Why do you only see Apples in movies?

[GullyFoyle]

Back before Apple owned the world via their Ipod and IPhone and their mac owned only a small percentage of the PC market Apple eyed up a strategy to survive by taking control of certain niche markets. They settled on artists and early education. they searched out and supported professional level tools for musicians and movie creators, and also created the "Apples for Students". program. Their product placement program is obviously very successfull in giving the impression that 'everybody else is using a Mac, why aren't you?'. and probably seems accurate to hollywood types where everyone around them uses Apples.
With "Apples for Students" . the strategy is to get them hooked while they are young. And maybe they will stick with what they are familiar with for life.

 

[IGBT]

you don't see them anywhere else. Movies are fantasy.

 

[alkemyst]

The MacBook Pro and Air are some of the best laptops ever created from a durability and fit and finish stand point.

The only thing they don't cater to are gamers.

 

[ultimatebob]

Haven't you seen any unscripted interviews with famous movie actors and actresses? I'm amazed that they know how to screw in a light bulb, let alone use a Windows PC.

 

[alkemyst]

Haven't you seen any unscripted interviews with famous movie actors and actresses? I'm amazed that they know how to screw in a light bulb, let alone use a Windows PC.

Many are actually very smart, bet you think Dolph Lundgren is an idiot too.

 

[Jeff7]

I've heard Big Bang Theory referred to as "Nerd Blackface."

I can't say that I disagree, particularly.

No, seriously, I can't say it. My crippling social anxiety prevents it, just as it prevents me from asking out the cute waitress who lives in the next apartment. I'm going to go read a fantasy novel now. Later maybe I'll identify and memorize my favorite lines from the Dark Empire comics and memorize all of the new Intel Ark pages for Haswell.

- People at work have told me a few times that I'd love the show, because of its content.
- Something in my mind kept saying, "It can't really be that scientific or nerdy, since it's on primetime TV, and has been there for several years."

So, I finally looked around for information on this show, and this term that's used to describe it. (Also encountering the other variant: "nerdface.")

It seems that my guess was correct.

 

[IGBT]

Haven't you seen any unscripted interviews with famous movie actors and actresses? I'm amazed that they know how to screw in a light bulb, let alone use a Windows PC.

most of them never graduated from high school. The movie industry is a closed nepotistic industry where the "connected" and "juiced in" get jobs based on family not smarts. Action lines and sound bites are practiced and shot over and over until the desired impact and effect is achieved. How else would a slouch like sean penn get connected if it wasn't for family connections and nepotism.

 

[CZroe]

Noticed this in the 1990s when the content creation industry almost exclusively used Apple products (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, ID4: Independence Day, etc). In the last 13 years though I'm always seeming movies that push one brand or another. For a time you couldn't visit the Dell or HP websites without seeing some message on the front page about them helping in the production of this or that movie by providing all the computers both on and off camera (big contract win).

Despite this, Apple products are still disproportionately represented, but it's for the same reason they were in the 1990s. A lot of those people are still around and many have passed on their preferences to the people they work with.

Techies should have noticed all this years ago.

 

[JMapleton]

Because Apples are "cool" to the computer illiterate public.

 

[CZroe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEaPkWQ_joA

Product placement is Adam Sandler's business.

Casino Royale was the first Bond movie released on Blu-Ray and, sure enough, it had Blu-Ray players, security systems that burn Blu-Rays, Sony Ericsson phones, VAIOs, WEGAs, and other Sony products galore.

I'm pretty sure Sony bought the MGM back-catalog to use as even more leverage when pushing Blu-Ray.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

In my current workplace there are about 2-3K employees, but <<1% are using Apple products. The workplace I was at before (same employer) the same thing could be said, but with 4-5K employees. And I work for an employer with six figures in employee count.

 

[alkemyst]

In my current workplace there are about 2-3K employees, but <<1% are using Apple products. The workplace I was at before (same employer) the same thing could be said, but with 4-5K employees. And I work for an employer with six figures in employee count.

Lol, average pay at minimum wage or something?

I work with Network Engineers. While many went the Droid route and PC offerings, they all come back to MacBooks and iPhones.

 

[Ichinisan]

Lol, average pay at minimum wage or something?

I work with Network Engineers. While many went the Droid route and PC offerings, they all come back to MacBooks and iPhones.

Yup. I work for a small cable ISP. All of our network engineers are using iPhone and Macbooks...ALL of them.

 

[alkemyst]

I will add those that do use macbooks are running windows at the same time where I work.

 

[CZroe]

Product placement is Adam Sandler's business.

Casino Royale was the first Bond movie released on Blu-Ray and, sure enough, it had Blu-Ray players, security systems that burn Blu-Rays, Sony Ericsson phones, VAIOs, WEGAs, and other Sony products galore.

I'm pretty sure Sony bought the MGM back-catalog to use as even more leverage when pushing Blu-Ray.

I meant to link to this:
http://redlettermedia.com/half-in-the-bag/jack-and-jill/

 

[ProchargeMe]

They pay to have them shown? Pretty simple answer.

 

[xeledon20005]

Simply put I use a Macbook pro late 2011 for my laptop because it was what I was given. Computer before that was a compaq Tablet w/ Transmeta processor.

 

[jagec]

stop bashing apple cause you cant afford it , or justify the cost, every one that i know has asked me which laptop should i get, i know if i tell them a pc, ill get calls every other week saying its getting slower, or some other bullshit does not work, then im forced to come over and spend atleast an hour reformating+ reinstalling , so when friends ask me what to buy (im the tech geek in our family) i always say mac cause they buy it and then i don't have to here about any problems for years especially if they buy apple care, if theirs an issue, all i have to do is set up an appt. at the genius bar online, and they bring it in at said time, and apples more then happy to help, thats plus osx software and not having to worry about all the bs preinstalled on those hp's and dell's etc. justify the cost difference IMO. once you go mac, you never go back.

Right, so Macs are great for people that are computer illiterate, and bottom-end PCs aren't as good as computers that cost ten times as much. Throw in a smirking elitist comment about how people "can't afford" them, and your argument is complete.

Apple makes good laptops, but they ARE overpriced. Yes, they look pretty...even more evidence that they are intended to be more of a status symbol than an actual computer. I had a Mac back in college, and it was a solid laptop which served me well for many years. Now I'm rocking a Lenovo, because I can get much more for my money on an equally high-quality computer.

The amount of buyer's Stockholm Syndrome in Mac users is insane.

 

[Ichinisan]

The amount of buyer's Stockholm Syndrome in Mac users is insane.

Did you ever consider that there's a better explanation for that?

I'm SICK of fixing people's PCs. From what I've seen, nearly all "tech nerds" still aren't nerdy enough to avoid WILLINGLY installing garbage in their PCs due to fundamental operating system flaws that Microsoft simply refuses to address.

I do not own a Mac, but I simply can't recommend a PC to anyone except myself.

 

[alkemyst]

Right, so Macs are great for people that are computer illiterate, and bottom-end PCs aren't as good as computers that cost ten times as much. Throw in a smirking elitist comment about how people "can't afford" them, and your argument is complete.

Apple makes good laptops, but they ARE overpriced. Yes, they look pretty...even more evidence that they are intended to be more of a status symbol than an actual computer. I had a Mac back in college, and it was a solid laptop which served me well for many years. Now I'm rocking a Lenovo, because I can get much more for my money on an equally high-quality computer.

The amount of buyer's Stockholm Syndrome in Mac users is insane.

Almost everything worth having is over-priced. It's called capitalism.

You can find jeans for $10, shoes for $5, suits for $99, $1 watches, etc...

I love Apple products. I don't care for the GUI and hence I run Parallels and Windows 7 / 8 on them. I have a MacBook Pro Mid 2010, I bought my ex-wife one as well. I currently just bought two dells a Ultrabook 15z for my g/f and an Inspiron 15 for her 14 yo son, a 2013 MacBook Pro for her 22yo daughter and gave my Thinkpad T60 to her 10 year old.

I plan to upgrade her to a MacBook Pro soon and pass the laptops down among the boys.

 

[Soundmanred]

I pay Apple $1000 every time they are used in a movie.