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Palm Pre To Sync Seamlessly With iTunes

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the middle-finger-included dept.

Wired is reporting that Palm's new handheld device, the Pre, will be able to sync automagically with Apple's iTunes. Thanks to a team of ex-Apple engineers the Pre will sync everything but iPhone applications and some of the older Fairplay DRM music. "It does it by faking out iTunes, making the jukebox software think that it is connected to a real iPod. Hook it up and you'll be given three options: USB mass storage device, charging only or iTunes sync. This is a ballsy move from Palm, and we totally love it: a big fat middle finger at Apple. Apple will, we are sure, be readying its legal attack dogs as I write, and don't be at all surprised if an iTunes update pops up around June 6th. This fight just got a lot more interesting."

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  1. Palm? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They still exist?

    1. Re:Palm? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      really? is your head so far up your ass that you never saw a Treo or a Centro?

  2. Re:Sue Those Monopolistic Apple Bastards! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    There is a reason that Apple's products are known to be virtually 100% secure. They don't let third parties with possibly different standards of quality control be able to screw things up.

    I'm looking forward to the iTunes update myself to lock out this crap. I wonder if it could be considered stealing by other companies trying to commandeer Apple's painstaking hard work in making the absolute best music management utility on their product without any payment back.

    Anyone willing to take bets on when the DMCA takedown notices come out?