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Old 12-19-2011, 09:31 PM
 
Location: South Beach and DT Raleigh
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Apple has a new Christmas commercial with Santa using his iPhone to navigate his way, check weather and reference his naughty/nice list. Raleigh is one of the cities that's mentioned in the weather searching part of the commercial. I am supposing that this means that Santa is planning on hitting the area this year.
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Old 12-19-2011, 09:45 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Apple has a new Christmas commercial with Santa using his iPhone to navigate his way, check weather and reference his naughty/nice list. Raleigh is one of the cities that's mentioned in the weather searching part of the commercial. I am supposing that this means that Santa is planning on hitting the area this year.
Also that he needs to pay attention to the weather, 'cause I think a lot of rain showers are forecast
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Old 12-20-2011, 05:38 AM
 
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I think Santa likes Raleigh, after all, he went to NC State (red & white colors).
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Old 12-20-2011, 06:09 AM
 
Location: Downtown Durham, NC
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Apple has a new Christmas commercial with Santa using his iPhone to navigate his way, check weather and reference his naughty/nice list. Raleigh is one of the cities that's mentioned in the weather searching part of the commercial. I am supposing that this means that Santa is planning on hitting the area this year.

In the commercial that Apple first used to introduce Siri, the locksmiths mentioned by the lady on the front porch were Durham-based (and based on the distances given to each shop, she was somewhere near Trinity Park). I'm wondering whether a Triangle agency is working on the Apple ads now...
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Old 12-20-2011, 07:20 AM
 
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I think Santa likes Raleigh, after all, he went to NC State (red & white colors).
I remember the rabble last year when some engineer I think it was on the State of Things said that joke during an interview about the science behind Santa's present delivery methods. Some people just don't know how to take a joke.
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Old 12-20-2011, 08:06 AM
 
Location: Cary, NC
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The Apple ads are typically done by TBWA/Chiat/Day in Los Angeles. In fact, the "children" listed on Santa's schedule of upcoming appointments (3.7 billion of them) are TBWA employees.

Not sure about any specific Raleigh/Durham connection on the ad side, although CEO Tim Cook does have an MBA from Duke and spent time at IBM in RTP.
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Old 12-20-2011, 08:26 AM
 
Location: Durham, NC
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Is it possible that bit of dialog is just tweaked for each region? His voice sounds a bit different when he says Raleigh.
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Old 12-20-2011, 08:32 AM
 
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Is it possible that bit of dialog is just tweaked for each region? His voice sounds a bit different when he says Raleigh.
Doesn't look like it, the one on the Apple site says raleigh too:

Apple - iPhone - Videos
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Old 12-20-2011, 11:14 AM
 
Location: South Beach and DT Raleigh
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The Apple ads are typically done by TBWA/Chiat/Day in Los Angeles. In fact, the "children" listed on Santa's schedule of upcoming appointments (3.7 billion of them) are TBWA employees.

Not sure about any specific Raleigh/Durham connection on the ad side, although CEO Tim Cook does have an MBA from Duke and spent time at IBM in RTP.
Well....that sure sounds like a specific connection to me from the top.
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Old 12-20-2011, 01:44 PM
 
Location: Cary, NC
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Well....that sure sounds like a specific connection to me from the top.
Well yes, but not really on the ad side. I don't think Tim Cook was sitting in on ad meetings and saying, "Yes, let's look up some locksmiths in Durham."

Jobs, maybe. Cook, no.
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