PROFILES IN CHRISTMAS SHOPPING (aka, "But I don't want an IPhone...") -- by Steve Nadis
Maybe Apple salesmen are under pressure to unload their IPhones. I was at the mall the other day trying to figure out a way to download digitial pictures from a new Sprint cellphone, which I'd just purchased for my wife, onto her Mac. I went to the Apple Store, which was right next to the Sprint Store, to try to find an adaptor that would do the job. They acted like I was crazy--like the kind of technology I was looking for did not exist. My best best, they said, would be to buy an IPhone (at a cost of $399). But I just need a USB adaptor, I insisted. Sorry, I was told, but we don't know how you could patch something like that together. Rather than buy an IPhone, I went down the hall to Best Buy, where I purchased the adaptor I needed for just $14.99. In this case, the store lived up to its name.
