Filed under: Humor, Odds and ends, iPhone
Celebrities and their Apple goodies
Recently, several of you tipped us on this video of US Senator Barak Obama quickly checking something on his iPhone (it happens around the 1:00 mark). It got us thinking of our favorite celebrity Apple product sightings.- Back in July of 2006, it was reported that Pope Benedict XVI had received an iPod nano from employees of Vatican Radio. The phrase "To His Holiness, Benedict XVI" was engraved on the back.
- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II purchased an iPod mini back in July of '05.
- U.S. Presidential adviser Karl Rove was seen using his iPhone in August of last year.
- Actress, singer and all-around role model Lindsay Lohan whipped out her iPhone shortly after they were first released in the U.S.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Basjee said 10:17AM on 5-13-2008
don't forget the dutch prince
http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/11/29/dutch.royalty.buys.iphone/
:)
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mentalsticks said 10:25AM on 5-13-2008
Good company? Do you mean Lindsey "DUI" Lohan or Pope Benedict "HIV" XVI?
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Pete said 10:29AM on 5-13-2008
I was sitting in a booth at Coors Field for the playoffs last year. (I was there to see the Red Sox of course.) Sitting a couple chairs over from me was Carrie Underwood typing on her iPhone.
For the first time, the iPhone looked ugly compared to it's surroundings.
http://tinyurl.com/3n699m
And on a side note, she was totally nice. While we were sitting there, we used Jailbreakme.com to jailbreak her iPhone and install some apps on it. She loved it.
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DJCarbon43 said 11:34AM on 5-13-2008
Thats pretty cool. Nice to see that some celebs are down to earth... now hopefully it wont get bricked on the next update...
Kenneth said 10:42AM on 5-13-2008
That's getting old and I don't really care.
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Ryan said 10:50AM on 5-13-2008
seriously.
Isn't there something like 4MM iPhones out there now, it's not like it's an exclusive device that only these 'celebrities' have. Besides don't these people flock to whatever is 'hip' at the moment? Where they not all carrying beadazzled Sidekicks just a year or so ago?
marcipano said 10:47AM on 5-13-2008
Here's new president of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev http://kremlin.ru/dyn_images/big200033.JPG
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Charles R Hamilton said 11:05AM on 5-13-2008
The whole cult of celebrity thing wears thin pretty quick, but kudos to hanging with Carrie, she seems to be the real deal.
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Matt said 11:51AM on 5-13-2008
Did you mean "Barack" and not "Barak"?
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MeatyPi said 12:03PM on 5-13-2008
No I believe he meant "Brak" from spaceghost
btw, That stupid full screen ad that turns the whole page black is so damn annoying, and when you click skip, it plays the fuckin thing. wtf?
mark said 12:02PM on 5-13-2008
I have never understood why the typical person in America cares what a "celebrity" uses or doesn't use. It will not sway my opinion of them, nor my interest in any particular product.
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peejavery said 12:21PM on 5-13-2008
How can you tell it is an iPhone? The quality of video is low. Plus,
it gives an strange blue glow. This would make me think that it was a
Blackberry (which typically hang from the belt).
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JediMstr said 12:56PM on 5-13-2008
He's Twittering using Hahlo... :) He's in a Twitter Followers race between Leo Laporte and Kevin Rose. (Hillary and McCain are way behind in this race).
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Awin said 1:25PM on 5-13-2008
Fake Steve had a picture of Jennifer Aniston carrying a MBP about a month ago.
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Jason said 6:09PM on 5-13-2008
Sorry guys, that's a blackberry.
I've seen other clips that clearly show him on his blackberry.
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rob said 3:27PM on 5-13-2008
wait.. how the heck do you know thats an iPhone? i mean cmon
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Goran said 4:09PM on 5-13-2008
"You're in good company. We think."
...erm... Think Different?
;)
Just kidding, for crying out loud.
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me said 4:43PM on 5-13-2008
a while ago on mythbusters i saw Adam pull out his iPhone as a timer.
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Wifiguy said 6:06PM on 5-13-2008
That's a 8700 Blackberry not an iPhone!
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larry said 5:13AM on 5-14-2008
some belgian minister, maybe of telecommunications? actually a ton of eu politicians use unlocked iphones
http://www.lesoir.be/la_vie_du_net/en_pratique/un-iphone-pirate-au-gouvernem-2008-05-08-597041.shtml - in french
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