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iPhone Lawyers

By Simon Fodden

There are such things — that is, lawyers who don’t use BlackBerrys but, rather, Apple’s iPhone. As proof of this I offer iPhone J.D., a blog by such a lawyer, located in New Orleans. For most of you, this site will be a curiosity, but for some (?) it will help you find those apps that make your practising life easier and more efficient.

Since I started using Macs some years ago now, I’ve watched Apple grow and begin to challenge PCs in various environments — I’d hazard that at least 1/3 of laptops in a law school classroom are Macs — but it’ll be a frostier day than this one in Toronto before IT folks get their firms Apple servers and lawyers switch to the better solution, despite the weak performance of Vista and other MS products.

The latest post on iPhone J.D. lets me close with a mini-rant: it’s about Time magazine’s top ten iPhone apps piece, which it reprises. Hoping against hope that things had changed while I wasn’t looking, I wanted to explore the number one app, Pandora, that music streaming site that had to block Canadians after a year or so of operation. I clicked on his Pandora link and was taken to the Time piece on Pandora. Okay. Not how I would have linked the piece, but okay. Now I looked for a link to the Pandora site. Nada. No link at all accompanying the article. Oh, plenty of little “interactive” buttons to let you bookmark it and otherwise have bundles of fun with Time’s prose. But a link to the thing itself? Nope. When will news purveyors learn that when they’re on the web they must let their readers click through?

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on December 10, 2008 (boomark / email).