Apple may not ban ‘Pre’ from syncing with iTunes
June 18th, 2009 by Annkur
Yes, Apple has a bad repute with breaking jailbreaks, bricking iPhone’s, trying to deem 3rd party apps as illegal, locking its devices and making everything from its earphones to charger pins proprietary. But they might not go after the Palm Pre, which syncs with the iTunes posing as an iPod.
Apple does not provide support for, or test for compatibility with, non-Apple digital media players and, because software changes over time, newer versions of Apple’s iTunes software may no longer provide syncing functionality with non-Apple digital media players.
While this recent note on Apple’s support site wrt 3rd party media players has sparked off rumors that Apple is miffed with the Palm Pre and is working to disable its syncing with iTunes in future versions; this might not be specifcally targeted to the Pre. Allowing the Pre to sync with iTunes doesn’t hurt Apple as much as jailbreaking the iPhone does. As engadget notes “Apple would have to actively code in a USB node check to actually block syncing”.
Palm has already stepped on Apple’s shoes with multitouch on the Pre, this was followed by strong words from Apple, but no legal exchange between Apple and Palm took place. Though Palm did issue a statement that they respect others patents. I get a feeling its just the rivalry between Palm and Apple (with the iPhone as well as former Apple employees working for Palm) that gives fuel to rumors that Apple wants to blockout the Pre from iTunes. Apple has better things to do, more revolutionary products to develop & larger interests to secure before it spends time killing competition by such tactics.
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Categories: Apple, Tech Industry News | Tags: apple vs palm, itunes, palm, palm pre itunes, pre
Hoping that Apple doesn’t prove me wrong too soon
I don’t think Apple would be so rude to Palm but chances of this happening do exist!
ok, Apple proved me wrong
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