Apple Hype

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With all the hype around the Apple products revealed yesterday calming down, it is now the time to analyze it.  I won’t go in great details but a few things picked my interest.

First OTM, on TV was headlining iDisappointment?  Who’s your advertiser?  Microsoft?

Second, I thought it was interesting how Apple prominently showed the iPhone, which in itself is really an amazing feat of technology and second only iTV.

Bare with me, the iPhone is slendid.  Revolutionary?  No.  It has been thought of before, asked for and desired so to me, that is not revolutionary.  SmartPhones have been on the scene for a while failing to overwhelm us.  I believe the iPhone is the beginning of any more to come.

Technology
It is choke full of technology, typical of Apple, well designed, well thought of and truly a well integrated product.  This is what SmartPhones were suppose to be.  Unfortunately, Cingular is the worse company Apple could have chosen with the reputed poor customer service.  We’ll see if other can carry it.

The real deal
I feel iTV is the real trojan horse here.  It is clearly aimed at taking over the last wild market in this crazy IT world; the media entertainment center.

Sure the Xbox is positioning itself but in typical Microsoft ways, it will take time, not as sexy and not nearly as well planned out, crippled with Windows in the middle.  Apple is poised to take over a no-brainer, the multimedia center in your home.

After all it makes sense, they’ve had over 20 years work to back it up.

To be followed…

More Foreclosures Nationwide

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The Sacramento Business Journal report foreclosures increased 94 percent last year to 157,417 homes in California compared to 971,000 nationwide.  To be fair, it is not a huge number but again watching the trend in the few months should prove interesting in order to determine the overall economy.

California holds the record with the most foreclosures filed nationwide, according to ForeclosureS.com.

It is interesting to see how much of them were in California.  Almost one of every nine foreclosures. 

ForeclosureS.com believes the housing market will improve, since home inventories now are dropping

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