"Appalling: BlackBerry Users Shamed for Using BlackBerry"

BlackBerry Users

The New York Times has reported that BlackBerry users are becoming embarrassed for using these handheld devices. What was once the envy of geeks and hipsters, the article chronicles how people hide their BlackBerries in shame for fear of being called out by their iPhone- and Android-totting colleagues.

Alternatively, the report also talked to iPhone and Android users who see BlackBerry being in the same league as Myspace and AOL Instant Messenger.

“I’m ashamed of it,” said a sales representative from Los Angeles of her BlackBerry, so much so she had stopped pulling out her phone when in public. And when she had to check on her emails, she would hid her BlackBerry beneath her iPad.

BlackBerry’s growing lack of desirability is what makes its company, Research In Motion, less likely to turn its struggling fortunes around even with the introduction of its new BlackBerry 10 operating system early next year.

Source: New York Times, via Forbes