I want to short Apple so bad right now. But if I did, it would be a completely emotional play since I hate Apple. I am a hater. I’m going to release some of my feelings here so I don’t do anything silly. Apple is a superstar right now just like Sarah Palin and you can’t short something that is so blatantly brilliant. Here’s why I hate Apple.

• Their ridiculous marketing that can easily fool and brainwash poor saps
• The CIA/FBI/Nuclear code level secrecy and protection they have for their products
• The fact that when you buy their products they own you
• The fact that when you develop applications for their products they literally own you
• The insane 12 year old girls screaming for boy-bands level fan base that they’ve somehow accumulated
• The bubbly, happy, bright, colorful GUI interface they always seem to develop
• The bubbly, happy, bright, colorful apple users I see in coffee shops pretending to be working
• The fact that they call their tech support “geniuses”
• They called their latest product the “iPad”
• Market cap is equal to Microsoft…Ha!
• All I can envision are these lame, young, hip, nerdy douchebags sitting in a Starbucks with their MacBooks ignorantly bidding up the price of Apple’s stock with each fanatical purchase of a new Apple product not really knowing what they are getting into. 70% of the run up in Apple’s price has got to be due to these ignorant fanatics thinking Apple is going to take over the world.

And now on to the iPhone. Actually, I give it mad props; it is a pretty amazing, pushed cell phones to a whole new era piece of technology. The only problem is, Apple loves to control everything, hardware and software. Right now they are on top of the world, dominating the cell phone market. But, it is their lack of willingness to compromise that is going to knock them straight back down to the novelty items with a few measly percentage points of market share level. I really think Android is going to emerge victorious here just like Microsoft and IBM did back in the good old days. The Android is a phone OS that functions and performs just like the iPhone but is not limited in terms of hardware. Sure there isn’t anything wrong with how the iPhone looks, feels or performs, but you’ve got two choices, XGB or 2XGB. Gee, thanks Apple.  When there is a large line up of Android devices with multiple flavors and mixtures of features, I can find the exact phone I’m looking for. Small; durable; minimal with no camera; flip phone; an actual keyboard; cheap; whatever I want, assuming there is enough demand out there, will eventually come to fruition. And, as an added bonus, I won’t be a slave to the evil Apple empire. The key here is the customer base, and it grows larger and larger when you offer pretty much the same OS but with a wider range of hardware devices. You see, the war isn’t Apple versus Google…it’s Apple versus Google and a ton of it’s homies.