Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Fake Steve Jobs Says 'Leave the Real One Alone'

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the vacation-sounds-nice dept.

Stoobalou writes "Dan Lyons, who has been lampooning Apple's Steve Jobs for many years, has posted his last item as Fake Steve Jobs and signed off. Lyons, who has been impersonating the messianic Apple supremo in the notorious tech blog since 2006 and even managed to maintain his anonymity for quite some time, despite being a well-known tech hack, has parked his vitriolic pen for the last time." Most people expect FSJ to return if RSJ does.

3 of 166 comments (clear)

  1. About time really.... by bazmail · · Score: 3, Informative

    I thought that Fake Steve blog shut down 2 years ago. It was funny for a while but got stale real fast when he was unmasked and the whole book thing.

  2. Re:We might stop making fun of him by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    If true, I would suspect it was an automatic sale from a pre-existing stock divesting plan that's been in place for a year or more. At my old company, if you didn't use a long term plan for when to sell shares (either by naming certain times of year or certain stock prices, and amounts), you were limited by the company lawyers to a couple of weeks per year where you were allowed to sell.

  3. Re:We might stop making fun of him by node+3 · · Score: 3, Informative

    In 1999, when he and Phil Schiller announced the iBook with built-in WiFi, the term WiFi hadn't even been invented yet, it was called AirPort by Apple, and 802.11b by everyone else, and Apple products were the first to have it built-in. Apple worked with Lucent in the development of 802.11b.

    (disregard if you were being ironic)