I canceled mine, somewhat for UX reasons, but I'm with you it blows my mind that their UX isn't better given their resources.
Although I've worked in a small company that got big and subsequently lost their speed in making the product improvements/changes that led to their success in the first place.
I suppose the difference is when you're small you work for your customers and when you're big you work for your investors.
You're talking about making money, but no mention of making music.
A better argument is that art is getting more technical.
or even just that's it's getting physically bigger.
Also, when music is commercial it's still called music.
Art stops being art when it's made for money. It becomes illustration, design, decoration or some such thing.
Historically a lot of EU or American artists are pretty much trust fund kids. because if you need to think about money all the time... you can't make art. Art requires some modicum of genuine freedom and most people need money to find it.
I would argue that the fact it's in a design museum rather than an art museum makes it design in that context.
Speaking very broadly:
Designers manifest other people's ideas for money.
Art is more when you bring your own ideas into the world because you want to.
I think this feels like a step forward, but I bet it's going to be a while before this is usable for heavy PS work.
The main issues for me are that I use photoshop with as many keyboard shortcuts as possible and if I need a bt keyboard then to me it's already more cumbersome than a small laptop.
Plus, photoshop clobbers RAM. There's no way you could use it at speed on a wee tablet.
I've lived in Baltimore for 5 years(to escape DC), but I'd never work in Baltimore. I came here to because it isn't technically advanced. Beyond that it's packed to the brim with dope fiends. You've gotta be in third world don't get robbed mode 100% of the time, there are 17k abandoned townhouses in Baltimore, garbage everywhere, but the rent is super cheap if that's what you're into.
I've never been to Grand Rapids. If all goes to plan it'll stay that way.
Berlin is one the most incredible cities on earth right now.
Money turns into time tokens.
Therefore reducing your cost of living = more time.
It's a different way of thinking and I like it. The comfort & security that comes from a steady paycheck can go in an instant. Don't let that false security keep you stuck in the rat race. Nobody wants to pay for you if they don't have to.
I went to someone else's startup to escape corporate then success turned it quite corporate as well. The process left me burnt.
Now I contract and it's not all roses, but I would never go back to the office life.
Corporate was unhealthy for me in mind body and spirit. You get lumpy, you drink more, you eat garbage, you sleep worse, potential back & cardiac problems down the road and most importantly sex dies.
fwiw, my father was an alimony ridden fine artist and my step father was a senior partner at a big 4 accounting firm.
My dad was a really happy, well read and interesting guy. My stepdad's life is textbook american dream perfection and it's a very sad and bland one.