There’d be something amiss if Apple’s general counsel didn’t use an Apple product when representing the company in front of the US Congress. But Bruce Sewell must have been thankful he’d also brought a hard copy when his iPad Pro failed him mid-speech.
It was all going smoothly at the House judiciary committee hearing into the standoff between Apple and the FBI when suddenly Sewell’s gentle scrolls turned into rapid swipes, a quizzical look and a quick switch to a ring binder.
To be fair, Sewell pulled off the transition from screen to paper with aplomb: but for a pause as he riffled to the right page, he looked totally unflustered.
The iPad Pro sat out the rest of the lawyer’s remarks as the paper copy took centre stage.
As Apple co-founder Steve Jobs might have said: “It just works.”
