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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.'"
You could always use DVD Jon's DoubleTwist to sync the Palm Pre.
It reads iTunes libraries (including those irritatingly hidden away on iPods/Phones) and syncs to lots of devices quite nicely.
It's not exactly full-featured enough yet to use as your main media player, but it's really useful for moving stuff between devices.
Intel were sued for illegal business practices. They used their virtual CPU monopoly to bully or 'bribe' system builders into not stocking AMD.
I'm loving how many USians are getting their panties in a twist about it though, so don't let me stop you. ;)
Maybe because apple IS a hardware company. They use software to drive hardware sales. OS X sells Macs; the iTunes Music Store sells iPods; the App Store sells iPhones. They can't very well sell their hardware if other hardware companies start circumventing the things that tie Apple's hardware to their software. The Pre pretending to be an iPhone when connecting to iTunes is similar to Psystar making PCs think they're Macs.
Until Ipod holds a 90% or larger share and they use that to illegally force people out of ANOTHER marketplace, you really dont know what you are talking about.
Um, the iPod has been hovering above and below that number for a while. Kinda Legitimate Proof.
"Educate the mind but never at the expense of the soul."~Blessed Basil Moreau
I don't think this is likely to be a concern anyway. There's a clear parallel with Nintendo's case where reproducing their logo was necessary for interoperability, and although it's never gone to court, the same applies to browser vendors' user-agent strings, including Apple's. Apple's Safari browser claims to be Mozilla in its user-agent string for interoperability purposes. It's hard to see how that differs from what Palm are doing.
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People of European descent who live or lived in what's now called the United States of America have been calling themselves Americans since long before there was a United States thereof and were widely known as such in Europe. They saw no reason to change that after they defeated what was then the most powerful military state in the world largely because:
1. They were used to referring to themselves as Americans.
2. "United Statesians" didn't exactly roll off the tongue.
Any other conjecture, theory or wild-assed guess relating to residents of the United States "appropriating" the term American is utter nonsense.
This ain't rocket surgery.
No, safari says its a mozilla compatible browser called Safari. And IE does roughly the same thing.
They don't say 'Hey, I am mozilla the browser' the say 'hey, I'm a mozilla compatible browser called: Safari version 4.0.112512, using WebKit 1.0.x' or whatever version it happens to be at the time.
The pre on the other hand says 'Hey, I'm an iPod!'
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...but nearly every other operating system software company is out of business or going that way. And when Apple allowed clones to run Mac OS, they lost market share.
Apple's business model of using software to support their own hardware sales works well for them. There's no reason for them to change.
I tend to take URLs that have a /pr/ in them with a spoonful of salt.
What's ages? It'll take a fraction of a second per file. But it is scanning the file to set a normal playback level. If you want you can switch that off, and it;l be the same speed as your other app that doesn't have that feature.
Nonsense. Of course it refreshes. Perhaps you are trying to drop a file into it's directory structure and imagine it'll notice. That's not the way it works. You drag songs directly into the app.
Ah, you must be a Windows user. It appears you're talking about an early Windows version. It now uses all the usual WIndows widgets.
You mean it displays the name of the song from the ID3 tag, rather than the name of the song. Yes, it does if the ID3 tag is there, otherwise it'll parse the filename for the song title. So YES it can cope with files that aren't yet tagged.
That's iTunes.