How come this is the only article claiming that the engineer who lost the phone was fired?
The author also claims that criminal charges were filed against the blogger who found the phone. What blogger would that be? The phone was bought by Gawker who had one of their paid bloggers write about it, but he did not find it. Did the person who found it also have a blog?
Also, he claims Apple files these alleged charges. Really? I must have missed where Apple became the District Attorney. At most Apple reported the phone stolen.
There have been a gazillion articles covering this, and a gazillion minus one were better than this one.
I don't mean to be pedantic (and I certainly don't mean to defend this article), but the author doesn't claim that the engineer was fired; they say, "Apple may yet fire the engineer". Which is true, I suppose - Apple may yet fire any of their employees. Nevertheless, it is still a ridiculously speculative thing to write in a "news story".
It looks like the article is being updated (without being so marked). Shortly before I posted it said that "Apple summarily fired the engineer who lost the phone".
The author also claims that criminal charges were filed against the blogger who found the phone. What blogger would that be? The phone was bought by Gawker who had one of their paid bloggers write about it, but he did not find it. Did the person who found it also have a blog?
Also, he claims Apple files these alleged charges. Really? I must have missed where Apple became the District Attorney. At most Apple reported the phone stolen.
There have been a gazillion articles covering this, and a gazillion minus one were better than this one.