Comments on: Straight dope from Fake Steve Jobs

In an exclusive interview, the blogger everyone wants to know the identity of talks about Apple, Bill Gates, the iPhone and more.

[Hep Cat]

Universal had better be careful...

With their market cap, Apple might just buy them to keep the
catalog on iTunes.

Stupid music frigtards. And people call Apple's contract terms
egregious? Hello? At least Apple has only been screwing musicians
for four years - Universal's been doing it for over ten times as
long!

[Fil0403]

Wow, I'm scared...

Following your logic, with Microsoft's market cap, Microsoft might just buy Apple to make sure they keep leaders (as they will anyway, LOL). Stupid Apple fanboy. Yes, I call Apple's contract terms egregious. Hello? At least Universal is not screwing musicians as much as Apple.

[RHartzell]

I got no idea who Fake Steve Jobs really is ...

But I can tell you one thing: he's from New York.

How do I know? I went over to FSJ's blog and was reading an entry from 7/1 that read (in part) as follows:

He says his favorite line out of all the coverage was in this story from the Saturday New York Times where some moron named Norbert who'd waited on line outside the Fifth Avenue shrine since Wednesday ...

"Waited on line ..." It was one of the first linguistic idiosyncrasies I noticed about New Yorkers when I moved to Long Island from St. Louis about 40 years ago: they say "waited on line" and not "waited *in* line."

Not a huge help in the quest to unmask FSJ, I admit -- but it does narrow the field a bit.

[shoffmueller]

Good catch

I first noticed the "wait on line" phrase from Howard Stern. I grew up waiting in line, and I'm not from NY

[missingman]

Sounds like a well-known journalist from another NYC newspaper

I only heard of the FSJ while reading the interview today .. but immediately had a vision of who it could be ... in part based on the phrase "big difference" and in part based on his coverage of Apple-related events.

Your insight of this person being from New York supports my conjecture.

I don't want to out him (if it is indeed him) but my username can serve as a clue as to who I think it is.

[Lindy01]

This guy

hilarious....and his humor is so dead on. I hope he lasts a while.

[flyermoney]

No friggin' way...

Dear C|Tards

Obviously, you did NOT interview the genuine FSJ. Judging by
the feeble responses to your interview, you interviewed some
random fake Fake Steve Jobs. I'd say you're testing an
unsuspecting summer intern to fill in a spot during a slow news
week.

The only frigtard with less edge would be U2's one and fokkin'
only Edge. FSJ is, like, soooo sharper than that! I'm not fooled by
your weak attempt at stealing FSJ's thunder!

Yours? NOT!
flyermoney, un-Enderling brain-farts since clueless was the
norm.

[lkrupp]

C|net bias...

"But given that the real Steve Jobs hasn't talked to CNET in years"

No ****, Sherlock! And why would that be? Maybe because C|net
has such a naked hatred of anything Apple? Maybe because
C|net was bought and paid for by MS years ago? Maybe because
C|net is president of the Bill Gates Fan Club of America?

I mean look at the "user" review ratings of the iPhone. There's
something like 514 posts and 500 of them were posted BEFORE
the iPhone was released. "User" reviews my arse. And now C|net
is pushing those "user" reviews. And, of course, both Safari and
Firefox (Mac) time out because of too many redirects which
means all the reviews were posted by non-Mac "user" of the
iPhone.

And C|net has the audacity to lament the fact that the real SJ
won't talk to them so they interview the fake SJ instead? Throw
me a bone here. Scott. Where are the sharks with the laser
beams on their heads?

[JAG!]

Waste of time and bandwidth

I'm neither an MS or Apple fanboy -- but to waste time interviewing a "fake" Steve Jobs? Who approved this for online publication?

We have enough fakes in the world, they're a dime a dozen.

Should it turn out this FSJ is really him, the guy has issues.

[limefan913]

That was amusing to read...

Thank you Cnet for giving me something to do at 4:41AM EST...

[grandmasterdibbler]

Amen brother.

I was almost bored before I found this at 3.30AM UK time.

[ralfthedog]

I was first. :)

http://bbspot.com/News/2001/03/apple_interview.html