[michaelmartin]

Surely there was a better way to handle this? 1.1 million users in 8 hours on an un-official version? That's brilliant enthusiasm, which Blackberry don't often get these days. Simply shutting that down and telling them to register for some email updates is a bit of a dampener.

Couldn't they have become some massive trial group etc.? A giant set of early adopters to keep rolling out improved versions too (All with a big "alpha" caveat if that's what it takes), that can get people not yet in the group excited.

I think the little bit of hype and excitement from interested users is just the sort of thing BlackBerry needs, and putting a plug on that is crazy.