I think with Ted Lasso in particular, you are dealing with people ranging from quite wealthy to ridiculously wealthy so it makes sense to me that they would be using apple products which, although they are fantastic pieces of hardware and software, do enjoy the ethos of high end, luxury items. I am not saying that there aren't really great android devices and PC's, but from a mainstream, pop culture standpoint, this makes sense to me. I will have a problem if I see these placements in the next season of See.
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No! Really? Product placement? Never in a million years would I have guessed that would happen. I'm shocked.
I suppose you have to be a Wall Street journalist to make that intuitive leap and join all the dots together, revealing their insight and diligent research.
In other news: Pope may be Catholic.
I suppose you have to be a Wall Street journalist to make that intuitive leap and join all the dots together, revealing their insight and diligent research.
In other news: Pope may be Catholic.
I get it. My only issue is when they show a phone text message and show the phone for like 1 second. It's almost always a strange angle and super quick. Its a chore to pause it rewind a little and see what they hell was on the text message / on the screen. It also bugs me . I get that texting and chat are a thing in the modern world but this is tedious tv show / movie making and Apple is not good at this.
I must have missed that episode of For All Mankind. Curious which one that was in?Ha, Ha, you know they've gone to far when you see a 24" Pink iMac, from 2021, on the American Moon base in the 1970"s
A) "I just tend to notice" is called confirmation bias and is common. It is worth being conscious of as you appear to be, though.
B) "Tim and Co" (see A above) Apple has been doing product placement long before Tim Cook increased the value of Apple by 1200% in 10 years. Now that Apple is producing (or paying for productions) we are clearly going to see more product placement. I will not argue that there have not been a few placements that may have gone too far; hopefully they can find a happy balance while the pendulum swings.
In the earliest days of television most shows were paid for by a single sponsor and their products appeared, or were referenced, shamelessly throughout. Commercials on broadcast television came about because it allowed more freedom for the content that was created and, well, commercials made more money for the broadcasters. Now we see things swinging back again. Everything old is new again.
While watching the first season of Ted Lasso, I didn't notice anything unusual with the product placements, because Apple products are shown prominently in so many non-Apple movies and shows. Even the joke about going back in time to buy Apple stock was similar to a joke I already heard in another show.
Two things I did notice were that characters kept abruptly closing their laptops (that's annoying because my touch bar MBP has a kernel panic if I close it before manually putting it to sleep first) and that nobody has to plug in their laptops even when at their office desks.
Two things I did notice were that characters kept abruptly closing their laptops (that's annoying because my touch bar MBP has a kernel panic if I close it before manually putting it to sleep first) and that nobody has to plug in their laptops even when at their office desks.
This doesn't bother me much; they've been doing it hard-core since the 90's. In fact Mac's were WAY over-represented in 90's movies based on their market share at the time, haha.
Perhaps the bad guys could all be toting Android devices. IT meltdowns would only happen in Windows and Linux environments - you can see the potential here!
If this was a Who Wants to be a Millionaire? question, I would choose this as my final answer. I mean, doesn't every production crew have a Prop Master?
Agreed, Servant uses Apple products to advance the plot alot. Somehow the show remains creepy and comical.
The HomePod stood out to me because I've never seen that product in a show before. It kinda took over the mantle piece.
Was the Pizza chain flyer made on Pages?
I've noticed the product placement in Chicago Med, Chicago PD, Chicago fire. I've never known a hospital have all of it's systems be Macs. So this is something they have been doing for a long time outside of Apple TV+ It only makes sense they would continue in their own productions.
It's a comedy.
I didn't realize how beautiful the back of the latest Mac monitor was until Poppy was recording a podcast on one during that last episode of "Truth Be Told. "
That sounds like a problem only your MBP has. My touch bar MBP from 2016 can get closed just fine abruptly.
Also laptops have these things called batteries in them. Means they can work for a period of time without being plugged in, and newer M1 MBA/MBP have extraordinary battery life.
It's not really subliminal in Ted Lasso. It's proper "in your face" placements. It doesn't bother me, but there's quite a lot of them in season 2. The quality of season 2 has been so poor, it's almost like too many people have got involved and some turned it into a marketing tool.
The absolute worst example of product placement for me was when Sony had James Bond using a blu-ray player in Casino Royale.