How Arrington Would Have Handled The Stolen iPhone Story
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How Arrington Would Have Handled The Stolen iPhone Story
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Re: How Arrington Would Have Handled The Stolen iPhone Story
#2Michael Arrington suffers from the worst possible case of selective memory imaginable. It wasn't that long ago that TC was involved in their own scandal when they gave a kid a Macbook pro in exchange for an article that at least three quarters of the tech community debunked as fud.
Then this happens, and he actually grandstands and says "I would never have done that", and tries to tell us he'd actually be an ethical reporter?
And the Oscar goes to...
Re: How Arrington Would Have Handled The Stolen iPhone Story
#3Michael Arrington suffers from the worst possible case of selective memory imaginable. It wasn't that long ago that TC was involved in their own scandal when they gave a kid a Macbook pro in exchange for an article that at least three quarters of the tech community debunked as fud. Then this happens, and he actually grandstands and says "I would never have done that", and tries to tell us he'd actually be an ethical…
To be fair the kid asked for the laptop without Arringtons knowledge. They fired the offending employee and removed all his material from Techcrunch. They were very transparent about the whole incident
Re: How Arrington Would Have Handled The Stolen iPhone Story
#4Michael Arrington suffers from the worst possible case of selective memory imaginable. It wasn't that long ago that TC was involved in their own scandal when they gave a kid a Macbook pro in exchange for an article that at least three quarters of the tech community debunked as fud. Then this happens, and he actually grandstands and says "I would never have done that", and tries to tell us he'd actually be an ethical…
To be fair the kid asked for the laptop without Arringtons knowledge. They fired the offending employee and removed all his material from Techcrunch. They were very transparent about the whole incident
Thank you for the clarification on this.
I stand by my point that Arrington isn't exactly the most scrupulous tech blogger out there either, and this article just reeks of self-importance and conceit.
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#5It's very easy to say things like this after the fact; "I would never have done that".
However, despite my vague dislike of Arrington I believe he wouldn't have actually paid for it.
I disapprove of his conceit in posting this though...
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#6Does every TechCrunch post appear on HN now?
n.b. no offense, OP
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#7If I had found the iphone... I would have walked around SFO asking people if they lost an iPhone prototype. Starting on Market Street and working my way down to San Jose.
Being that the iPhone is very popular, lots of people would have wanted to see it so... I would have charged them $5 no wait... $20 each to hang out with the iphone for 1 minute, and $50 each for a Polariod of them and the Prototype. I would have continued this pattern until I:
1.) Talked with everyone in the SFO area 2.) Could not carry anymore money 3.) Ran in to Steve Jobs and returned the lost prototype to it's rightful owner.
Eventually I would have found the owner and could sleep easy at night knowing I did everything I could to return it, In the end I would have made way more money than $5000 and returned the iphone.
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#8Does every TechCrunch post appear on HN now? n.b. no offense, OP
Nope, just every iPhone 4 story.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair the kid asked for the laptop without Arringtons knowledge. They fired the offending employee and removed all his material from Techcrunch. They were very transparent about the whole incident
Thank you for the clarification on this. I stand by my point that Arrington isn't exactly the most scrupulous tech blogger out there either, and this article just reeks of self-importance and conceit.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair the kid asked for the laptop without Arringtons knowledge. They fired the offending employee and removed all his material from Techcrunch. They were very transparent about the whole incident
Thank you for the clarification on this. I stand by my point that Arrington isn't exactly the most scrupulous tech blogger out there either, and this article just reeks of self-importance and conceit.
this article just reeks of self-importance and conceit
Whoa, TechCrunch is a blog?