I feel like a traitor

   

    I feel like a traitor. I've recently, after quite a hiatus, decided to get back into illustration and try and make a go of earning money through an Etsy shop. I graduated back in 2015 from university with a degree in visual communications. After one failed attempt at working for a business, I totally crashed and burned and basically had a nervous breakdown. I won't go into all of that, but it burned me out and I went from one crap manual labor job to another until finally, Covid-19 brought that to an end. 

    Like most people, I've been home unemployed for the last few months and I'm now going to try and use my artistic talent to make some money without having to leave the house. If you've followed my blog, which you probably haven't, I've always been a staunch anti-Apple person. I can't stand them, and I've always vowed that I would never buy an Apple product. Well, today I purchased an Ipad! I feel like a traitor, to myself at least. I won't be receiving it for a couple of weeks thanks to the slowed-down infra-structure in the U.S. due to Covid-19. I've been hearing for years about how great the Ipad is for artists, and that a program called Procreate is the best app to use on it. Procreate only being available for IOS. I've got an Android tablet that I've been using for a while for art, and it's perfectly usable. So why get the Ipad? I'm not even sure I know why. Maybe I'm just tired of bucking the system. I see plenty of artists who seem to be making at least somewhat of a living making artwork that is no better than mine. Maybe I just want to be a member of the club instead of the one that's outside looking in.

    Frankly, I keep forgetting that I have this blog. I'm going to try and update here more often what with the state of the world and all. So stay tuned and I'll try and post here once in a while about what's going on.

AT and T's and Apples Evil Plan Revealed...

Talk about curious timing! First Apple unveils their newest plot to enslave the web, the Ipad. They announce this wonderful sounding plan which will let it's users get "unlimited" web surfing through AT and T without a contract, and have recently announced how they've surpassed even their expectations by selling more than 2 million Ipads in just 60 days.

Then, just days after making this announcement, their partner in evil AT and T have announced that users of their service using smartphones, and the Ipad will now have a 2Gb cap on data usage. The Dallas-based AT and T said Wednesday that it would offer two choices: a $15 data plan for 200 megabytes of data, and a $25 plan for up to 2 gigabytes, with additional charges if the user goes over the allotted amount. A vast majority of subscribers use less than 2 gigabytes, suggesting a mass migration to less expensive plans.

My question is, if AT and T had announced these caps before the launch of the Ipad, would Apple have sold so many units in just 60 days? I think not. I'm wondering how many Ipad owners out there right now who ponied up the extra moolah for a 3G Ipad are feeling like they've been fleeced!