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I will not regret things professionally. The scoop was big. People loved it. If I could do it again, I’d do the first story about the phone again.
But I probably would have given the phone back without asking for the letter. And I would have done the story about the engineer who lost it with more compassion and without naming him. Steve said we’d had our fun and we had the first story but we were being greedy. And he was right. We were. It was sore winning. And we were also being short sighted. And, sometimes, I wish we never found that phone at all. That is basically the only way this could have been painless. But that’s life. Sometimes there’s no easy way out.
I thought about the dilemma every day for about a year and half. It caused me a lot of grief, and stopped writing almost entirely. It made my spirit weak. Three weeks ago, I felt like I had had enough. I wrote my apology letter to Steve.
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Steve Jobs Was Always Kind To Me (Or, Regrets of An Asshole) | The Wirecutter
I wasn’t a fan of how Gizmodo handled the iPhone 4 scandal, I still think nearly every decision they made was wrong and they hurt too many people over the course along the way.
Maybe I’m naive, maybe Brian Lam is truly sincere — either way, this post shows some of the integrity and respect that was so missing a year ago. I’m impressed that Brian’s publicly taken responsibility and expressed regrets.
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