I enjoy Fake Steve. It’s the kind of humor none of my friends understand, yet often has me in stitches. Yet Roughly Drafter (linked below), offers a very different take on the methods and possible motives of Fake Steve, and the man behind him, Forbes’ Daniel Lyons.
Daniel Lyons Cries Wolf: The Real Bill Gates Behind the Fake Steve Jobs — RoughlyDrafted Magazine
When the New York Times fingered Lyon as the writer of FSJ, it was revealed that his wit wasn’t exactly splashed around equally. “Mr. Lyons clearly used the Fake Steve persona to further some of his own interests and positions,” the Times noted. “For example, articles in other business publications and their journalists were a frequent target of criticism from Fake Steve, while Forbes got off comparatively easy.” The subjects Lyons cast the most derision upon are targets of Bill Gates: Linux, Google, Apple, and particularly the personality of Steve Jobs. That’s no coincidence.
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