"...after failing to buy a non-iPod FM transmitter (preferably a Belkin TuneCast II like the one I recently lost) at CompUSA, because all they carry now are FM transmitters that jack into the proprietary connections on iPods."iPod's dominance in the mp3 player market is a self-perpetuating phenomenon. All the retailers figure you want the iPod and carry little else in the way of options. The local Circuit City's mp3 player aisle is 90 percent iPod accessories.
The player's themselves (iPods included) are all under lock and key in a case at knee level. Best Buy, which has dozens of every other kind of gadget, had about eight mp3 players, including iPods.
Both stores let you pick up and play with floor models of digital cameras, cell phones, heck, everything...except mp3 players. Everything behind lock and key. At least there were iPod's wired to the Bose speaker floor samples so you could hold one of those in your hand.
Visited both stores and left with nothing.
