Some days, it's the little things....

So you spend 600.00 for a new way cool phone (yeah, don't give me grief about that... I love my toys and must have them...MUST MUST) and you find that the headphone jack is NOT the same as the ipod headphone jack and you need to use special ear buds or whatever the hell you want to call them. Well that's just plain flaming STUPID. So, when I was at the Apple store yesterday picking up my lovely now fixed and not making ungodly fan noises MacBook Pro, I asked the CSA (Confused Sales Associate) for a new cable I could use to plug the iPhone into the aux jack in my Prius. He told me that I needed an adapter, and provided a Belkin adapter thing that I'm sposed to plug into the iPhone in one end and put my aux cable into the other.

First stupid thing.... open the package. Really, folks, there has to be a middle ground between armor coated impenetrable plastic and something that can be opened quickly and the product pocketed. Once you tear open the perforated back open thing, you find that there is ANOTHER layer of impenetrable plastic with NO perforation, making it utterly impossible to open without a chain saw. So much for testing it out on the way home.

So we get home....since I'm not allowed to use power tools or overly sharp objects, the hubby opened the package and out came the HONKING RIDICULOUS adapter, over 1 inch long. Who KNEW you needed a pretentiously over long lever to bust your iPhone's recessed output jack? So I plug the thing in. Guess what? It doesn't WORK RIGHT! Yep, that's correct... The only way it works in the Prius is to put it in part way and wiggle it around. While that might be great for SOME things, audio fidelity is not one of them. Sounds like crap. *ARGH*

So a pox on Belkin for crappy packaging, and a crappy product. Another pox on Apple for not STANDARDIZING their damn output jacks. Pox pox pox!