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iPhones on The Big Bang Theory

Joe Dirt said:
Want more evidence Sheldon isn't a genius or a nerd? He has been seen in many episodes using Internet Explorer. No genius or nerd would ever use IE.
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So true.
I hate IE users. i make websites, they fall apart on IE.
Comobination of IE and Vista are the WORST for me.

jayjay1122 said:
Sheldon does have the Android robot on his desk and uses an Alienware laptop. Penny did have an Inspiron laptop and Leonard made a point of asking Sheldon one time if he "wanted to go down to the Apple store and make fun of the people working the genius bar"!
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I loved that scene!
I do think that although the show is endorsed by Apple, because of who the characters are, they often make fun of Apple too.
Must be a dilemma for the writers.

Joe Dirt said:
Way off topic but I did enjoy seeing G1s in the hands of the main actors of "Dinner with schmucks"
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That movie was actually funny.
No one I know saw it, and I dont think it was even released in japan (I live there).
 
Sheldon uses IE because he says that he will use the most un-user friendly browser.

I really think it is just marketing.

The worse iPhone product placement I saw was in the movie "I Am Number Four"
 
Shinji01 said:
i also noticed that many disney channel show show all characters using iPhone.
I think it is a great marketing strategy, and fiction is fiction, business is business so I will let it slide :)
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I'm a bit of an iCarly buff (Spencer kills me) because lil sister and nieces love that show. They don't use apple, they use pear, pear pad...

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yeah.. i know.. the Pear is soo awesome... been looking all over to get me one. for xmas..

anyone know where??
 
Dexter uses an iphone in one of the newer episodes. He's also had a macbook for a while.

What's weird is the only other brand seen is Alienware as a few characters have Alienware laptops (including the "game designer"/computer wizard dude of this season).
 
When I was watching big bang theory today, I kept looking for product placements... I say a sticker for godaddy.com :) Not really the same, but kinda related.
 
It is for entertainment..

while I do get tired of product placement after a while..

There are a lot of people more intelligent than most of us will ever be who like apple.

It is a preference, not a way life.

A lot of people just have a phone to check email/browse the web and don't care about customization, features or anything other than "does it work?"

When they come out.. the hardware is comparable to any other phone for the most part..

As much as I know a few people who fawn over android phones.. their needs could be just as easily met with an iphone.. Personally I'd rather go back to dumbphones than give up android..
 
Bramsy said:
I'm a bit of an iCarly buff (Spencer kills me) because lil sister and nieces love that show. They don't use apple, they use pear, pear pad...

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I had disney channel at work to distract kids that come in with their moms, and ended up watching quite a bit myself.

I noticed the iphones on Sonny with a Chance before Demi Lovato quit...
Everyone on that show had iphones and it was soooo obvious it was marketing.

i love the pear though :)
 
I love Penny's pink Dell. I have the same one :-) The boyfriend laughed at it when he saw it and says his ThinkPad is clearly superior. Despite the fact that he has to reboot it about 6 times a day and I never have to reboot my three year old Dell laptop! Pink laptop 1 - 0 Boyfriend's ThinkPad :)
 
B2L said:
Is there a ban on girlfriends for nerds/geeks? I consider myself pretty geeky and I managed not to stay single. You can't forget about the girl nerds too. :p
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haha, this site is full of them ;) Though I lean more towards a geek than a nerd tbh.

Fringe characters use Android phones :)
 
i noticed yesterday while catching up on private practice that they use androids and one uses an iphone and a comment was made about getting her a new phone because the battery couldnt be replaced when it died.

i'm a fan of BBT and if they use iphones then so what? its all acting so they use what they are given. ive seen tabloid photos of Kim Kardashwhatever using the thunderbolt, but that doesnt make me like mine any better. i doubt celebs use their phone beyond basic functions.
 
angldvl81 said:
i noticed yesterday while catching up on private practice that they use androids and one uses an iphone and a comment was made about getting her a new phone because the battery couldnt be replaced when it died.

i'm a fan of BBT and if they use iphones then so what? its all acting so they use what they are given. ive seen tabloid photos of Kim Kardashwhatever using the thunderbolt, but that doesnt make me like mine any better. i doubt celebs use their phone beyond basic functions.
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Ouch, -1 from android ;)
 
angldvl81 said:
i noticed yesterday while catching up on private practice that they use androids and one uses an iphone and a comment was made about getting her a new phone because the battery couldnt be replaced when it died.

i'm a fan of BBT and if they use iphones then so what? its all acting so they use what they are given. ive seen tabloid photos of Kim Kardashwhatever using the thunderbolt, but that doesnt make me like mine any better. i doubt celebs use their phone beyond basic functions.
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Good thing i got rid of my Thunderbolt :D
 
It always made me mad whenever I saw Sheldon on that damned iPhone. I don't really care about the other characters; in fact Raj has always used a Macbook through all the seasons. But Sheldon is TOO much of a geek. Not to mention how much he likes tinkering with Linux and partitioning his hard drive, and the little android on his desk, and his fondness for un-user-friendly software. It just seems inconsistent.

What is crazy is that Sheldon is the one who got me into Linux. It's how I found out about Ubuntu, and I haven't looked back since. Thanks to that little sitcom I'm FAR more knowledgeable about computers in general as a result and have fallen in love with Linux (yes, pathetic, I know).
 
its a great tv program ol "big bang theory". it used to show wed @830pm every week.
its funny tho that companys like apple resort to subliminal advertising like that.
but i guess that to sell apple products to the pubblic you have to resort to some pretty nasty tricks.

thats my opinion anyways.
 
p1r4te said:
its a great tv program ol "big bang theory". it used to show wed @830pm every week.
its funny tho that companys like apple resort to subliminal advertising like that.
but i guess that to sell apple products to the pubblic you have to resort to some pretty nasty tricks.
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It's standard marketing practice. Nothing unique or particularly nasty by Apple in that respect.

What I find far more annoying is seeing ads for leather sofas all over the net after having shopped around for one earlier on. I managed to get rid of the ones on this forum at least thanks to Ad Block Plus....ad free browsing is bliss.
 
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