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Palm Pre "iTunes Hack" Detailed By DVD Jon

Posted by timothy on from the role-playing-game dept.

CNETNate writes "As the reviews of the Palm Pre start to roll in, DVD Jon expands on previous coverage of the Pre showing up in iTunes as some sort of an iPod, by publishing the offending code Palm has used to enabled the feature. As suspected, in regular USB mode, the phone addresses itself as a standard peripheral. But in 'Media Sync' mode, it claims to be an iPod ... from a vendor known as Apple."

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  1. Re:Poor Open Source by ohcrapitssteve · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've never seen the rules one should follow when releasing a device that might end up in millions of hands, but I'm sure they include the following:

    1) Don't use an unstable hack to enable a feature that a very large percentage of potential users will be counting on.
    2) Don't base a feature on a cat-and-mouse game. Especially with the likes of Apple, who are really good at that particular game.
    3) Don't meddle in the affairs of a patent dragon, for thou art tasty and good with ketchup. Jobs was bragging about patents in the iPhone announcement keynote, for Christ sake.

  2. I would like to know just one thing by mrwolf007 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How is this any different than Opera/Firefox/whatever changing the User-Agent string?
    Neither looks like anything complicated nor like anything illegal.