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Apple Lawyering Up On "Fake Steve Jobs"
An anonymous reader sends us to The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs for a developing situation. Daniel Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs, made a post earlier today revealing that Apple was offering him some money (in the wake of the ThinkSecret shutdown) to close down his blog. He said he was interested in taking it. A few hours later, Lyons posted again revealing that Apple's lawyers had contacted him angrily, saying the details of the deal were supposed to remain private. Fake Steve replied 'we either deal out in the open, completely transparently, or we don't deal.' A third post gives details of Apple's lawyers' next response, going totally medieval on him. Since then the situation has calmed down a bit.
I don't need a new reason to vilify Apple. Their shitty history is more then enough reason. I so long for the days when I can buy an Apple for 2x what it should cost so that I can run 4 pieces of software all provided by Apple while smiling about what a great experience it is to live in the Apple womb.
And as other have pointed out he wasn't writing In Character so even if I was familiar with the blog, I'd have been fooled.
I expect fake stories to make it through on April fools day. While an occasional few get through, and this could be one of them, it doesn't put the blame on the reader for falling for it.
Crikey - use of the word "cunt" getting +4 funny. Slashdot's grown-ups having the day off?