Then it suddenly clicked that he couldn't get into Steve's head well enough to pull off the character
So, wait. When you were judging the writing based on the writing, you thought one thing. When you were judging it based on the guy doing the writing, you, uh, figured out that the writing was worse than you thought before you acquired some extraneous information?
FSJ was never supposed to be about what Steve Jobs would actually think about. It was always poking fun at what people said about Jobs -- and since the most prominent people saying things about Jobs are tech journalists, it's fine for a tech journalist to write it.
It's more that FSJ pretty badly mischaracterized Steve, but the flaws were easier to shrug off when I couldn't easily pin down why in particular he was mischaracterized that particular way.
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Then it suddenly clicked that he couldn't get into Steve's head well enough to pull off the character
So, wait. When you were judging the writing based on the writing, you thought one thing. When you were judging it based on the guy doing the writing, you, uh, figured out that the writing was worse than you thought before you acquired some extraneous information?
FSJ was never supposed to be about what Steve Jobs would actually think about. It was always poking fun at what people said about Jobs -- and since the most prominent people saying things about Jobs are tech journalists, it's fine for a tech journalist to write it.
It's more that FSJ pretty badly mischaracterized Steve, but the flaws were easier to shrug off when I couldn't easily pin down why in particular he was mischaracterized that particular way.