There’s this goober over on Seeking Alpha by the name of Mark Krieger. His picture is out of focus. His opinion is based on selective facts. Some of his facts are only partial pieces of whole facts. He claims to be short Apple. If you look at his picture, you can see the effect of only pulling one’s head out of one’s ass long enough for a snapshot.

He uses the word “juncture” and puts the word “weakening” in quotation marks to offset the fact that he has nothing to say.

If he really is short Apple, he’s going to lose money.

Shame, that.

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Another Seeking Alpha writer opines that maybe it’s too soon to start buying Motorola, and that maybe Motorola is truly toast.

More on that later.

The point of the mention is to highlight that, in contrast, you don’t have to be clueless to write for Seeking Alpha. It isn’t a disqualification though.

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This brings us to our “iPhone Killer” segment in which we present the BlackBerry Bold, which will go on sale any day, and the Experia X5 which is still so shrouded in mystery as to be completely nonexistent (like Android). There isn’t even a badly Photoshopped picture to be found.

The BlackBerry Bold will be available soon. That will officially take it off the “iPhone killer” list. It has a smaller screen, no multitouch, no App Store, and a great big crappy keyboard. The Times of London says it “looks like a serious piece of kit.” That’s pretty close to what I would have guessed. Once it’s available for actual sale it will lose its status on RR as an iPhone killer, though. 

Then there’s the Experia X5. There aren’t any real pictures of the dogdamn thing anywhere. There are some partial specs leaked around and about.  It might meet all the criteria for an iPK, but who knows? The Sony Experia X5 may be the über-iPhone killer. It doesn’t even have a photoshopped picture to recommend it.

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I want to talk a little more about Motorola, Nokia, LG, and the other handset makers. The Seeking Alpha article about the impending doom of Motorola has me worried. You see, the other handset makers are toast.

TOAST.

That isn’t to say that the best of them can’t cannibalize each others’ pathetic piece of the iPhone’s market, but their days as business behemoths are over.

Apple makes one model of phone. Okay, maybe if you count different amounts of RAM and body color you can call them different models, but that exhausts the differences between different iPhone 3Gs.

Motorola, Nokia, LG, Samsung, RIM, et. al. make scads of different models. Each one with its own feature set and price point. There are flip phones and music phones and phones with slide out keyboards. There are simple phones that just make calls and phones so full of useless features that nobody can figure out how to make the fecking things make a phone call without the manual.

Smartphones and dumb phones and in-between phones.

It’s impossible for the average guy on the street to keep track of what all those frigging models do and cost and which phone has what feature set.

The iPhone has one feature set. That means one ad campaign. One software upgrade path. One team working on design and development. That also means that the average goober on the street (me) at least thinks he knows what he’s buying when he asks for an iPhone. You have to play with the other phones for weeks – manual in hand –just to figure out what stump-humpers even do.

Also, it’s easier to say, “just give me an iPhone” than it is to sort through all the other options. This is especially true when you consider that all the other options are “not an iPhone.”

As Howard Sun says in his piece on Seeking Alpha, it used to be okay for handset makers to make a slew of “good” handsets. Confusing the consumer with myriad choices gave a company fair odds of selling a nondescript brick. Now there is one “great” handset on the market – the iPhone.

One company had the testicular toughness to bet the ranch on a single model. Apple just changed the game.

Everybody missed it.

So if you’re one of those other phone makers you aren’t even in the game anymore.

Sucks to be you.

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Roseanne Barr doesn’t like Jon Voight, Angelina Jolie, or Brad Pitt and took time out of her busy day to write about it on her web site. I only point that out for those of you who think my blog is a waste of time. It could be worse. At least I’ve never tried to sing the Star Spangled Banner in public.

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Knight Rider is back on TV.

The Dukes of Hazzard can’t be far away.

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Geek horror movie title not far down the road…..

Vista: The cockroach that ate Redmond.