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Look, I love Apple products. Geoff and I have a Mac desktop and three laptops and five or six iPods, including the Touch. We give iPods as gifts. So don't write a comment saying I'm an Apple basher. None of this "That stupid Sarah Lacy has probably never even USED an Apple product!" Because odds are I've added to their explosive revenues just as much as you have.

But seriously-- does the launch of a phone warrant this much hysteria? I can't think of another company where a product launch is mainstream news time-after-time. Meanwhile, across the street early results were being unveiled about a diabetes drug that could lessen treatments from two shots a day to once a week. You can't tell me that's not more impactful! I'm quite sure at least 19 million people afflicted with Type 2 diabetes would agree. And given the war now brewing for this lucrative part of the health care market, it's probably a better story for investors than the "Yeah Apple is awesome, but don't buy the stock because it can't go up anymore" line that dominated financial news today.

But because I work for the man and aim to please the masses, I did my part of iPhone coverage today. What impressed me was the ramifications of the software, not so much the new handset. But I'm more a software/UI geek than a gadget geek. Here's the piece I did. Yes, I kinda look like a banker.

I Wish I Had Five Me's

Because I have so many half written blog posts!! So busy today at Yahoo and squeezing in all kinds of book stuff in tiny nooks and crannies in the day. (BTW- my husband loathes the phrase "nooks and crannies" so that was meant to make him not miss me while I'm in NYC. He prefers to eat English muffins at restaurants where he doesn't have to see the packaging-- that's how much he hates it!)

So while you wait for me to have five seconds, enjoy my latest Yahoo video with Peter Burrows. Peter is an incredibly sharp BusinessWeek reporter who has covered Apple for like a jillion years. Unlike most reporters who have "covered Apple" he actually has interviewed Steve Jobs many times. We filmed a few segments on his BW cover about Apple's gains in the corporate market, despite itself. Which, of course, means Fake Steve Jobs should be writing something horribly nasty about me... right... about... now.....

(also: notice I am tagging anything about Apple with the TypePad pre-set "religion" tag.)

(btw: if i had five mes, i'd just make them work in the house all day. i wouldn't actually subject the world to that much sarah.)

if you're wondering...

...why all the blogs all the sudden, there are two reasons.

1. we got a new bus. THANK YOU ISRAELI GOV'T! we are not actually sitting on top of one another in sweltering heat. (although craig is still sitting in scoble's lap....we're not quite sure why*) most of us are just clacking away happily on keyboards.

[* may not be true. may be just inserted to see if valleywag has discovered my blog]

2. we are going to Jerusalem today!

ethnic profiling also hits home...

yesterday i found the most rad present EVER for my super hip husband geoff. (who it feels like i haven't seen for MONTHS) it was a black t-shirt with this rad panther jumping from behind hebrew letters that said "black panthers." the shop keepers refused to let me buy it because i was american. in fact, it was worse than that. they all fled the store and went upstairs and just yelled at me from up there. after making me wait 15 minutes. it was the most passive aggressive ethnocentrism i've ever seen. WTF? i thought we were allies?

everyone seems to be *aghast* saying things like this "never" happen in super progressive, hip tel aviv. guess there are just jerks everywhere.

Ish & Crew

so. there was much drama and debate among "the traveling geeks" today. we got a late start and missed our first-- and i guess most important?-- appointment and were running late the rest of the day. we had some afternoon fun planned to go see Ish's bedouin village and then hit up an israeli winery. everyone was super excited about this plan. except our hosts, who really wanted us to make up the meeting we flaked on. totally understandable from their end, they are paying for this trip and spent a great deal of time organizing it.

still, we wanted to see ish's village. the thing about driving around to office parks is they look a lot like silicon valley. and that's fascinating-- as are a good number of the companies-- but to understand israeli entrepreneurs, you need to get more than a demo of their products. you need to get the culture.

so we rebelled and went to the village.