Sorry that it has been quiet on iPhone J.D. for the last two days. I've been busy at work, plus I've been preparing my presentations for ABA TECHSHOW next week. I've heard from quite a few of you who are attending, and I believe that the Taste of Techshow dinner that Josh Barrett and I are hosting next Thursday was the first dinner to sell-out, so I hope that means that there will be lots of iPhone J.D. readers in Chicago next week. But let's turn from next week to this past week and take a look at the news of note:
- Nicole Martinelli of Cult of Mac interviews New York attorney Carol Gerber who is teaching lawyers how to make the most of their iPads, a topic near and dear to my heart as well.
- There have been some news stories, and some discussions in the Comments here on iPhone J.D., about the third generation iPad getting warmer than the prior two models. James Galbraith of Macworld wrote a good article on this issue.
- Alex Heath of Cult of Mac reminds us of something that is probably obvious, but worth repeating: 4G LTE on the new iPads can be really fast, but that means that you might consume a lot of data, which will cost you a lot of money in fees. Let's be careful out there.
- Brian Chen of the New York Times writes that the display on the new iPad is so good that many websites contain graphics that simply aren't up to the task, although the text looks fantastic.
- Walter Isaacson, author of the Steve Jobs book, is a graduate of my high school and I saw him speak there last week. I'm sure it is the same presentation that he has been giving around the country for the last few months (although he did a good job of tailoring it to our school and events in New Orleans), and it was very interesting. I mention this because Isaacson recently took some of the stories from his book and from his presentation and wrote an article for the Harvard Business Review called "The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs." It's a good read.
- Now that the new iPad has been out for a while, a number of journalists have taken the time to write in-depth reviews that I think are worth reading if you are interested in all of the details of the new iPad. First, Jacqui Cheng of Ars Technica wrote this review.
- Second, attorney Jeremy Horwitz of iLounge posted this review.
- Third, Jeff Gamet of The Mac Observer wrote this review.
- Fourth, Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote this review.
- Fifth, Daniel Eran Dilger of AppleInsider wrote this review.
- While this one is not an extensive review, you might be interested to see what Dallas attorney Tom Mighell thinks of the new iPad. He wrote the book iPad in One Hour for Lawyers.
- Speaking of Mighell, he wrote this article for Attorney at Work on using an iPad for ebriefs, electronic versions of appeal briefs.
- Utah attorney Peter Summerill of the MacLitigator website also published a short review of the new iPad.
- The Jacqui Cheng review reminded me of this list of Siri text dictation shortcuts by Jim Rhoades. I linked to them last year after the iPhone 4S was released, but if you don't remember them from last time, or if you don't have an iPhone 4S but you have a new iPad, this list is definitely worth reviewing.
- Ryan Faas of Computerworld considers what the new iPad means for business.
- Apple sold 3 million iPads last weekend. I'm sure that they sold a bunch more during this past week. Lex Friedman of Macworld provides some perspective on how impressive the 3 million number really is.
- Speaking of impressive Apple numbers, AppleInsider notes (like the rest of the business world did) that AAPL stock passed $600 this week.
- Part of the Apple stock rally is probably attributable to Apple CEO Tim Cook's announcement this past Monday that Apple would issue dividends and buyback stock. Macworld has an edited transcript of the announcement.
- By the way, I don't own any Apple stock, and lest anyone think that they should get stock advice from me, consider that I last purchased Apple stock in 2000 when it was at 18 and I sold it in 2004 when it was at 27. I try not to think about the fact that since then, the stock has split and it is now over 600. It's a good thing I make my living as a lawyer and not as an investor.
- Don't you hate it when you are on a plane and the flight attendant tells you that you must put your iPhone and iPad away during takeoff and landing? According to Nick Bilton of the New York Times, the FAA is reconsidering this policy.
- GoodReader — an essential app for me and many other lawyers who use an iPad — was updated yesterday to support the retina display of the new iPad.
- And finally, protection from random gunfire may not be the main reason that most people should use an iPhone, but it is probably the #1 reason for a certain fellow in the Netherlands. According to an article in Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf (click here for the Google Translation to English), brought to my attention by this article by Victor Agreda in TUAW, a 49-year old contractor in Rotterdam was driving his car when someone started firing a gun. The unnamed man told De Telegraaf, as translated by Google: "The bullet went straight through my phone back and then only in my chest. My cell phone worked as a brake job and probably was adjusted so that no serious damage was done. " Because of his iPhone, the man lived. I hope that it wasn't an iPhone 4S, because I suspect that our dear friend Siri would not have been so lucky. Here is the photograph from the police investigation that accompanies the newspaper article:
