You can be passionate about anything you want. Why do so many people choose to be passionate about their cell carrier?
I was talking to Aviraj last week, trying to convince him to get an iPhone. Aviraj had a common complaint, he didn't want to switch to AT&T. Ok, I'm not going to tell anyone that they should switch to a cell phone carrier that doesn't have the features they want, the coverage they need, or the price they can afford.
But I did point this out to Aviraj: why are people so damn passionate about the cell phone carrier they use? Most people use shitty Dell computers, drive crappy, broken down cars, and buy the lowest quality, but cheap, products they can from Walmart.
Yet more than anything else, people put their foot down when it comes to picking a cell carrier. For 5 years before the iPhone came out, I was happy with T-Mobile. It probably has the weakest network in this country, but it had what I wanted: it was GSM so I could use phones imported from Japan, and it was cheap. Think about this: you have a device in your pocket that can let you call anyone in the world, access anything on the internet. Yet if it doesn't work that one time, when you are at that one dude's house, who lives on the top of that random mountain in Santa Cruz... well, life must really suck. To that point, Aviraj sent me this hilarious video of Louis CK on Conan O' Brian. "Everything's Amazing & Nobody's Happy" Kate said it well when we were watching one of the Verizon commercials last night with the weak AT&T map: why do I care about that unless I live in one of those other states? (and let the die hard Verizon customers start commenting now :) )



















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