Really? This is where Dan Lyons wants to go? That Samsung doesn’t copy Apple? That “Apple fanboys” simply claim that they do as a knee-jerk response to Samsung’s undeniable success in the smartphone market?
It’s not even a fair fight.
Gruber vs. Lyons
Nonsense! Dan destroys straw men with the best of them.
It’s gotta suck when the vast majority of the sanity-based community recognizes that you were at your most insightful when pretending to be a lunatic CEO.
I’ve decided to chime into this one on my own blog (this whole commenting debate just got *real*).
I ended up calling Dan Lyons a fanboy and compared him to a gnat.
It was the heat of the moment.
http://atomictrevor.com/2012/01/10/the-anti-apple-fanboy-fanboy/
LOL Is there anyone who has fallen from (arguably) great to mediocre/irrelevant faster than Dan Lyons?
Agreed. He was great and funny as Fake Steve Jobs but after that he seemed to go off the deep end when it came to Apple hate, and seems to always be wrong.
Lyons longs for the days where he was influential as Fake Steve Jobs. Now he just gets hits the old fashioned way, using hyperbole and standard attacks on Apple supporters. I honestly don’t know where Lyons was getting the material for Fake Steve Jobs, because Real Dan Lyons has none of the wit, humor or subtlety evident in the FSJ writing. Now it’s just bitterness and hit whoring,
Lyons, unlike paid hit whores/quote machines like Enderle and Thurrott, doesn’t strike me as a mercenary. He seems genuinely pissed off that Apple is successful and finds so much support amongst consumers.
I’m not sure if it’s a fair fight. But you certainly won’t get a fair commentary of whatever it is on here.
I think that Lyons just want to keep his name relevant.
This is the comment of the day.
Lyons is so pathetically desperate in his quest to become relevant and popular again, it’s not even funny anymore.
Which in turn makes me think he might’ve actually meant all the things he said as Fake Steve Jobs.
I wish he were still fake and I didn’t know who he was. It was so fun, and I loved him!
And he secretly loves all of his Apple kit, which makes him even more bitter.
Popcorn!
“I honestly don’t know where Lyons was getting the material for Fake Steve Jobs, because Real Dan Lyons has none of the wit, humor or subtlety evident in the FSJ writing.”
That’s an excellent point. I knew Dan was FSJ and, when he was outted, I looked forward to his writing as Dan Lyons. But it has *none* of the flair of FSJ. It’s really odd.
I can’t help but think you are right. He dropped the Fake Steve thing ‘out of respect’ but most folks don’t know his real name so he has to do something to get attention