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"I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life"

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Branson frames a tiny convenience as a life transformer, and that inflation is the point. “Freedom of movement” isn’t really about a handset; it’s the entrepreneurial fantasy of being unpinned from place, boss, schedule, even gravity. Coming from the founder of Virgin, a brand built on motion (airlines, trains, space), the line reads like personal testimony and product mythology at once: mobility as identity, not feature.

The specific intent is deceptively practical: celebrate the phone as a tool that lets him run a sprawling empire while in transit. But the subtext is a philosophy of power. If you can be reached anywhere, you can operate everywhere; if work follows you, opportunity does too. That’s the Branson worldview in miniature: life becomes a series of deals, adventures, and quick pivots, all made possible by staying connected.

Context matters because Branson belongs to the cohort of late-20th-century business celebrities who turned tech adoption into a moral stance. In that era, being “always on” was recast as liberation rather than obligation. The line also quietly normalizes a trade-off: the phone “gives” freedom while also tightening the leash of availability. Branson can sell that as transformation because he controls the terms of his connectivity; most people experience it as work’s encroachment.

It works because it’s aspirational without sounding like a pitch. He doesn’t name a brand, just a feeling: movement without loss of command. In Branson-speak, technology isn’t cold infrastructure; it’s the jetpack for a life designed to stay in motion.

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