Writing at his new blog, the Wirecutter, former Gizmodo editor Brian Lam reminisces (and explains in more detail) about the time he controversially emailed Steve Jobs, demanding Apple confirm it had lost the iPhone 4 prototype that ended up at the Gizmodo offices and then on the Web for all to see.
As Lam writes:
An hour after the story went live, the phone rang and the number was from Apple HQ. I figured it was someone from the PR team. It was not.
“Hi, this is Steve. I really want my phone back.”
He wasn’t demanding. He was asking. And he was charming and he was funny. I was half-naked, just getting back from surfing, but I managed to keep my shit together.
“I appreciate you had your fun with our phone and I’m not mad at you, I’m mad at the sales guy who lost it. But we need the phone back because we can’t let it fall into the wrong hands.”
I thought, maybe its already in the wrong hands?
Much, much more on “Steve Jobs Was Always Kind To Me (Or, Regrets of An Asshole)” at The Wirecutter.
