Apple devices could let you get a little FaceTime Santa, Apple designs its retail stores with vision, and one musician wants to juice up your smartphone’s camera. The remainders for Monday, November 26, 2012 are seen and not heard.
Best Buy ‘Finding Santa’ ad touts Apple products (TUAW)
You’d be excused for mistaking this Best Buy ad, in which a young boy uses a variety of Apple products to try and meet Santa, for an Apple commercial. Except for the end, when the salesperson tries to upsell the kid to a Surface.
Internal Apple video documents Apple Store philosophy (9to5Mac)
An internal video from Apple’s retail division teaches us two things: First, Apple’s internal videos are basically exactly like its external videos. Second, I bet John Browett’s sad he never got his moment on the stool.
Will.i.am’s iPhone accessories to ‘turn smartphones into genius phones’ (Telegraph)
The first product developed by the Black Eyed Peas musician is an external camera with a higher-quality sensor and flash that attaches to the iPhone. Just as long as it doesn’t turn my smartphone into this genius.
Author: Dan Moren, Contributor
Dan has been writing about all things Apple since 2006, when he first started contributing to the MacUser blog. He's a prolific podcaster and the author of several novels; hist latest is the forthcoming supernatural detective story All Souls Lost.