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Apple Update Means Palm Pre Can No Longer Sync With iTunes
endikos writes "Apple updated iTunes to version 8.2.1. According to the changelog, it offers bug fixes and 'addresses an issue with verification of Apple devices.' In other words, 'Buzz off, Palm Pre. You ain't no iPhone.'"
It's hardly a monopoly its a preference. Get it right idiots!
Why bother
Look it's a perk for my customers not a perk for yours. Get over it and write your own damn software.
Why bother
Apple has always envied Microsoft's virtual monopoly position.
apple has recently made a rare transition from the first to second category, and their incentives and policies have changed accordingly.
You have got to be shitting me! Apple hasn't played nice as far as open standards and interoperability since the second coming of Jobs. And they rarely did before that! This isn't recent. It's so ingrained and heavy handed I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't chiseled into the cornerstone of their corporate headquarters.
Please don't try to defend Apple in this case. They've defined lock-in to the point that Microsoft looks like the public library in comparison, especially where it concerns their non-desktop offerings.
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Fucking mac fanbois, worshipping the altar of Jobs.
Wankers.
So can you put a toyo denso alternator off a honda into your late-model ford truck? WHY THE HELL NOT!!! Down with honda and ford for breaking interoperability between their own damned products!
And for some damned reason I want to put a frigidaire icemaker into my kenmore refrigerator but I CAN'T! Fie on kenmore! Fie on frigidaire! Don't even get me started on trying to use garmin gps's on tomtom software!
The whole world is out to get me! Everyone is trying to make money! Except me, because everything I do is golden and altruistic and I'd continue to do my job even if I didn't get paid because I care that much! The Pre should be able to capitalize on itunes even though they shouldered none of the development, infrastructure, or support! Everyone should be able to use anything to do anything except make money! Oh wait the pre is printing money, I guess I don't like the pre now either.
-b
No offense, but I've stopped responding to AC's.
Cannonball, why do people like you insist on trying to change an Apple fanboy's mind by pointing to rational, logical examples?? No matter how many times you hit your head against a brick wall, it will always be your head that suffers. Arguments against those people should take the form "ooh don't look there, shiny here!!!!"
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine -- Robert C. Gallagher
Exactly. The market is too wide and the standard is open. It would be impossible for Apple to hold a conventional monopoly position. There are just too many other ways to listen to MP3. Besides that, they are nowhere NEAR the level of dickhead moves that MS pulled to build/maintain its certified monopoly. Further, MP3 players are not featured as a core function of business, so the stakes are an order of magnitude less.
Good-bye
Is this similar to the distortion field caused by techies who don't think software usability is important?
If by great looking, you mean "Ugly, cheap, flimsy white plastic, just like the eating utensils at McDonald's" then I concur.
If by great interface, you mean "I have to keep using this stupid wheel?" then I concur.
But what about the Touch interface you say? Big freaking whoop. I remember using touch screens on electronics back in the '80s that were a heck of a lot more responsive than that found on the iPod.
Oh, you need to change your battery? SORRY! You get to wait two weeks for Apple to change it for you!
A great product, it isn't.
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