History Main / IPhony

* The ''Literature/TransformersShatteredGlass'' prose stories have the characters using [=oPhones=] and [=oPods=]. Though it's somewhat justified in that the stories take place in a BizarroUniverse.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', a logo that often pops up on hardware is an apple bitten on both sides. That line of products is called Mapple and was created by [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Steve Mobs]]. Its product line includes the MyPhone, the MyPod, and MyPhonies, headphones that only serve to give the impression someone owns a Mapple product.

* The logo on Rick's portable copmputer in the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "Big trouble in Little Sanchez" [[https://imgur.com/N7suuzc is an electric plug]].

* In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', Izzy has a laptop that not only has a pineapple logo, but has the whole "one half white, one half a color" motif of the early iBooks.

* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' has Kyouya use a laptop with a pineapple logo.

* In ''Manga/DeathNote'', L uses digital devices that look suspiciously like the [=iMacs=] of the time, but with a banana logo in place of the apple. As his gadgets are way, way more versatile than said Macs, it might just be an aesthetic thing.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', the team buys eyePhones from [=MomCorp=]; those have Mom's head as logo.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', a logo that often pops up on hardware is an apple bitten on both sides. That line of products is called Mapple and was created by [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Steve Mobs]].

Compare IProduct, where "i" is prefixed to things to make them cool and internet-y. For RealLife instances where Apple products are clearly imitated e.g. to cash in or illegally profit off their trademarks, see ShoddyKnockoffProduct. If actual Apple products (especially the Mac), show up in a work more often than their real-life market share would suggest, that's EveryoneOwnsAMac

Compare IProduct, where "i" is prefixed to things to make them cool and internet-y. For RealLife instances where Apple products are clearly imitated e.g. to cash in or illegally profit off their trademarks, see ShoddyKnockoffProduct.

** One cartoon showed Bubs made people stand in line to get an iTem.
** In another toon, Bubs thinks that [[WereStillRelevantDammit the best way to "modernize" Strong Bad's image]] is to put a lowercase "i" in front of it, like iStrong or iBad. Strong Bad declines, saying they fell into the same trap with lowercase "e"s in TheNineties.

* In ''Manga/SangatsuNoLion'', the logo on Rei's phone in Chapter 102 is an apple, but without the bite.

* Played straight in several New ''Series/DoctorWho'' episodes, but justified in "Dark Water" when the protagonists apparently travel to the afterlife. When it's noted that the Administrator is using an [=iPad=], he proudly boasts that they have Steve Jobs as well.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeasaTeenageRobot'': In the episode "Girl of Steal," a new mp3 player named Musique is a new thing everyone is desperate for. It looks like a white music note and is stuck directly into the wearer's ear. In one part of the episode, people dance in silhouette with the Musiques in their ears just like in the iconic Apple commercials.

* In ''ComicBok/AstroCity'', Starfighter marries an [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Alien Princess] and retires to her planet - he's seen using the planet's equivalent of a macbook, with an alien fruit logo.

* The ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series has [[https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Fruit_Computers_(HD_Universe) Fruit Computers]]. Their logo is a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything rather phallic-looking]] fruitbowl. Their products, much like those of Apple, are portrayed as status symbols with an AsceticAesthetic. An [[https://gtwfilesie.grandtheftwiki.com/Fruitcomputers.jpg advertisement]] for the Cocoon computer and the first-generation iFruit phone in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV GTA IV]]'' advertises the former as "simple, minimalistic, and overpriced", the latter as [[AwesomeButImpractical "no buttons, no reception, no storage capacity, all ego"]], and owning a Fruit device as a sign of superiority. In ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV GTA V]]'', meanwhile, the fact that Michael uses an iFruit reflects his upper-class lifestyle as compared to Franklin and Trevor with their more downmarket cellphones.

* The ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series has [[https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Fruit_Computers_(HD_Universe) Fruit Computers]]. Their logo is a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything rather phallic-looking]] fruitbowl. Their products, much like those of Apple, are portrayed as status symbols with an AsceticAesthetic. An [[https://gtwfilesie.grandtheftwiki.com/Fruitcomputers.jpg advertisement]] for the Cocoon computer and the first-generation iFruit phone in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV GTA IV]]'' advertises the former as "simple, minimalistic, and overpriced", the latter as "[[AwesomeButImpractical "no buttons, no reception, no storage capacity, all ego"]], and owning a Fruit device as a sign of superiority. In ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV GTA V]]'', meanwhile, the fact that Michael uses an iFruit reflects his upper-class lifestyle as compared to Franklin and Trevor with their more downmarket cellphones.

* The ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series has [[https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Fruit_Computers_(HD_Universe) Fruit Computers]]. Their logo is a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything rather phallic-looking]] fruitbowl. Their products, much like those of Apple, are portrayed as status symbols with an AsceticAesthetic; an [[https://gtwfilesie.grandtheftwiki.com/Fruitcomputers.jpg advertisement]] for the Cocoon computer and the first-generation iFruit phone in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV GTA IV]]'' advertises the former as "simple, minimalistic, and overpriced" and the latter as "[[AwesomeButImpractical "no buttons, no reception, no storage capacity, all ego"]], and in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV GTA V]]'', the fact that Michael uses an iFruit (versus Franklin and Trevor's comparatively downmarket cellphones) reflects his upper-class lifestyle.

* The ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series has [[https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Fruit_Computers_(HD_Universe) Fruit Computers]]. Their logo is a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything rather phallic-looking]] fruitbowl. The iFruit phone, much like the iPhone it's based on, is portrayed as a status symbol; a [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/gtawiki/images/b/ba/800px-IFruit.png billboard]] for the first-generation iFruit in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV GTA IV]]'' advertises it as "[[AwesomeButImpractical "no buttons, no reception, no storage capacity, all ego"]], and in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV GTA V]]'', the fact that Michael uses an iFruit (versus Franklin and Trevor's comparatively downmarket cellphones) reflects his upper-class lifestyle.

* The ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series has the [[http://www.grandtheftwiki.com/Fruit_Computers Fruit Computers]]. Their logo is a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything rather phallic-looking]] fruitbowl, and for example in [[http://www.grandtheftwiki.com/images/IFruitPhone-GTAV-artwork.jpg this game art poster]] for ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' you can see a girl holding an iFruit phone in her hand. The three playable protagonists use expies of the [=iPhone=], Samsung Galaxy and Nokia Lumia.

* In ''Disney/{{Zootopia}},'' the logo for Judy's [=iPhone=]-workalike is a silhouette of a carrot with a bite taken out of it. It also appears on the film's poster, on mobile devices used by Clawhauser and (again) Judy.

* In the ''Creator/TerryPratchett's Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'' screenplay book, there's a concept sketch of {{Magitek}} geek Ponder Stibbons studying a sketchbook resting on his lap. The cover of the book has a pineapple on it.

* The DisneyChannel variant is the "zPhone" and "zPod", as depicted in episodes of ''Series/HannahMontana'' and ''Series/ShakeItUp''.

Which is probably why nowadays, many fictional computers, tablets, smartphones and other pieces of advanced technology bear a logo shaped like a fruit or another type of food. If it's not a fruit or a food of some kind, it'll still be a monochrome symbol of something recognizable or corresponding to the work's context. And the name could be [whatever letter]Phone. To make the reference even more [[CaptainObvious obvious]], the logo also has a small section bitten off.