There aren’t many who can hold a candle to the $US2.8 trillion Apple. Although, ask Chris Ellison, MinRes is apparently one of them.

The MinRes managing director put in a shift at half-year results last Thursday. The mining billionaire’s “expletive-riddled rant” against bearish analysts has been covered in these pages. Unremarked was Ellison’s strange and hyperbolic comparisons between the Cupertino tech juggernaut and his WA iron ore and lithium company.