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”Fake Steve Jobs Retiring
Dan Lyons, the man behind Fake Steve Jobs is shutting down the blog: "I know you'll miss FSJ. So will I. But rest assured, Fake Steve is not really going away. He's just taking on a new form. As Jimi Hendrix once said, If I don't see you no more in this world, I'll meet you on the next one, but don't be late." Valleywag has a bit of speculation on why, but only half of it seems right. [FSJ]Dan Lyons (Fake Steve Jobs) Moving to Newsweek
Dan Lyons, aka Fake Steve Jobs, is leaving Forbes after 10 years to fill the vacancy left by Steve Levy, who is going to Wired. Now there are five horsemen of the apocalypse. More »
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Fake Steve Jobs on Android: "It's Not a Phone, It's an Alliance"
Fake Steve's lengthy stream of bile laying waste to the Google Phone isn't simply pure invective, it's actually a mostly well-reasoned indictment of coalitions that trumpets the values of "one vision, one man, one genius." It's worth reading in its entirety, but this is our favorite quote:The only companies that join consortia are the ones who are too stupid or shitty to make a great product on their own. It's like, Hey, we've got forty spazzo companies that can't fuck their way out of a paper bag; let's put them all together and maybe they'll magically become some kind of big bad powerhouse.More »



















