http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Well Apple can show good example by removing iPhone Exchange and OSX bootcamp.
Apple...you first!]]>Jun 16th 2009 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/
I hated those smarmy C64 users with the Sprite graphics... APPLE //e forever. Why did they hobble the //gs... WHY?]]>Jun 17th 2009 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/
Two words:

iTunes Store.

iTunes has enormous amounts of traction. Palm doesn't want to get into the desktop music library/store business.

Everyone already has iPods and iTunes. Palm is never going to eclipse that with a smartphone.]]>Jun 16th 2009 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/The world isn't ending tomorrow. People don't have to make their final choices right now. The game isn't over. It will never be over. Who knows, 20 years from now Palm could be as big as Microsoft and Apple could be a dying company. Things change. Just because someone has the market cornered right now doesn't mean someone else shouldn't try.

The Pre is a great start and shows that palm has some ideas and can make a decent competitive product. Maybe they could carry that same fight over to PMP's or even laptop/desktop computers.
]]>Jun 16th 2009 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Next thing you know, Palm will be trying to stick a mirror-image Apple logo on it's products just to fool people into thinking Palm products are somewhat Mac compatible.

Apple should do something simple to discourage Pre iTunes leeching like making the Pre play all the tracks in reverse or inserting voice-over on each track announcing the Pre is an unauthorized device or maybe just lopping ten seconds randomly off each track.]]>Jun 16th 2009 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/
Yeah, I'm sure that's what you meant. ]]>Jun 16th 2009 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/
If I were them I'd allow syncing but make it completely wonky, like copy 5 copies of every song over, or make volume way too loud.

It's so rude of palm to think they can use Apple's software and get away with it.]]>Jun 17th 2009 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/
Add on top of that the fact that the Pre is "unsupported" hardware, and Apple could technically wipe the Pre clean, including the Operating System, and there's nothing anyone could do about it.

Of course, that would be P.R. suicide, but it could be done.]]>Jun 16th 2009 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/
@John It can't sync DRM'd music because Palm didn't try to reverse engineer anything related to fairplay. It will just copy non DRM'd music to the Pre, so this is not a problem.]]>Jun 16th 2009 11:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/
Apple's quote suggests that although the Pre is compatible with the syncing features of iTunes, they will not help out users who can't get it to work properly, nor will they attempt to make sure things will always work properly in the future.]]>Jun 16th 2009 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 17th 2009 1:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/
That said, if the Pre behaves like an older iPod, Apple will have to keep supporting it - I don't think Apple will force users to update iPod firmware. As long as Apple doesn't break compatibility with older iPods, Pre should be safe.]]>Jun 17th 2009 3:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/
I mean, not actively supporting it is one thing, but actively blocking attempted at making compatible devices, that must be bordering illegal.]]>Jun 17th 2009 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 17th 2009 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/
havent you ever read the terms of sale and terms of service for apple products ... "not responsible for data loss" but you can try to sue if you want the army of lawyers ]]>Jun 17th 2009 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 18th 2009 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/
So Palm Pre iTunes Sync may not work later?]]>Jun 16th 2009 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/
Either way, FAIL!!!]]>Jun 16th 2009 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/
for my own contribution: apples not going to cut off those potential music sales... but they are just giving themselves lee-way if they botch something up and it no longer works. apple wants zero responsibility to support those devices and customers]]>Jun 16th 2009 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/
AS for syncing with pre, just don't update your iTunes... easy as that.]]>Jun 17th 2009 4:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/
No, iTunes syncing was a bad, bad idea on Palm's part.]]>Jun 16th 2009 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 17th 2009 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 16th 2009 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/16/apple-says-itunes-syncing-only-for-apple-devices-looks-sternly/Jun 17th 2009 3:40AM