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Snow Leopard Drops Palm OS Sync
adeelarshad82 writes "It's been just a little over a month since Apple blocked iTunes sync with Palm Pre, and now Apple takes that strategy one step further by blocking Snow Leopard sync with Palm-OS powered smartphones. Even though Palm has officially retired Palm OS and is now focusing hard on its next-generation WebOS in the Palm Pre, the company is still selling Palm OS-powered smartphones; two current models are the Treo Pro on Sprint and the Centro."
Its a gift from Apple, so you don't have to use 2 horrible products at once!
to punish all of a company's users for the "crime" of making it possible for its customers to buy Apple's digital music products.
Luckily, as a Linux user, I need not worry about it, jpilot or kpilot are plug-and-play on Palm OS products.
I just lost my own Palm PDA after years of satisfactory performance. Since I mainly use it for e-books and mp3s, I was considering buying an iPod Touch to replace it for these purposes.
I think I'll look up a discounted price on another Palm PDA instead.
For Palm users who made the mistake of buying Apple, here's a tutorial on installing Linux apps on OSX.
As for digital tracks themselves, I recommend buying them from a company that has not reinvented itself as a "cooler" version of Microsoft.
Tech Public Policy stuff
As it happens I have been running Win7 since shortly after RC1 came out, and I stand by my opinion that it is an abomination.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
There is a special hell for people that use MS, it's called Windows ;-)
We don't believe in radical loony monotheistic religions from the middle east -- we're Christians.