I have been loyal to Apple for a few year now, but I can’t say that will ever change. I have worn some sort of Converse shoe since I was about 13, so I guess that can be considered loyal; I have bought one pair of Jack Purcell’s after another for about 5 years now; before that I was obsessed with All-Stars; sprinkle in some One-Stars, and I’ve probably had close to 20 pairs of Converse.
I LOVE Hush Puppies, Land’s End and Ben and Jerry all for making me feel happy and comfortable. I HATE Walmart for being a bad corporate entity, unfair to employees, bad for the American workforce, negligent as a retailer and basically trying to convince the population that crap jobs and crap products are all they are entitled to.
I feel so damn lucky to have USAA for insurance and financial services. Search for them on Consumerist.com to see how f-ing awesome they are to their customers.
I used to love my grandfather’s little business; *Finkel Umbrella Frame Co. As a treat, my father took me there on Sat. mornings when I was very young. Men worked at actual machines with fan belts and sparks, and made actual umbrella frames. From the office window, high on the second floor, I watched what looked and sounded like “these dark satanic mills.”
I love Canonical the creators/sponsors of Ubuntu
I love Apple and insanely enough, I love Microsoft . If it wasn’t for MS I never would have begun my love affair with technology and if it wasn’t for MS putting out products that didn’t meet my needs I never would have switched to Linux and OS X (plus for what it is, Windows is a decent product, whether you like MS or not).
I love what I think Google is, but not necessarily what they’re becoming.
I love Aardman Animations and I love Pixar .
I also love Adidas
I love 37 Signals
and lastly I love Dick Blick , Moleskine , Sharpie and Krylon
I don’t so much love any company, I’m more of someone who will use what works for me. I’ve found that Staedtler make some awesome rubbers/sharpeners/pencils and I insist on using stuff made by them because it’s well made.
I also like most computer companies, and find their technologies interesting including but not limited to: Red Hat, IBM, Microsoft, Apple, and other not quite in that business like Wikimedia, Google, MySQL AB and such.
I love General Electric. My Father ran one of their factories in Cleveland Ohio for 30-some years. They were very good to us, and when my Father died, he left me 1500 shares of stock. That’s a nice little blue chip nest egg for me.