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Nick Denton,
6:08 PM on Tue Jan 30 2007,
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Apple's decision,
to pay up $700,000 in legal costs incurred by Thinksecret and other blogs, might be a harbinger of a kinder Cupertino tech giant, or at least one less obsessed by trade secrets. Don't count on it. The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, a spoof chronicle of the narcissistic Apple chief exec's inner life, is to
close down after unspecified legal threats. Jobs' online impersonator leaves his readers with this cartoon, from a Japanese magazine.