[RIJIMMY]

I hate Apple, always have.
I think they're a marketing engine that tries to sell you on whats cool. There are some cool innivations they've come up with but others have done it better. Its like a cult of crap
So I get an iPad for Christmas. Way too much $$ but the wife was excited to get it for me.
I fall in love with the Garage Band app - in order to plug in guitar, you need a$100 digital interface. Fine, go to the Apple store get the Apogee Jam. All over the package - for Ipad2.
I get it home, doenst work. go online- all kinds of noise that interface has issues with apple (even though thats what its made for). spend an hour with tech support, no luck. Then, my Ipad speakers dont work, volume thinks it has headphones plugged in. Back online - all kinds of noise with people having this issue. WTF? I call apple support. The guy tells me there must be dirt in the headphone jack. I tell him this is 3 weeks old, never left my house, and in a protective case. I have a droid phone I beat the crap out of, carry in my pocket and yet the headphones and speaker work perfectly, but an apple product is so fragile it gets "dirty" and wont work from home use? I then go off on a tangent on how I've had pcs for years, all kinds of music recording software and NEVER had a single problem. we spend another hour on the phone - log into itunes on my other computer, running around teh house - f-that. He says I can go to the apple store and I actually, I need to drive the 40mins to go there anyway to return the Apogee. I had enough and called Best Buy (where wife bought it) I tell them the quality is crap, what can I do to return it. they said I can get all $$$ back as long as I return in a week or so. So im going to apple and it no luck, Im returing this. If I buy something and it causes me more grief than good then its not worth it.