The cult of the Apple Store

If you've ever wondered what kind of training is required to get Apple employees to behave the way they do at the opening of a new retail outlet or the launch of a new iPhone -- whooping, hollering and tearing around the shopping mall -- David Sega's front-page story in Sunday's New York Times offers some clues.The piece, Part 4 in the paper's puzzling series about the company, begins like the others -- setting Apple up as the exemplar of all that is wrong with the companies that make up the "iEconomy": avoiding taxes, exporting jobs, exploiting Chinese workers and, in this piece, creating dead-end jobs in retail sales.