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Snow Leopard Drops Palm OS Sync

Posted by timothy on from the exclusivity-demands-it dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Stay classy by gcnaddict · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nothing like anticompetitiveness to turn me off.

    It's sad, too. I was considering getting a Pre to use with my MacBook while running Snow Leopard, but now I'll just put Windows 7 onto my MacBook instead of Snow Leopard.

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  2. Platform Politics by improfane · · Score: 1, Troll

    I'm really not happy with this interplatform bitching.

    There should be laws against this kind of thing: the recent Google Talk blocking by Apple and this is an example of trying to maintain a monoply in my opinion.

    We all have a go at Microsoft for lock-in but why does Apple get away with it?

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  3. Re:Stay classy by node+3 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is there a special place in hell for morons like you who just bash MS?

    Windows 7 is a very good operating system by all sensible accounts.

    "Better than Vista" is not a very high bar.

  4. Anti-Competitive? More like plain old Competitive by DJRumpy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Agreed. Actually I would call this competitive rather than anti-competitive. Why carry legacy support for old hardware? We don't need OS X turning into another Windows history lesson regarding legacy support. There is nothing preventing Palm from updating their software. Why is it suddenly Apples responsibility to write software that allows third party devices to sync? There is absolutely nothing preventing Palm from doing so, but even Palm has dropped support of PalmOS.

    Millions of users have to go to vendor sites for drivers on Windows to allow it recognize their hardware and to download the vendor supplied software. Why should Apple be required to provide this functionality? Especially one that even the vendor doesn't care to support any more?