The whole section devoted to explaining why they're choosing to publish "off the record" communication seems like a really weak justification to me. Sure, I get

The whole section devoted to explaining why they're choosing to publish "off the record" communication seems like a really weak justification to me. Sure, I get that the reporter should agree to that before receiving the information, but this is an email, the reporter could have closed the email upon reading the words "Off the record". Instead, knowing the source wanted to speak off the record, they went ahead and published it anyway. Seems kind of scummy. Even if you don't agree that it's scummy, it also just seems like a bad idea on the journalist's part to piss off Apple PR. Good luck getting any more info out of them in the future!