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From the article; "When it released the update Wednesday, Apple was vague about what benefits version 8.2.1 offered users.
"iTunes 8.2.1 provides a number of important bug fixes and addresses an issue with verification of Apple devices," was all a release note stated."
I read that as; iTunes was updated to prevent the Pre from working with it, sounds like something Microsoft would do does it not?
I guess I don't see why it's a big deal. If Pre designed the phone with the intent of using a competitor's program to sync music and video, by fooling that program into thinking it was the competitor's device, why is it surprised when the competitor shuts that loophole?
I guess I don't see why it's a big deal. If Pre designed the phone with the intent of using a competitor's program to sync music and video, by fooling that program into thinking it was the competitor's device, why is it surprised when the competitor shuts that loophole?
And iTunes blows anyway.
Imagine if MS had designed their software to only allow other MS products to be used on it. People would cry foul, petition, and probably get the Government involved. Wait that actually happened.
Imagine if MS had designed their software to only allow other MS products to be used on it. People would cry foul, petition, and probably get the Government involved. Wait that actually happened.
But when Apple does it, no one cares.
It's hypocritical.
It would be hypocritical if I had a big problem with MS or something, but I don't. Although I get your point - when MS uses proprietary technology it's trying to ruin the industry, and when Apple does so, it's just trying to guarantee a great customer experience or something. Although I have an iPhone that I like a lot, I'm not an Apple fan - I just don't understand why this is a big deal. Palm has made devices that sync with PCs for years, and they used to use Palm Desktop to sync, so it's not as though they don't know how to do this. I'm surprised that their "official" method for syncing music and video is to use a program designed to sync up iPhones and ipods. They could have chosen any number of ways to sync the Pre, including drag and drop, or the use of a wide variety of programs like Winamp, etc.
I don't know that much about the Pre, but I would think Palm would sieze the opportunity to be kind of the "anti-iPhone" in terms of making it easy to transfer data between the device and a PC and/or opening up the device to use with programs other than iTunes. My PC knows my iPhone is a hard drive, but Apple has forced me to use iTunes, which blows, to manage any and all transfer of data between the device and my computer, whether it's music, video, photos, phone numbers, and calendar appointments. It would be nice to manage this stuff more directly without having to go through the whole iTunes sync process every time.
Palm re-enables iTunes sync in Pre software update
"Palm Inc has escalated its battle with rival Apple Inc, updating the software on its Pre smartphone so that it can again sync with Apple's iTunes media management software."
it's so leeching off another company. I'm sure Apple will fix it soon enough.....
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Palm re-enables iTunes sync in Pre software update
