Apple's got 2 gifts for you 🎁 🎁

With Christmas right around the corner, Cupertino's playing Santa Claus.

That's right -- Apple's got two gifts for you. One disappears soon, and the other you'll have to wait till Sunday to enjoy.

First the one with the expiration date: Free two-hour deliveries of certain last-minute gifts from Apple stores. (We mentioned this in yesterday's newsletter, but it bears repeating for all you perpetual procrastinators. Orders must be placed by noon on December 24.)

Secondly, Apple TV+ will release a truly marvelous short film Sunday called The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. Our reviewer calls it "quite the Christmas miracle" -- it sounds like perfect fodder for family viewing over the holiday weekend.

Even better, you can watch this animated wonder even if you don't have a subscription to Apple's streaming video service. Just get in on the recently announced free two-month Apple TV+ trial and you can watch lots of great stuff.

Enjoy!

— Lewis Wallace, managing editor

Beautifully drawn, sensitively acted by an all-star voice cast, and written to carefully corral the emotions of viewers young and old, this one is quite the Christmas miracle. Premiering December 25 on Apple TV+, it’s one of the best animated films the streaming service has yet produced.

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One more thing ...

"What drove me? I think most creative people want to express appreciation for being able to take advantage of the work that’s been done by others before us. I didn’t invent the language or mathematics I use. I make little of my own food, none of my own clothes. Everything I do depends on other members of our species and the shoulders that we stand on.

And lot of us want to contribute something back to our species and add something to the flow. It’s about trying to express something in the only way that most of us know how -- because we cannot write Bob Dylan songs or Tom Stoppard plays. We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow." — Steve Jobs

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