Brand Loyalty

== Transcript ==
So you probably heard about or experienced the outages of Blackberry's BBM messenger service system this week, right? Blackberry users woke up one day around the world to find their shit wasn't working, which on social networking sites, spiraled into the the usual Blackberry vs. iPhone wars that people get into, which wasn't helped by the fact that Apple released their iOS 5 on the same day which already had all the Mac-faithful all hyped up to brag about their shit. And by the way, before I get into this, does anyone else not realize that ten years ago, you'd get beat up for being excited for a new operating system being released? Now nerds and jocks rejoice together, it's really touching. Anyway, back to it, here's the thing about arguing about the product you own being better than the product someone else owns. You know you're both fucking idiots, right? This has been going on forever. Nintendo vs Sega, Sony vs Microsoft, Coke vs Pepsi, fucking sticks vs stones, now Rim vs Apple. Fanboys defending their product like they're all soldiers in a war, not realizing that they're all losers in all this. You see, you've been brainwashed -- really, by yourself -- to be loyal to to a multinational corporation that doesn't give a rat's taint about you. You're a dollar sign, they don't care if you defend their product. Do you think that billionaires at Apple or Sony or Microsoft or any of those places are thinking, "Man, that guy that's so passionate about our products, he's so great, we value him as a customer and as a human being." No. They're laughing and counting your money. They joke about you. Stupid sheep, lining up around the block to be the first to get your hands on the next piece of plastic and silicone they slap a new sticker on and ship out the door for you to consume. You're a statistic. You're number 1,259,623 to walk into a retail store, or type a URL into a web browser and get them half your day or week's pay, so that you can say, "Look everyone, I have this new thing! I'm as cool as everyone else who has this thing, and cooler than those who don't!" I'm not saying don't buy products, I love products, I feed the corporate greed machine all the time. But what I'm saying is, don't be delusional. Brand loyalty is for morons. What's to be loyal about? What have they ever done for you? Before Steve Jobs croaked, did he come by and mow your lawn? Has Howard Stringer ever flew in and done your laundry for you? If asked, do you think Bill Gates will drop in and suck your dick? The answer to all three of these questions is no. Look at the features of products you wanna buy, check out the pricing and the features of a competitor's product, and decide what's right for you based on that. Not based on what your friends have, not based on hype, based on what you need the product to do for you, then based on what extras you'd like to have. And buy it knowing that no one gives a shit about you. You're just a few more nickels and dimes being dropped into Scrooge McDuck's big fucking money bin.