The newest member of Apple’s iPad family, the thinner and faster Air, was welcomed by the company with a new commercial shown off during Tuesday’s event. The star of that one-minute spot is actually a humble pencil, with the iPad Air only making a dramatic appearance right at the end. The point, as Apple puts it, is that an “extremely simple tool” can also be “extremely powerful.”
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What you might not have immediately noticed is the identity of the person speaking those words — it’s none other than Bryan Cranston, the actor who played the iconic Walter White in the recently concluded Breaking Bad. His soft and reassuring voiceover sounds a million miles away from the steely resolve of Mr. White — though its talk of classrooms and science labs can quickly turn sinister if interpreted to be spoken by the meth kingpin that Cranston so ably personified.
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