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[[Bland-Name Product]] is a subtrope. See also [[Acme Products]], which is any generic corporation that seems to supply ''everything'' a character, or entire cast, uses. When this happens with firearms, it is an [[AKA-47]].
 
Incidentally, the notion of using ''fake'' brands that resemble the real brand ([[ICarlyiCarly|Using a pear instead of an apple]], for instance) is being seen by marketers as something that improves awareness of the real brand. Amusingly, they're calling it [[Product Displacement]].
 
Not to be confused with the band Brand X.
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** So does Stephan in ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'', and his thoroughly resembles a tangerine iBook.
** There's another show/film where the brand name on a "pear" computer was plainly visible: [[wikipedia:Bosc Pear|"Bosc."]] Points to the set-dresser who thought that one up.
** Pear computers show up as a running gag in shows produced by Dan Schneider, such as ''Zoey101'' and ''[[ICarlyiCarly]]''. The latter expanded the Pear product line with other parodies of Apple products, including the PearPod, the PearPhone, and now the PearPad (which in a further twist, is actually shaped like a pear).
*** "Pear" notebooks show up in an unknown German TV series. In the same show, someone is looking things up on "[[Wikipedia|Realpedia]]".
** Probably the ur- and most famous example predates the iMac by over a decade: the Banana Junior computer from ''[[Bloom County]]'', which became a character unto itself.
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* The online RPG ''Forum Warz'' has a store called Plum Computers with 3 products: the iPrune (standard desktop unit), the [[Prune Book]] (a laptop) and the [[Prune Serv]] (a server).
* There's an episode of the Disney version of ''[[Doug]]'' where the characters are locked in the school during a snowstorm and the [[Rich Bitch]] of the group pulls out a laptop to try to communicate with the outside world for help. While the laptop itself was pretty indistinct, the desktop environment it exhibited was unmistakably Apple's Classic Mac OS, with a Beet (a running gag in the series) in the place of the Apple on the top-left corner of the screen.
* A ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Bookcomics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' issue had Brainiac 5 decrying the primitive technology of 20th century computers. The computer's logo was a half-peeled banana, and the slogan was "Computers with ap''peal''".
* [[The BBC]] Radio 4 comedy ''Mind Your Own Business'' had Satsuma computers, which were derided as spending too much time being friendly, rather than just doing what they're told.
** Of course, in the UK, as well as Apple, there was Apricot Computers, Acorn Computers (creators of the [[BBC Micro]]) and Tangerine Computer Systems (creators of Oric 1 and Atmos, an early rival to the Sinclair Spectrum).
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