Fourteen years of iPhone J.D.

iPhone J.D. turns fourteen years old today.  When I wrote my first post on this website, in which I explained why I liked using an iPhone in my law practice, I was still trying to encourage attorneys to consider using an iPhone.  There is certainly no longer a need to do that.  Now, the focus here is on how to make the most out of an iPhone ... and iPad, and other Apple mobile technology.

Every year on this anniversary, I take a look back at the past year.  (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13).  Let's do it again, first by looking at which posts over the prior 12 months were the most popular.  The fact that these posts were so popular often sheds some light on what has been on the minds of attorneys and other folks using an iPhone or iPad.  Here, in order, are the top ten most viewed posts published in the last 12 months:

1. Review: LG OLED C1 Series TV -- amazing 4K HDR television for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV 4K users.  You may not think of a TV as an iPhone accessory, but my LG television has been the perfect way to show off the incredible 4K video and photos that I can take with my iPhone.  It also works incredibly well with my Apple TV.  LG now sells an updated model, the C2 Series, and it is a little bit brighter, but otherwise both models are excellent and incredibly similar.  Right now, they both cost about the same on Amazon, so you might as well get the C2, but if you can find a cheaper price on a C1. I would recommend that you just get the C1.
2. Review: eufyCam 2 Pro -- wireless security camera with HomeKit support.  I wrote that review shortly before the thirteenth anniversary last year, but I am including it in this year's list because it got so many pageviews during the past year.  I continue to be very happy with these outdoor security cameras.  My wife and I pay attention to them almost daily.
3. Review: COMPLY Foam Apple AirPods Pro 2.0 Earbud Tips.  I wrote that review when I was using my first-generation AirPods Pro, but I continue to use these replacement earbud tips with my second-generation AirPods Pro.  For my ears, they are much more comfortable, and unlike Apple's own tips which don't stay in my ears very well, these COMPLY tips help my AirPods Pro to stay in place.
4. Review: Anker Nano Pro (40W).  This is a great little product.  It is barely bigger than the power adapter that Apple used to include with the iPhone, but it provides 4x the power and has two USB-C ports.
5. Review: Satechi 108W USB-C 3-Port GaN Wall Charger.  This is an even better portable charger.  You get 3 USB-C ports.  You get 108W, so there is plenty of power for all three ports.  It uses GaN so it is much smaller than similar products.  It works great in an office—I use mine there every day to provide power for an iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch—and because the prongs fold down, it is also a great travel charger.  I've been really happy with this device.
6. Review: On/Go at-Home COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Self-Test -- let your iPhone help you test for COVID.  I've used lots of different at-home COVID-19 tests, but this one is my favorite because it works well with an iPhone app that walks you step-by-step through the process, with built-in timers and very clear instructions.
7. Why lawyers will love iPadOS 16.  I wrote that post when iPadOS 16 was first announced.  We had to wait for iPadOS 16.1 to first try the new operating system on the iPad, but for the most part this new version has worked well.  Stage Manager is the one feature on which the jury is still out.  Sometimes when I use it, it works great.  Other times, it feels like it is still a work-in-progress.  Most of the time that I use my iPad, I don't use the new Stage Manager mode.
8. Review: Apple Watch Series 7.  The larger screen was the major new feature, but for many folks like me who were using older models of the Apple Watch, the Series 7 was a great opportunity to start taking advantage of other features added in the Series 6 such as the increased speed.  I've been so happy with my Series 7 that I saw no need to upgrade to a Series 8 this year. 
9. Review: MagSafe Battery Pack from Apple -- small, lightweight solution for additional iPhone power when you are on-the-go.  I'm glad to see that this post made the Top 10 list.  When I purchased this product a few months ago, it had already been out for almost a year, so my review was certainly not an early review.  But I continue to love this small battery pack, and I encourage you to get one if your iPhone supports MagSafe charging.  It is so small that it is easy to slip it in a pocket.  It is so easy to use: just put it on the back of the iPhone and let the magnets align it.  And it provides lots of extra power to an iPhone to help you get through a long day, even when you have been doing things like taking 4K video that drain the battery.
10. LIT SUITE -- the best litigation apps for the iPad, now available for the Mac.  I wrote this post in September because LIT SOFTWARE was a sponsor of iPhone J.D. that month.  But I'm sure that the reason that most lawyers read that post is that a major new feature came to the LIT SUITE a few months ago: the ability to run the company's great iPad apps on a Mac.  Whether you are preparing trial exhibits in TrialPad, annotating transcripts in TranscriptPad, or preparing a document production in DocReviewPad, you can now go back-and-forth between the iPad and Mac and continue working in the same apps.  No other developer has supported lawyers using iPads as much as LIT SOFTWARE over the years, and I love that they are still finding ways to add major new features to these incredibly useful apps.

Visitors to iPhone J.D.  Every year, I use this post to share some statistical information on iPhone J.D. visitors, to the extent that I can figure it out using the tools at my disposal — specifically, the Google Analytics service.

Google Analytics reports that, during the past 12 months, about 48% of readers visited from a smartphone, and 94% of those were iPhones.  For folks using a computer to access iPhone J.D., about 53% used a Mac, about 43% used a PC, and about 3% used Linux.  There was a single person who accessed iPhone J.D. from a BlackBerry device during this past year; hopefully that person has now updated to an iPhone and is much happier.

About 58% of people accessing iPhone J.D. use Safari.  About 32% use Chrome.  Edge and Firefox are almost 2% each.

I know that lawyers around the world use the iPhone and iPad.  About 53% of iPhone J.D. visitors during the past year were in the U.S., which is about the same as last year.  Just over 7% were in the UK, down from 10% last year.  The other countries with a large number of visitors were Canada, Australia, Germany, Czech Republic, China, and India.

Every year, I also look at the top cities for the folks who visit iPhone  J.D.  London was the #1 city in 2015, 2020, and 2021, but every other year, New York has been #1.  Well start spreading the news, because the Big Apple is back on top again this year:

1. New York
2. London
3. Prague
4. Chicago
5. Los Angeles
6. Dallas
7. Ashburn
8. Atlanta
9. Singapore
10. Sydney

There were a few big changes on the list this year.  First, Prague in the Czech Republic has never made the Top 10 list before, and this year it was all the way at #3.  English is not one of the top languages in Prague, but the city has been called a potential tech giant, and I suspect that the interest in tech provides some explanation for the surprisingly high ranking this year. 

Second, I've never seen Ashburn, Virginia in the Top 10 list before, although it has been in the Top 20 for the past few years.  Ashburn is a relatively small city, but it is a major hub for internet traffic, so perhaps that explains the ranking: people who are actually reading from other locations are being considered residents of Ashburn by the Google Analytics service.  Or maybe there are just lots of visitors from Loudoun County, which is in the Washington D.C. area, and they are all being counted as part of Ashburn.

A Canadian city such as Toronto has often been in the Top 10, but for the second year in a row, Toronto was #11 this year.  Other cities that just missed the Top 10 list include Melbourne, Seattle, Houston, and Boston.  Montreal was #25.  New Orleans was #33.  Dublin was #50.  Cleveland was #100.  Fort Lauderdale was #200.  And one of the (many) cities with only a single reader of iPhone J.D. during the past year was Valley View, Ohio, with a population of 2,034.  If any of you know an attorney in Valley View who uses an iPhone—and I'm especially thinking of you, Cleveland readers—please spread the word about iPhone J.D.  Just one new reader will double the number of visitors!