Sunday, March 30, 2008 -- 12:10 a.m. -- on my couch

**UPDATE: I got a comment from caller Robert who really opened my eyes -- callers do that for me. He said that my bitterness was showing on this whole analyst thing.

Know what? I think he's right. I never intended to sound bitter, but people perceive things differently and I can see why Robert would think that.

So thanks, Robert ... for that slap across the face of reality. I'll let the analysts do their job and I'll do mine - to bring you iPhone news the best way I know how.

Although I still think that Bank of America needs to work on the credit card offers, but that's just me.**

ORIGINAL POST BELOW

So you all know how much I love analysts and their groundbreaking information on the future of Apple products. On Friday, it was Bank of America jumping on the bandwagon, saying it's likely coming in June.

Here's an idea, Bank of America -- how about you spend your time trying to keep 3 of the same credit card offers from hitting my mailbox in the same day and leave the iPhone forecasting to me.

We good? Great.

Thanks for calling.

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I can sign on and second that!

SCOTT'S REPLY: Thanks, Chris. I updated my original post just a little -- but I appreciate it.

Awesome. I love this post. When I first heard about this I was wondering what the heck Bank of America had to do with the iPhone. You've put this in better perspective than I could ever hope to myself. Of all the blogs out there on the iPhone, the Mac or Apple in general, this is the one I always check first.

SCOTT'S REPLY: Thanks, Bob!

Agree with you in general but it doesn't necessarily mean that we can totally discount the 2nd Q 3G possibility. It just means that their guess is as good or bad as anybody else's..... I guess.

SCOTT'S REPLY: Oh, no ... it absolutely doesn't mean that. I'm not saying they are never right ... just that there's a lot of rehashing of already stated news disguised to look new. Exactly ... no one knows for sure ... everyone has a different reason for their guesses -- mine being June at WWDC or in time for the holiday rush. Both make sense depending on how you choose to analyze.

Amen to that!

What bothers me is that if I applied and was approved for all the credit cards that are solicited to me, I would have a credit limit well over our household income.

At one point, I had a friend who, between his wife and himself, hand a household income of about $50,000. He told me that he went through his credit card accounts and cancelled the ones they didn't use or need. What amazed him was that when he did that, his total combined credit limit was almost $100,000!!

I'm all for people paying their bills and not filing bankruptcy over credit cards, but these companies are out of control. I don't like the idea of the government stepping in to tell banks how they disperse credit, but it would seem appropriate to have some kind of limit to how many offers people receive.

I suppose these banks don't do proper credit checks, which would tell them the amount of credit a person has available, not just how much they have used.

Oh well, I think I'll go charge something...

SCOTT'S REPLY: Off to the Apple store .... :-D

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