Flutterby™! : Gizmodo payback

I never, ever, (ever!) thought I'd be linking to Gizmodo, but Horseshoes and Hand Grenades: Joel Johnson Returns...to Spank Us All for Supporting Crap is worth a read:

Then you had the audacity to complain about broken phones, half-assed firmware that bricked your gear, and winner-takes-nothing arms races between the companies whose gear your bought and the hackers who had nothing better to do than try to fix it. Do you realize how ridiculous that is? Programmers with free time did more to help you get quality products than you ever did by buying the broken gear in the first place.