FSJ Shutdown Drama Both Fake and Real
Fake Steve confirmed that his "talks with Apple" about shutdown were fake, in a roundabout way, but slightly more direct for those not quick enough to get it the first time. [Fake Steve]
So much in love with shiny new toys, it's unnatural.
Fake Steve confirmed that his "talks with Apple" about shutdown were fake, in a roundabout way, but slightly more direct for those not quick enough to get it the first time. [Fake Steve]
You like the Steve Jobs? You hate the Steve Jobs? We gave you the textier version yesterday, now here's a clip of his All Things D appearance, in full technicolor moving picture, for you to comment on in your own special way. – Wilson Rothman
This is an iPhone Cake. For the Steve that is Fake. Did it take a long time to Make? I dunno, I'm not very good in the kitchen. [PhotoBucket via The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs]
So in today's news of the strange, Fake Steve Jobs, also known as the real Forbes editor Daniel Lyons, is planning a San Francisco book tour...wait for it...as the mock turtleneck-wearing alter ego. To promote his new fictional book oPtion$: The...
Fake Steve Jobs, aka Forbes Editor Dan Lyons, may regard the tongue-in-cheek idea of a breast implant MP3 player as "shameful sexploitation"—but if it actually existed, it could be the next big thing for Apple. Associating breasts with your...
It's easy to forget, reading the addictive prose, that Fake Steve Jobs is a fictional character. And Dan Lyons a Forbes Editor with a entirely separate persona. That becomes clearer when you watch the author of the Freetard-hating FSJ profess his...
There are three important differences between this turtleneck and those his Steveness actually wears: First, it is slightly cheaper (we suspect). Second, it has the words "Hello my name is Fake Steve Jobs" printed in large, friendly letters on a...
When Fake Steve Jobs, the anonymous blogger who parodied the real man, was asked to cease and desist, he asked for a sugar daddy to keep the site going. After only a few weeks, Wired News emerged as the lucky sponsor. I wonder how much he sold his...
newVideoPlayer("fakestevewoz.flv", 475, 288); At Kepler's bookstore in Menlo Park, minutes from Apple campus, Fake Steve Jobs just finished a great book reading. And Woz introduced him and gifted him a black mock turtleneck, official uniform of...
"BlackBerry is dead. Microsoft is dead. Windows Mobile is dead. Amazon is dead. Kindle is dead. Nokia is dead. Motorola was already dead but now they are even more dead. Google's Android is dead. Samsung is dead. LG is dead. Sony is dead....
There's now a photo floating around that allegedly pictures Fake Steve Jobs holding a special edition, leather-bound Lenovo ThinkPad Reserve. Why this matters, I don't know. But the thing is that some people believe is real and we are going to say...
OMG Fake Steve Jobs! Here's a picture of him, the only one known to exist, which gives us many clues. Clue #1: he has hands. Clue #2: he's married. Clue #3: he likes to wear hats that advertise sports teams he follows. Clue #4: he's dumb enough to...
Yesterday, in the CNN Money/Business 2.0 poll "Who Matters Most", Fake Steve Jobs was ranking higher than the real Steve Jobs.
I'm not part of the hunt, but I can't stop thinking about who Fake Steve is, even if I don't really want to know.
Most parody videos are lame in the sense that they take one joke and stretch it to 60 seconds, but Lenovo's one joke actually works when properly executed. Not to spoil anything, but it's a send-up of the MacBook Air in favor of Lenovo's own X300....
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...
Three gems from Fake Steve Jobs this week. First the comic above.
This is either the best or worst iPhone review ever. Wendy Cheng is apparently the most popular blogger in Singapore. Before giving her the real iPhone, her producers tricked her into reviewing a Chinese knockoff. But she actually liked the fake,...
The announcement at long last of the Apple iPhone today marks the end of an era. For well over a year now there has been rampant speculation about Apple's then-rumored foray into the cell phone field, with everyone wondering what kinds of magical...
iPhone UI Cribbed for Watches: It was only a matter of time before someone stole the iPhone UI for a watch. Unfortunately, this product has a video page that says "coming soon" and has the Sony Ericsson Walkman UI on another screen. What we're...
Yahoo founder and beleaguered CEO Jerry Yang decided yesterday that it was Microsoft's fault that the merger talks fell apart, even though Microsoft upped its bid from $31 to $33 in order to keep negotiations going. Yang wanted $37 per...
This video's painful to watch at moments, because this couple is about the most indecisive pair of people on earth, like when they epically struggle to name the laptop. But you do get to see everything you get in the XO's box, like a letter from...
Avnish Gautam has designed an amazing concept bookmark that lights up at night and covers the area you're reading. The MARK uses flexible OLED technology on a thin piece of plastic to illuminate the reading area to your preferred brightness. I...
Okay, so this is obviously fake, but someone put so much work into it, even concocting a story about keeping their identity a secret, that I figured what the hey—it's always fun to think about. I mean, you it's possible the next iPod could...
It seems ridiculous to compare tech moguls to pro wrestlers and prize fighters, but I can't stop.
You have to have a certain special kind of fetish to enjoy watching German ladies in bikinis destroy gadgets with a scowl on their face, but if anyone fits the bill, we're sure they're in our readership.