Fake Steve Jobs Is Greedy, Outed, and at Work on a Fake Novel

Published: August 6, 2007, 2:43 pm

Tags: in other news, apple, blogs, forbes, publishing, steve jobs

The real Steve Jobs, who is not writing a novel.Photo: Getty Images If you're enough of a techie that the idea of a parody blog written from Steve Jobs's point of view strikes you as rife with comic possibilities, well, you probably already know Fake Steve Jobs. And if you do, you've probably just read (while browsing the Times on your iPhone, no doubt) that the paper exposed the anonymous author of that blog — i.e. Fake Steve himself — as Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes. ("Hope you feel good about yourself, you mangina," wrote Lyons to Times reporter Brad Stone in today's you-got-me post — written in his own voice, not Steve's.) This isn't exactly a JT LeRoy–size bombshell, or even Joe Klein owning up to Primary Colors; to us, in fact, the most notable aspect of the story is that a senior editorship at Forbes apparently leaves one with oodles of free time. Still, there's something deeply funny about the way Fake Steve got fingered. He got greedy. In

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