Beth Callaghan

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Apple’s Newest Ad: If Only Via FaceTime

A proto-Zooey Deschanel on an iPad mini, accompanying herself adorably on the ukulele, sings “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” to a grandfatherly dude (on a full-sized iPad) via FaceTime in Apple’s latest commercial. There’s no last-minute shopping promo — beyond the subtle message that minis are for kids — just snow falling gently over the Apple logo.

Not an overt one, anyway. Enjoy:


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The best and brightest are usually put to work on optimisation. … They will then go forward and solve the inefficiencies, and that’s where 99% of most energy is spent on. But, at some point you run out of room to improve things, and that’s when you have to step aside and ask, can we make it different?

— Horace Dediu, in a podcast interview with William Channer