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The dead iPad Sketch

My iPad is dead. It’s a stiff, bereft of life, it rests in peace (but try telling that to Vodafone)

31 January 2015

9:00 AM

31 January 2015

9:00 AM

My iPad is dead, that’s what’s wrong with it. The plumage don’t enter into it. But since the blasted thing fell off its perch last November, it has somehow run up crippling excess data charges.

At first, I could think of only two possible explanations: either my iPad was pretending to be dead, while secretly downloading movies it personally fancied watching, or the phone company was overcharging me.

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