Do you roll your eyes at yourself whenever you, say, drive a car?
We're surrounded by things that have their company's branding prominently plastered on them. Hell, stuff like luxury bags (eg: Louis Vuitton) exist specifically to flaunt a company's branding.
Of course, it would be nice if we weren't surrounded by marketing and advertising everywhere all the time, but that's beside the point.
Uh, no, I don't; obviously aesthetic judgments are much more subtle than that.
> but that's beside the point.
uh that is precisely the point. Hence if there is some trivial way to avoid it, I like people who do it.
For instance yeah your car has branding you can't avoid. But you know what you can avoid? Those stupid license plate holders that dealers put on to advertise themselves. Better than nothing.
In some jurisdictions you can avoid this problem by having no licence plate at all and if you upgrade the car frequently enough, you can avoid ever having a plate.
People who are so image conscious that they care about that kind of thing in themselves or others really seem like they have their priorities in the wrong place.
It ends up being a great filter, leaving things around to bother the kinds of people you don’t want to impress.
I understand that, but keeping the default email signature might also mean that said person is so busy or detached from technology that they don't even know/have-time-to change their email signature.
When I read "Sent from my iPhone" I feel sorry they don't have a proper keyboard and that they have to touch cold, hard glass instead; what an unpleasant tactile experience!
And then I remember I now have to do the same, because someone switched off my fantastic BlackBerry (R.I.P. until resurrection comes!)...