The once-mysterious blogger known as “Fake Steve Jobs” is turning off his iPhone for good.

Daniel Lyons, the former Forbes magazine journalist who wrote the blog “The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs” for the last two years, is moving on with his professional life and creative pursuits.

In a final entry Wednesday titled, “I’m sailing away,” the author, who is moving to Newsweek as a technology columnist that fall, said he was shutting down the popular parody of

the life of the Apple chief executive and starting a new blog under his own name.

Lyons said he had grown tired of his fictional creation, but mainly he was worried about making fun of a real person whose health had been a recent topic of speculation. Jobs said he was healthy in response to a reporter’s question last month.

“I tried transitioning to other voices, like Jerry Yang’s, but it just […]

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