People will always say your rooting for the other team when you mention some short coming of there team. I myself am an admitted Android and T-mobile fanboy, yet when my team fails me or makes a really stupid decision I will be as vocal as one customer can be. Vocal not because Im all the sudden a fanboy of the opposition, but rather vocal because I infact care about the progression of that platform and really would like them to know that there making bad mistakes. I myself can be as vocal and loud as I wanna be about my disagreements however I’ll still only the muted voice of one customer and thus wont have any impact, However if a well respected tech blog like Engadget speaks out about a products flaws, thousands read and hundreds comment and we have seen it happen before, there large voice sometimes has the abilities to make known a bad move by a manufacturer/carrier and then cause enough noise to have them backpeddle and change there policy ( as was with tmobiles intial 2gb (or5gb) data cap). Though most people probably dont see it, tech blogs are essentially the loud unmuted voice of the consumer.
It reminds of the bush era, and how when you criticized bad moves your government made you were not a patriot (or a bad patriot) however real patriots are passionate about the progression and well being of there country and will speak out when they feel its making bad decsions, not blind citizens (fanboys) agreeing with every stupid move there country makes leading down wrong path… its not much different in the phone world

and besides when I want real apple fanboyism in my tech blogs I just read the one that starts with G.