[question] Apple Product Placement

[rooskee 0]

The motorcycle buildoff shows on the discovery channel often have macs with iSights

[Pooky 0]

Blade: Trinity's Abigail uses an iPod and iTunes

[A.K.R. 0]

I don't know if this was worth pointing out, but in Singapore, the television channels are now showing a credit card advertisement (can't remember which card). In it, a man uses the advertised credit card to buy what is obviously an Apple iPod, although they never showed the brand or product name on it (of course).

[Mahalis 0]

Not in movies, but I keep seeing 'em in the AJC comics.. pretty much every strip with a computer in it is showing a Mac. Fun stuff. I think Rob from Get Fuzzy got an iMac G5 recently.

[Gene Clean 0]

The Overstock.com commercial has about 10 iBooks when they show that girl walking around the white table.

I once saw a trailer of a movie that had an eMac in the desk of some secretary, but can't remember the name.

[nightcrawler1089 0]

Yah, in lots of comics you can see display cases of iMacs. The older versions...*ugh*.

-NC

[Gene Clean 0]

The video store guy in The Simpsons has an original iMac. I just noticed tonight

[rgriffo 0]

Pirates of Silicon Valley. A made for TV move (on TNT). Has the Apple IIe, Lisa, and the Macintosh.

[pwnzrzpat 0]

well in 50 Cent's P.I.M.P. vid he has a 3G iPod.

[Jack is cool. 0]

what i like about you, twins, my wife and kids, (that one baseball movie with billy bob thornton), school of rock, some more.

[Jack is cool. 0]

in the ring two, aiden's mom has an emac (sorry for double post)

[iggy23 0]

the ultimate product placement:

http://www.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplay...d_p4331,00.html

lol

[J-UNIOR 0]

in freinds there was an orange ibook

[sacear 0]

That request is nearly impossible to fulfill, because there are so many movies and shows with Macs and Apple products in them. Seeing Apple products is so exciting and interesting, especially in movies and TV shows. So is seeing Coca-Cola and DeWALT.

Altho' a large majority of computers in the general population are Wintels, contrarily the large majority of computers used by the Hollywood industry are Macs. So seeing Macs in movies and on TV is common. A computer is a tool people use, just like a car, a miter saw, or a pencil. Seeing the same brand tool or product one uses, such as Coca-Cola, Apple, Ford, DeWALT, or Ticonderoga, in a movie or on TV is highly exciting.

All the remodeling and decorating shows, on TLC and ABC, ("Trading Spaces," "While You Were Out," "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," etc.) seem to use and show PowerBook G4 models, but cover the Apple logo with tape, most often silver tape. So that obviously defeats the "product placement."

In the movie "You've Got Mail," Meg Ryan's character, Kathleen Kelly, uses a Macintosh PowerBook G3 "Kanga", (introduced 11/97), or a Macintosh PowerBook 3400c, (introduced 2/97). The exact model she uses can't be determined from looking at the outer plastic case, as both machines have the same plastic case.

In the TV show "Moonlighting," the female lead character has a Macintosh on her desk.

From the very beginning on "Seinfeld," Jerry always had the latest Macintosh on his desk in his apartment, yet he was never shown using it (IIRC & AFAIK). The Mac changed each season. The first season was a Macintosh Classic (probably Color Classic), during another season there was a PowerBook Duo desktop system, and 1997 was a 20th Anniversary Macintosh.

I also see the Apple iPod in movies and shows lately. I just saw the iPod in an ad for Eminem.

The iPod shuffle is in the movie "The Christmas Blessing."

And there is an apple on the teacher's desk in "Little House on the Prairie." (Subliminal product placement advertising?)

[tide 0]

that was the most vicious thread bump ive ever seen!

[aleph 0]

Veronica Mars- not only a great show but well keen on macs.

[Wuzzie 0]

In About a Boy the guy has a G4 Cube,

In Absolutley Fabulous they have na iMac G5,

In Take Away in the Burgie's reception the woman has a blue iMac,

And for some reason every iPod commercial seems to have iPods in them.... :slant:

~Wuzzie

[Carvetia 0]

There are so many... One i noticed recently was the O.C., began the show with iMac G4s, but now , going into series 3 i think it is... everyone of those that appeared in the show has been upgraded to a nice new G5!

[sacear 0]

The movie "Must Love Dogs," not only Apples, yet also Newfoundlands and Toyotas!

"The Apprentice" shows, both Donald's and Martha's.

And in Best Buy ads.

[AkeB0N0 0]

Gilmore Girls

[bhound89 0]

isnt really an apple product, but the Griffin Powermate was on Lincoln's bedroom wall in The Island

[J-UNIOR 0]

In garfeild there is an imac g4 and a quicksilver g4

[sacear 0]

In the movie "Bigger than the Sky" there is an iMac G4 with the silver Apple logo masked with white tape.

[roryspangler 0]

meet the fockers

[sacear 0]

CSI: Miami has iMacs G4.