The Gig Is Up

Who is the guy directly to the left of this text? Well it's none other than Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes magazine. Why is this important? Because he is the one and only Fake Steve Jobs.

Click here for the NY Times article.

Click here for the FakeSteve.Blogspot article.

I can honestly say that I'm a little bummed that they found out who he really was. I sort of liked the idea of this mystery person being able to write, without worry, what ever sort of satire they wanted about Apple, the tech indistury, and the one and only Steve Jobs himself.

Now that the gig is up, I don't see FakeSteve being much fun anymore. People will go after Lyons when he writes bad things, if they aren't already, and honestly, you can't write satire when people get miffed at you.

I know there is at least one person who is moderately relived, even if he says otherwise. That is the one and only Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago Sun-Times. A lot of people thought he was Fake Steve. A lot of people gave him a really really hard time about it. Well, those people are wrong. So leave Andy alone. Even if most of what he writes is not funny.

I mean, I don't want to hate on Andy, but between his stuff in print, and when I listen to him on MacBreak Weekly, I mean, give it up man. If you're going to be a reporter, be a reporter. You're not funny. You've never been funny. You never will be funny. You just don't have it in you man. So stop, please, stop trying to be funny. Just be a reporter. There isn't anything wrong with that. You're pretty decent at it, and often times pretty darn good. But there is one thing you're not good at. Being funny. So stop. Please.

-Steve