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USB-IF Slaps Palm In iTunes Spat

Posted by kdawson on from the gimme-some-skin dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The USB Implementers Forum has finally responded to Palm's complaints that Apple is violating its USB-IF Membership Agreement by preventing the Pre from syncing with iTunes. It's found in favor of Apple. Worse, it's accused Palm itself of violating the Membership Agreement by using Apple's Vendor ID number to disguise the Pre as an Apple device."

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  1. Re:apple - the most anti-open company by commodore64_love · · Score: 0, Redundant

    >>>because they went beyond their USB manufacturer agreement, they don't have a case in court.

    I disagree. If I were a judge I would dismiss the Palm disguising itself as an iPod as a reasonable engineering solution caused by an UNreasonable company using monopolistic and anti-competitive behavior. This is what the judges did during the Paypal trial (circa 2003), saying that certain actions performed by customers to recover their money were reasonable, given that paypal had effectively stolen their money. He then ordered Paypal to refund all the cash.

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