I love this company.

Good is not good enough for me. I don’t want a cheap Windows machine with low resolution and little power. I’m willing to pay a few hundred dollars extra for four-way stretch in my ski jacket and… I’m willing to give Verizon Wireless all my money to know that I’ve got the best connections in the business.

What triggered this?

THEY WERE OVERBILLING ME!

Happens all the time when you go to Europe. You add international calling and they say it’s going to come off automatically, but it doesn’t. So I call the international desk, I don’t hold and they immediately take off the charges, as nice as they can be. T-Mobile offers 2G data for free in Europe, and free voice calling to Mexico and Canada, but…I’M NOT SWITCHING!

I used to be on AT&T, I know what a lousy connection can be.

And the thing about wireless is…it’s like skis, if you bought ’em, you love ’em. Everybody tells you their company is the best, that they’re really no different. But I’ll tell you I called the hospital in Vail to find out if my buddy had been admitted. I’d been texting him all day and hadn’t heard back… BECAUSE HE’S ON AT&T! He never got the messages!

As for Verizon 4G LTE… It covers Vail completely.

But you don’t believe what I say, you say the wireless companies are all the same, I say…

Believe what you want.

Clayton Christensen says good enough is good enough, but not for me!

I was interviewed by the BBC today. They couldn’t get a studio, did I have an iPhone?

OF COURSE!

If the app works on an Android, if you can record on an Android, it makes no difference, because these people in the UK were clueless, iPhone was all they knew.

And I feel sorry for you if you cannot afford the best. Sucks, I know. But if you’ve got some bread, why not go for it? Oftentimes it doesn’t even cost any more!

Assuming you know what to buy. Information is at your fingertips, but you refuse to research. And when it comes to political issues, misinformation reigns supreme. Everybody’s full of crap online, putting forth their own agenda.

And now it sounds like I’ve contradicted myself.

But the truth is if you’re a savvy surfer, you can get to the bottom of the issue easily. Go to Amazon, throw out the bad reviews, they’re always from cranks, who are unsatisfiable, or they had a delivery issue or the product was dead out of the box, and then read the rest. And you do go to Amazon, right? Why pay less when Amazon gives such great service?

We do live in the service economy. And don’t ask me to endorse the employment policies of these enterprises, I don’t work there, but I will tell you…if you provide something great and treat me right I’m gonna give you my business.

Others shop on price only.

But you get what you pay for, never forget that.

And today your mobile phone is your lifeline. And it doesn’t matter how good it is if you’ve got no connection. And without high speed data, you’re not operating.

E-mail me all you want that I’m wrong. E-mail me that Verizon doesn’t work overseas, demonstrating your ignorance. E-mail me that it just doesn’t matter.

But it does.

P.S. All those of you staying with other companies for the unlimited data… IT ISN’T! If you don’t know someone who’s been throttled at AT&T, you know no one who uses their phone. And did you know SoftBank was willing to write off its entire investment in Sprint when the merger with T-Mobile failed? These are the owners you’re paying fealty to. They know it’s just business. Kind of like Donald Trump, when he takes companies bankrupt. Don’t get too attached to brands, because they’re in flux. Once upon a time I’d buy only Sony, that’s been replaced by Samsung. And theoretically Verizon could be superseded by another carrier…BUT IT HASN’T HAPPENED YET!