A week from today is the shopping event Black Friday, and it is typically the one day each year when Apple provides some sort of a discount or promotion on its products. Nick Guy of Wirecutter discusses Apple's prior promotions on Black Friday and recommends other stores that will or may have Black Friday discounts on Apple products. One change this holiday season is that you should be able to purchase many more Apple products on Amazon. Ben Fox Rubin of CNet reports that Apple has signed a deal with Amazon to greatly expand the products available on Amazon for sale. And now, the news of note from the past week:
- Texas real estate attorney Laura McClellan, who is the host of The Productive Woman podcast, was a guest on a recent episode of the Mac Power Users podcast, hosted by California attorney David Sparks and Florida attorney Katie Floyd. It's a great episode with lots of useful tips.
- Sparks also prepared a video review of the new iPad Pro.
- Jason Snell of Six Colors wrote a great review of the new iPad Pro.
- USB-C cables are confusing, making it difficult to choose the right one. I've encountered this myself as I have started to try out USB-C cables for the iPad Pro. Mike Wuerthele of AppleInsider tries to clarify the story on USB-C cables.
- Federico Viticci of MacStories reviews the Smart Folio Keyboard for the new iPad Pro.
- Charlie Sorrel of Cult of Mac shares a tip from photographer Austin Mann to create a shortcut to turn on do not disturb, raise the brightness, and launch the Camera app so that you can take pictures on an iPhone without fear of being interrupted by a call or other notification.
- Michael Steeber of 9to5Mac shares photos of Apple's beautiful new store in Thailand.
- And finally, Rene Ritchie of iMore reviewed the second generation Apple Pencil, but impressively does so by using the Apple Pencil. Much of his review consists of him drawing with the Pencil. It's a clever way to do a product review and the end result is worth watching:
