item/32262-blackberry-wants-probe-of
Hahaha Blackberry has two class action lawsuits for misleading its investors by pulling stunts like that.
"The suit accuses BlackBerry of
?making a series of materially false and misleading statements and omissions related to the Company?s business and operations,? relating to its Sept. 20 pre-announcement of a huge quarterly loss. Seven days later, the company reported a $965 million operating loss."
"In reality, the BlackBerry 10 was not well-received by the market, and the company was forced to ... lay off approximately 4,500 employees, totalling approximately 40 percent of its total workforce," the complaint alleges.
http://allthingsd.com/20131006/blackberrys-busy-weekend-of-shareholders-lawsuits-and-buyout-chatter/
And:
"A class action lawsuit against BlackBerry Ltd. is demanding financial compensation on behalf of Canadian shareholders who bought stock between September 2012 and September 2013, saying the company did not declare the full extent of its financial difficulty to retail investors.
The lawsuit was launched Tuesday in Quebec Superior Court. It is the second class action lawsuit on behalf of shareholders, following one launched in New York on Oct. 5.
"For almost a full year, BlackBerry management made market statements based on prophecy rather than fact. Thousands of Canadians who invested in BlackBerry Ltd. in the past year have lost hundreds of millions of dollars." said Tony Merchant, the lawyer representing current and former BlackBerry shareholders.
The class action lawsuit alleges that BlackBerry senior management misrepresented how well the BlackBerry 10 line of smartphones was received by consumers and the public.
It also alleges the full extent of BlackBerry?s financial trouble wasn?t revealed until Sept. 20, 2013, when the company announced a writedown of close to $1 billion in the third quarter and said it would lay off 40 per cent of its workforce."
http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/#!/content/1.2055257
Bb10 was such a failure it cost rim over 6 billion dollars. That is not perception that is reality.
So is the fact that rim is EXITING the consumer market because of it.