[Atrix 4G General] banes:
I have to disagree, you are not hitting them where it counts, you are creating petitions and complaints requesting unlocked bootloaders, I am saying the direction you should be spreading your word is to inform people not to buy Motorola products, you are trying to come up with a solution for our current problem which is not going to work, Motorola will never hand a bunch of whiney geeks the keys to the kingdom, however you can inform people NOT to buy motorola products in the future and that is a strategy with far more foresight and potential effectiveness, what I'm saying is don't just band a bunch of people together to petition unlocking the bootloader, band a bunch of people together to boycott motorola products, because consider how poor this strategy is if you intend to resolve present and future motorola product locking this way, step 1 do poor research on motorola product, step 2 buy locked motorola product, step 3 complain to motorola about locks when you have already voiced your opinion in the form of a monetary investment, step 4 rinse repeat, Im sorry this is an ineffective strategy, boycott moto is an effective strategy

Well I happen to have some expertise in this matter being an SEO (search engine optimization) practitioner so once again I have to disagree with your second point, and this isnt a speculative issue, I can easily demonstrate to you with only the perquisites of your search bar, try these search terms:

atrix

motorola atrix 4g

atrix review

motorola atrix 4g review

motorola atrix

why these terms? these are exactly the terms that people are going to search for the atrix with, NOT keywords like bootloader, rooting or roms, why? because the average user as we have already established is not aware of what those terms mean, so they will stick to what they do know, phone name variations along with a specific keyword like review, and what happens when you search for those terms? 4 star reviews, mentions of Best in Show at CES, how its the fastest / best smartphone yet (albeit these pages are outdated) and guess what? not ONE time does a locked bootloader come up or any complaints for that matter (first page) now I know you probably have the urge to dig through 10 pages of those keywords to find some evidence to backup your claim, forget it, people generally do not go beyond the first page and rarely past the first three results in a search UNLESS they do not find what they are looking for, and I assure you in each of those searches they find EXACTLY what they are looking for in the first three results and that is confirmation that this is a good device

so how exactly do you come up with the negative reviews? why simple type in atrix bootloader, terms very familiar amongst our minority, not so much the average smart phone user who Motorola is targeting, so really all your petitioning and complaining is doing is preaching to the choir

you really need to take a step back and realize you are being very idealistic and your strategies are more wishful thinking pipe dreams than anything effective, but if you are not going to take a realistic self reflection (akin to being delusional) then there really isn't much point in me convincing you to devote your zealous energy in a more useful direction

so once again so that this thread isn't in vain, let me reiterate, you want to do something, dont waste your breath complaining about a bad deal you already got, the devs will sooner crack this device before moto gives into the complaints of a small minority, just DONT BUY MOTOROLA tell your friends DONT BUY MOTOROLA hell even start a petition, even a website DONTBUYMOTOROLA.COM

and realistically since we are the minority, there is still a good chance that our boycotting and our spreading the word, may not even reach far enough to influence motos future decisions, but lets at least not give other companys such as HTC and Samsung incentive to follow motorolas suite and lock down their bootloaders even more