Eversheds eschews BlackBerry in favour of iPad

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• Anon | 30-Jun-2010 2:45 pm

  You can hardly slip an iPad in your shirt or jacket pocket, can you?

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• Anonymous | 30-Jun-2010 3:21 pm

  Much as I would like my firm to give me an iPad this is just gimmick PR isnt it? You could have an iPad AND a Blackberry but not an iPad instead of one (try holding it for any length of time), and on Eversheds profits I don't think they will shell out to give all the lawyers both somehow

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• chris | 30-Jun-2010 3:25 pm

  Need both, surely?

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• Anon | 30-Jun-2010 3:42 pm

  It's only going to get harder for the partners to pretend their paying attention during meetings.

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• boris goodenough | 30-Jun-2010 3:43 pm

  I think the Sheds are so trnedy that a jacket is out of the question. In the button down preppy world they would like to inhabit, this is "what it's all about".
  Shame they don't spend more time worrying about eh quality of the legal advice they give, but that's SUCH an old-fashioned thing to do

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• Anonymous | 30-Jun-2010 3:46 pm

  I think the "shed" is forgetting about the crucial aspect of using a mobile device...the capability to be contactable by telephone. It looks like the firm is trying too hard to look trendy and wasting money when a good old iphone would have done the trick.
  
  Mind you I guess the partners could waste even more time during meetings by showing off how many apps they each have on their ipads.

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• Anonymous | 30-Jun-2010 3:47 pm

  Who knew they were that desperate for publicity?
  
  The iPad has already been shown to be fairly useless when it comes to editing documents, one of the main perceived advantages the device could be said to have over the blackberry.

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• Anonymous | 30-Jun-2010 3:49 pm

  In the US the BB has not been supplanted by the iPhone due to well documented security concerns. Presumably the same problems will apply to the iPad?

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• Stephen | 30-Jun-2010 4:02 pm

  It seems that you would still a phone with you though. I'm not ready to switch entirely to just email and twitter. It would seem to me that the best bet for a company that's just paid "in the thousands" for a pilot test of a new device would want to avoid spending anymore on phones. They've got a load of blackberries lying around, haven't they?

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• Anonymous | 30-Jun-2010 4:03 pm

  I'd be interested to know what level of security and manageabilty Eversheds is implementing. I can see an iPad as a replacement for a laptop but with no telephone and without RIM's comprehensive back-end management tools and end-to-end security I wouldn't be comfortable with it as a 'Berry replacement.

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• Anon | 30-Jun-2010 4:03 pm

  You can't make or recieve a call on an iPad either. Surely this would be more of an addition to both a blackberry and a laptop

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• Anonymous | 30-Jun-2010 4:05 pm

  Is that an iPad in your pocket, or are you just excited not to work for Eversheds?

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• Anonymous | 30-Jun-2010 4:22 pm

  White House authorities made President Obama hand over his i-phone and replaced it with a BlackBerry because of the i-phone's creaky security.
  
  Is the i-pad any more secure?

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• Anonymous | 30-Jun-2010 4:24 pm

  surely they will still need to carry a phone too? More delays at airport security and twice as many cables to lug around.

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• Those poor souls... | 30-Jun-2010 4:26 pm

  who lost their jobs in the numerous rounds of redundancies the Shed has had - all so the partners and exec committee could have iPads!! Akin to the bad decisions made by Halliwells one might say (though obviously not yet on the same scale - just give them time!).

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• Steve Jobs | 30-Jun-2010 4:27 pm

  Once again, Eversheds are showing a clean pair of heals to their technologically-backward rivals.
  The iPad revolution is real and is here to stay. Any law firm that doesn't give its partners iPads will almost certainly be out of the business before Christmas

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• Anonymous | 30-Jun-2010 10:38 pm

  Are all of Eversheds lawyers THAT ugly that they need something pretty to take to the table??!! :)

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• Who cares? | 30-Jun-2010 11:08 pm

  I and I am sure many others couldn't care less what technological gimmicky toot Eversheds dish out to their staff.
  Incidentally, the iPad has got to be the most pointless device ever.

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• Anonymous | 30-Jun-2010 11:09 pm

  The iPad rocks, I have one and it's bloody brilliant. But - It doesn't have a phone and comments are right - it won't fit in your pocket!
  Typing and doc management is fine, naysayers clearly haven't used one, but you still need a Bberry.
  What I can foresee is a massive rise in non-productive time for the Eversheds staff, no doubt passed through to clients. The iPad is gorgeous, and there's so Many time wasting apps to suck time out of your day.

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• Anonymous | 1-Jul-2010 9:48 am

  Can't wait for the avalanche of stories about the Shed's clients' top secrets being reveled by iPad use on trains...and leaving them behind!

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• Surallan | 2-Jul-2010 8:38 am

  Is it right true that Halliwells partners are getting Commodore 64s in place of their Blackberrys?

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• Fad | 2-Jul-2010 4:39 pm

  Obviously a daft PR fad - it simply doesn't serve the same purpose as a Bberry. But SCB are switching to iPhones so there might just be a trend starting. Anyone who has ever used a different smartphone will tell you that apart from the persistent email Blackberries lag behind their competitors in almost every single respect - especially usability.
  What keeps them in business is that they have a proper corporate infrastructure and security that only Microsoft can currently compete with. If Apple of Google decide to tackle the corporate market things will change quickly.

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• It started with the Tower of Babel... | 4-Jul-2010 7:23 pm

  What's needed is a tablet PC with a telephone that's thin and large enough to operate an on-screen QWERTY. It could be that Esheds are eschewing the mighty laptop for an iPad, but the need for a telephonic tablet PC is the future.
  
  Step up HTC.

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• Anonymous | 5-Jul-2010 9:56 am

  Why? Yes, have it as one of your 'agnostic' devices for Citrix, but as a replacement for Blackberry's? I don't think so!

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