iTunes support confirmed for Palm Pre
By Darren Murph 
posted May 28th 2009 3:11PM
posted May 28th 2009 3:11PM
Update: So, Palm has issued an official press release detailing the new webOS features shown today at All Things Digital. The so-called media sync feature is straight up designed to "synchronize seamlessly with iTunes," giving users the ability to use Apple's media management software for transferring all non-DRM media. Furthermore, the Pre is engineered to act as a "mass storage drive," letting users side-load content on the fly. The full release also details the App Catalog and Twitter in Universal Search.
Apple is gunna be Rotten about this (pun)
Rotten about more iTunes revenue in their pocket? I'm not so sure...
What Revenue. Apple hardly makes any profit from itunes music sales as the studios and artists have the bigger cut. Then they have to support those huge servers which cost a lot of money. The only reason Apple is pushing iTunes,AppStore is to sell more hardware. It`s like sony/microsoft selling their game consoles cheaply in order to make profits on the games. Only it`s the other way round for apple as they sell media cheaply to make (huge) profits on their hardware.
skv- Your reply is kinda like when people bullshit about shit they don't know half a fuck about. Cheers
Wait a minute. I thought a vast majority of people *hate* iTunes? This makes no sense to me.
Yup, til Apple releases the next "fix" for iTunes...
Oh, and first...
Shouldn't be too long, they will probably release it right before the Pre gets released.
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Hmm... Evens out.
Guess what? One less thing that Paul and other haters have to ask about. It will sync to iTunes! Ha!
This rocks.
Oh they will come up with something new to get low-ranked over.
Just give them a moment to pick themselves off the floor.
You bunch of idiots. If Palm is doing this officially is because they are doing legally. Morons!!
@Mike: I guess Paul A. Chapel is the new iEye...
if anything, this is an admition that they have no client software or resources to make any
Do you chowderheads really, truly believe that Palm could get away with officially announcing iTunes support for the Pre without Apple's cooperation?
Seriously? I swear, some of you Apple hating sock puppets are just dumb beyond belief.
@Zak
Hey dumbass. The only one's upset over this are your fellow Apple "chowderheads" who are Pre "haters".
@Zak
Let me see if I can get this straight. You complain that the Pre won't sync to iTunes. Then they come out and say that it will. Then you get angry because they might (I say might because we have no idea how they did it) not have gotten permission from the mothership. Honestly. The only people unhappy here are people like you who defend Apple ceaselessly.
It's not done 'til the Pre won't run.
@ETM2K7
Just because Palm legally made it work, doesn't mean that Apple can't legally make it stop working.
And don't call people idiots, when you're not that smart yourself.
Imagine if Apple announces that the Palm Pre is actually their iPhone-like CDMA phone for Sprint and Verizon...
O_O
And why the hell shouldnt they? Its their software palm can create their own fricken software.
its just like Microsoft office on a Mac.
If Apple is going to profit from selling songs to the Pre, then wtf
is the problem with this?
I really don't get all the mac fans out there... in the end its just
business LOL
@Look_Around_You
I'm sorry but I'm with Zak on this one - I've yet to see a comment from any Apple "chowderheads" who are upset about this news. Seriously, why would we? Our choice of devices just expanded and we don't have to change the platform or software that we use and love. For some odd reason there seems to be an impression that non-Apple devices syncing with iTunes (hey, why stop there, even connecting to a Mac) think that this is bad and that's simply not true.
Still, what you think doesn't really matter so feel free to continue writing nonsense.
I imagine an update will probably fix that. Will other mass storage devices show up? I've never tried. I'm sure apple can get ahold of one and find out what is specific to the pre and disable it. and still allow other mass storage devices to connect.
But then again palm might be paying under the table to do this. If so then I guess they don't see that as infringing on their IP. Kinda like the MS Office comment. iTunes syncing is one thing that drew me to the iphone. I still won't give it up for sprint though.
Law suits? Patent crying? IP infractions?
BRING ON THE PAIN!
Yeah. Apple won't allow this.
If they let them get away with this then pretty much everyone is going to follow RIM, nokia, lg, samsung, htc...
Besides Apple can do with their software whatever they want. If you don't like it, use winamp or any other alternative.
So much trouble this year.. not good for Steve Jobs's healt...
Apple can certainly try bringing Palm to court, but Palm has a pretty impressive portfolio of IP itself, and Apple will probably be in for a massive countersuit which could invalidate some of Apple's existing patents.
My money is on Apple patching iTunes to detect something in the Pre firmware or software, and denying access. Not that they SHOULD do this, but they probably will.
@eriden
Yeah, but then palm will find a way to do it again, kinda like the jailbrake community.
It's not like itunes is updated every month.
I don't see why apple wouldn't like this, surely it would just encourouge people to use the Itunes store, making them more money.
At this point, I don't think Apple can "block out" Palm. If they make changes to iTunes specifically to block Palm, I can see Anit-Trust lawsuits in Apple's future...
How can Jobs not shed a tear after hearing this..
Need a screenshot of the Device screen to see if it has all the tabs to sync content like iPods.
"It shows up in iTunes just like a regular device."
Yeah, and Palm will soon be showing up in court, just like a regular defendant.
So when do they take RIM to court? Dumbass.
apple and rim worked together for blackberries to play nice with itunes. here the palm just kinda got it to work on there own. ur a dumbass sam.
The Blackberrys don't use iTunes they use a different application to copy the iTunes music folder onto the phone. The Pre is using iTunes and that Apple CAN take them to court for.
Let them take then to court.
Great PR for Palm. Apple looks like a bully control freak.
Hopefully Apple's sue-happy fanboys egg them on.
regular device !!! ???
And still, after all these years....still no "drag and drop" = tardness
regular device ??? = hardly
pre was confirmed to have drag n drop quite a while back itunes is just a bonus for those that like to use it.
Yay, only 2+ years behind Nokia started providing Mac support via iTunes.
There wasn't a Pre two years ago.
Wow...
I think the point is "so what?"
Nokia phone shave been able to sync with iTunes for years. Why would the Pre be different?
Funny, Its sync icon is an iPod.
I think that is the point, iTunes thinks the Pre is an iPod, not just another portable device.
I predict a lot of updates to itunes to break this...
This kind of stuff really bothers me about Apple and is the reason why I've started buying music form Amazon. On one of the itunes update, apple went through literally every song I bought from them and changed each song so they would no longer play on my centro. That and the $600 they offered to allow me to pay to change all of my DRM songs to DRM free was the end of the relationship between me and apple.
Didn't see that coming.
It says non-DRM music... does that mean purchased songs in the iTunes Plus format? Or only songs you ripped yourself?
iTunes Plus and the ones you ripped.
As long as the Pre supports AAC (which I'm guessing it will) it should have no problems playing iTunes Plus songs, which are DRM-free AAC files.