It’s easy to glorify Verizon as an iPhone owner, because AT&T is so awful. But Verizon sucks, too — just in different ways, for the most part.

I’ve been a Verizon Wireless customer since 2004: phones for the first 4 years, and data via tethering and EVDO modems for the entire time. I recently…

Having been a former Verizon user myself and now AT&T, I can say I definitely agree with Marco Arment for the most part. I left Verizon because they wouldn’t let me transfer photos off my phone to my computer without first putting them up on a Verizon website and charging me for the bandwidth.

However, I think the argument is not about which is better, AT&T or Verizon. It’s about AT&T AND Verizon, together, competing on the same platform: the iPhone. In that scenario, they are fighting each other for customers instead of fighting customers.

Competition between companies is good for customers and having the iPhone from both enables that.

PS. You shouldn’t just think about buying Instapaper (his app), you should just buy it.