wow. I hope the whole marketing department got fired, rehired and refired again just to prove a point...

Wow. Is blatant the right word?
I laughed when they zoomed in close for the kickstand.
This belongs on *wtf channel

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Pretty bad, but then so is the show.

Glad to see my gut instinct to not watch it was vindicated. "Sherlock" is so utterly excellent, this just seems like pointless cashing in.

I think you guys are being a bit harsh Apple.

I think the biggest shock is that it isn't an Apple

Microsoft nearly ruined Bones with the same kind of product placements for Bing and Windows Phone. It would have been only slightly more jarring to cut to the show producers giving Microsoft blowjobs for money.

Also - hilarious how he has to set a little cardboard thing under the Surface, because you can't use it on your lap otherwise.

Really? You think this is the worst? You must not watch a lot of network TV. This is subtle by the standards of blatant product placement!

http://youtu.be/oQYwFND7rHE

http://youtu.be/3DzKJnFy9yg

http://youtu.be/rH21WrjXBBw

Bones is the worst for product placement. There are like ten episodes where they pimp the Prius.

Look at Chuck with its Subway sandwiches.

So glad I ditched cable 10 years ago.

OK. These are pretty bad, too. Especially the Subway one.
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I thought the worst was that Smallville episode where they had entire episode plot revolve around kryptonite stride gum

What's hilarious is that they seem to think we don't notice it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9tniqYCJj8

Cable? This and other series are available OTA, online, satellite, discs, etc. too!

http://videosift.com/video/Waynes-World-I-Will-Not-Bow-to-Any-Sponser

I feel so sorry for Lucy Liu.

I just watched House of Cards (American) so you can rule out Netflix programming, too.

http://www.gamechup.com/kevin-spacey-uses-ps-vita-on-netflix-show-house-of-cards/

When they watch TV, people think that the programme is the product. What they don't realise is that they, the viewers, are the product, and they are being sold to the advertisers by the TV channel. Product placement should surprise nobody.

Ugh, and they based the shows title on a line that Sherlock actually didn't say.

All I saw was Lucy Liu

Benedict Cumberbatch cannot be defeated by this phoney American. Why? WHY DO WE RUIN GOOD STORIES.

Fringe last couple of seasons were running Ford and Nissan commercials. Product placement is here to stay folks. It's a commercial that can't be overlayed by local stations.

I have no interest in your shlocky Sherlocky.

But, why hasn't Lucy Liu aged in the last 15 years?

What I think is more noteworthy? That is what 44 looks like.

Manhunter has the worst foldger's product placement ever

reminded of this one. http://videosift.com/video/30-Rock-shills-for-Verizon

People started skipping commercials, then bitched about commercials, and then pirated to avoid commercials, then tivo'd pirated material to avoid commercials . . . What did you expect?

But seriously, this isn't new. It's so old it's frightening that people are only realizing they're being sold to through product placement.

Grocery stores . . . the company pays the grocery store to be placed at eye level.

Smokers . . . companies used to pay (and still do) pay hot chicks to go to bars and clubs and smoke their brand. Or vodka. My neighbor does liquor promotions. That's all he does. Hires hot 18 year old to go pass out vodka.

Why? It works. Simple.

I enjoy this show. Of course I'm not trying to compare it to other shows (yes, the UK version is fantastic... but let's include reality-tinted glasses when it comes to UK vs US shows.) I think the part that I enjoy the most is the idea, the setting. After losing the Woman, Sherlock Holmes loses control, hits bottom, forced out of his mind-numbing distractions of choice with rehab, and eventually moves to another country because he can't bare to be in the same country as his memories. Perhaps I see it as a man trying to recover from the soul-crushing experience of the only woman that he found worthy to love... and found so unexpectedly... perhaps I'm just a romantic... sigh.

I do not dismiss or hide from the show's faults, but all you gentlemen and gentlewoman can stay on your high horse while I shall enjoy both of the Sherlock stories, each as their own style.

Wow! That tablet turned into a laptop! I HAVE to have one of those! ::heads to the Apple store::