Discount Competence

I hung up the phone from a conversation with a friend on Saturday and noticed that, once again, my phone had lost all of its saved email and sent/received calls. I had been trying to talk myself out of buying an iPhone since they had gone on sale about 24 hours prior, but this was the last straw. I was getting an iPhone. I drove to the mall, parked, walked inside, and had an 8GB iPhone within about 15 minutes. I was psyched. I quickly drove home, opened the package and began to drool over my new toy. I carefully removed it from its packaging, connected the USB cable, and after a quick upgrade to the newest iTunes, I was minutes away from euphoria — or so I thought.

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