"I like X, therefore any negative information about X is lies propagated by their enemies" is a dangerous position to take.
This was the position I took with the iPhone 4 long ago because of the nonsense "antennagate" thing. I said forget Consumer Reports, the phone works fine. The tech magazines were (and still are?) also touting the latest "iPhone killer" random Android phone, and I said nah they're paid. If I listened to them, I'd have like a Motorola DROID EpiC XX2.
> I said forget Consumer Reports, the phone works fine.
If it works for you, then it works for you. It's not the same as saying people for whom it doesn't work are motivated liars, though.
I do suspect there were motivated liars involved, at least the media just wanting to benefit from hyping things up, because the claim was so bogus. I'm not that unique of a person that the iPhone 4 works specially for me. Actual buyers had the option to return the phone if it had issues, and basically nobody was doing that, both anecdotally and by stats.