Why all the Sony hate?

[Tispower]

eab said:
Tispower - Regarding the batteries...

SONY'S CHEMISTS INVENTED THE LITHIUM BATTERY.

No one refutes that, and yes, they do have a pretty respectable battery division. They make over 50% of the world's laptop batteries. Yet their batteries are the ones that blew. And it was proven in a civil court that Apple/HP/Dell's laptops were not to blame. It's actaully pretty sad that Dell received all the bad PR that they did, their stock fell something like 12% with that news story and it was entirely the fault of the battery with the Sony sticker on it.

Ok, you guys totally missed my point. I'll rephrase it:

Why hate a company because of some bad press, (ie the exploding batteries) when those same batteries power many products (like iPods apparently), that aren't just Sony products. I can't think of another example atm, but my point is, hating a company for bad press is one of the uneducated things you can do really. Since when was the press ever totally trustworthy?

I have some other thoughts, but on Andir's request I won't post them.