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Brian Deagon of Investor’s Business Daily Makes an absurd prediction for the new year:

“1. Apple will lose its cool factor.

With the iPod, iPhone and iPad, Apple (AAPL) redefined markets and defined cool. But what’s left? The iPhone is boxy, flat and feeling stale. The Samsung Galaxy smartphone seems cooler. With Google’s (GOOG) Android platform now the fastest-growing mobile OS, Apple’s software advantage will diminish. Smartphones and tablets will become commodity items and Apple will be eaten by the collective Android gang. Apple’s next big hope is the TV market, a tough nut to crack and where Samsung is king.”

I’m not sure what world he’s living in. Buying Apple products isn’t just about being “cool” the way it was “cool” to wear your jeans backwards for the few months when Kris Kross was popular in 1992. It’s a trend thirteen years in the making.

iPhones and iPods are relatively inexpensive status symbols. It’s hard to think of any other area where the very best thing you can buy (even if you’re a billionaire, the president of the United States, or a movie star) is exactly the same thing anybody can walk into an Apple store and buy for $200. The Ferrari of phones is still an iPhone.

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