Apple are meanies shocker!
By Benny Har-Even in Editorial
If you’ve got your hopes set on a Palm Pre this Chrimbo then you might want to hold off on updating iTunes.
When the Pre first launch in the US, Palm reasonably made a bit of a fuss that its shiny new phone could sync music with iTunes - making it a real pull to those considering switching to Palm but who had already invested in iTunes music. (The Pre didn’t work with copy protected music but was less of an issue seeing as iTunes has ditched DRM).
This pallying up with iTunes unsurprisingly didn’t go unnoticed by Apple, and so, even less surprisingly, the latest iTunes update breaks it. Ostensibly, it’s about bug fixes, but really it’s all about Palm. To Apple’s it’s the biggest bug of all.
The message? Apple are meanies.
The fact is though that Apple was never going to sit back and let its potentially most serious competitor muscle in on its iTunes monopoly.
There are ways round it though - through third-party programs that sit between the device and iTunes, such as Salling Media Sync and The Missing Sync for Palm Pre, which has been doing the Mac, Palm Sync thing for years. The former has a free version available and apparantely the paid for version enables ‘faster sync’. The latter costs $40.
To be honest if your set on using iTunes and your non-Apple device you might as well pay-up and let some other company worry about having to deal with Apple’s ploys - it’s cash yes, but life’s too short.
And as others have also commented, this sort of shenanigans might focus some attention on Apple’s iPod/iTunes hegemony.
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