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Palm Ignores USB-IF Warning, Restores iTunes Sync
An anonymous reader writes "Palm's cat and mouse game with Apple continues. Ignoring the warning from the USB Implementers Forum, with its WebOS 1.2.1 release this morning Palm has restored iTunes media synchronization in its new Pre smartphone — and gone so far as to extend sync to photos. And, according to Digital Daily, it has done this, once again, by using Apple's USB vendor ID. Does the USB-IF have any recourse here? Does Apple?"
So where is Apple lacking competition in this space exactly ?
Yeah, but how many of those dozens of devices are overpriced shiny toys with fewer features?
More seriously, just because dozens of other options exist doesn't mean Apple doesn't have a monopoly. This article from two days ago cites Apple's iPod as having 75% of the MP3 player market share, and I've seen similar figures in plenty of other articles.
"Anyone who [rips a CD] is probably engaging in copyright infringement." - David O. Carson
They don't have to. They just do it because it saves them from having to write their own sync code.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
Apple will sell music to anyone, in a standard non DRM format too.
Only if they run Apple software.
The same software that is a portal for their dominant market position also has syncing capabilities, but will only sync with iPod's.
A lot of people are missing this key point. iTunes is the portal to these music sales, and apple is preventing interop with that portal so that another of their products enjoys a unique advantageous position.
"His name was James Damore."
Apple does not fucking offer interoperability. Quit spreading this LIE.
No, its not a horrible analogy. It very very accurate.
You object to the word borrowed. I'll substitute the word "Stolen".
Apple took a publicly funded OS and took it private. They also took cups, Webkit, IP, and about a dozens other opensource projects and build OSX on the cheap.
To this day, they give virtually nothing back to the community.
For many years, until threatened with a lawsuit, they refused to give anything at all back to the opensource community. Finally when it looked like they would clearly lose in court, and found that they needed to steal even more software to OSX economically viable, they started to contribute back only the minimal patches to things like webkit.
They support no opensource projects monetarily or with paid staff.
They have contributed no significant code base to the community. Even AppleTalk was totally reverse engineered before Apple condescended to provide source to a largely obsolete technology.
They lock everything down with restrictive patents, and have a kennel of Rottweiler Lawyers that they keep very active.
Apple is not a good community member, and never has been.
They take, but give back only the minimal that they have to.
For you to wander in here and say in effect "Apple found BSD laying on they street - It was free for the taking" is at least an honest portrayal of Apple's practices.
My point in the GP post above was that fanboys should not point fingers and scream "Free Ride" when their God of Gods did exactly the same thing.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
Well most Apple users are communications majors, reporters, or video technicians. They really don't understand how computers work - they just use them.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
You deserve to die, painfully, for your sheer, unmitigated stupidity.
First of all, the USB IF is not enforcing anything. They are, however, upset with Palm for LYING. I hope you fucking die because someone lies to you about something important. You are an unethical piece of shit and don't deserve to exist.