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Fake Steve Jobs

Fake Steve Jobs misses the real point

November 16, 2022November 11, 2009

Last week the New York Times ran a story about Internet companies selling imaginary things: These so-called virtual goods, like a $1 illustration of a Champagne bottle on Facebook or the $2.50 Halloween costume in the online game Sorority Life, are no more than a collection of pixels on a Web page. But it is …

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