John Gruber on Dan Lyons’ crap story:
Another way to look at this story, then, is that maybe Google really did want those Nortel patents, and when they didn’t get them, they knew they were in a worse position than ever, patent-wise, with Android. And then Motorola started threatening — publicly, just this month — to wage patent warfare against other Android handset makers. And started talking about support for Windows Phone. We now know that while Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha and badass 11-percent-of-the-company shareholder Carl Icahn were making these threats to wage a patent civil war against other Android handset makers, they were actively negotiating with Google on a buyout. Does anyone, Lyons included, think it’s a coincidence that these stories — not based on speculation but on-the-record statements by the CEO and the company’s biggest shareholder — came out one week before this acquisition was announced?
And MG Siegler on the same story:
This all begs the question: over the past two years, would you have gained more knowledge by reading Lyons, or by having your head up your own ass?
Tough call.
That’s gotta hurt!
First, it does not “beg the question”, but rather “raises the question”. As a professional writer, Siegler should know the difference.
Second, why is *anyone* still reading Lyons? Without much effort, you can forget he exists. I did, and you can too!
When Fake Steve first started and through its prime, Lyons showed a deep understanding of Apple and its CEO. It was a great blog–both his writing and some of the comments. Now I feel like he’s being deliberately dimwitted just to garner page views. I think I read his new blog twice since when it debuted, but haven’t gone back. I don’t think the Fake Steve blog could work any more even if the author was still anonymous, but I miss it a lot.
Skimmed the article. Decided it was flame/link bait and moved on. This guy is in junior high school right? Hopefully he will show better judgment when he matures.
Yeah, it looks like Google had to take the whole fist from Motorola instead of just a finger or two after they lost out on the Nortel patents.