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Apple Fine Print Warns That Palm Pre iTunes Syncing Could Die

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EBone
06/16/09

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I've been expecting this since Palm's rather bold assertions about Pre synching at the D conference last month.
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DJJS
06/16/09

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Apple should not

Be to much of a dick.

if I remember right, dosen't Palm own some Multi-touch Screens Patent's?

That Clearly Apple is violating?

I love my iPhone3g and ipods but I see no reason, to block the Pre's Sync!

And if problems do happen take it up with Palm not

With apple.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
06/16/09

@DJJS: You mean like some of the touch screen stuff that Palm took from Xerox and Apple's Newton? (Which was released years before Palm brought anything to the PDA market.)
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frigg
06/16/09

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Because Jon Rubenstein could probably backwards engineer an early generation iPod in his sleep, I would think it's not so easy for Apple to pull the kill switch on the Pre without eating their young.

I bet somewhere in an Apple lab engineers are feverishly dissecting a Pre to figure out how to do more than rattle a Damocles sword.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
06/16/09

@frigg: I'm guessing that they already know damn well how to disable the phone.
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deanbmmv
06/16/09

@Carradine Dies of a Stroke Film at 11: Lite: Thing is Pre (probably on purpose) stuck Apple in a sticky situation, they can stop the pre-syncing by blocking the iPod registartiaon it use,s but that potentiality locks out legit iPod users, or they block the Pre as a Pre, but then there's issue with Apple locking specific hardware out, so you get anti-trust n all that.

And the bad PR too, if Apple can get bad PR.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
06/16/09

@deanbmmv: It isn't anti-trust to lock out other vendor's hardware from using your software... Amazon has just as big of a music collection as Apple does these days, for the same price.
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92BuickLeSabre
06/16/09

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I'm actually a little unimpressed with their weak-ass response here.

At the very least the message should read:

"However, 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 erase, destroy, delete, or otherwise seriously mangle your non-Apple digital media player's software and/or firmware. Use of such devices with iTunes is done at the users own risk and is contrary to all iTunes software licensing agreements. Apple is not responsible for any resulting damage."
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Tmacfan4321
06/16/09

@92BuickLeSabre: Or you could just replaced the italicized with, "Apple's iTunes software may brick your shit. Palm, you have been warned."
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92BuickLeSabre
06/16/09

@Tmacfan4321: As someone trained in the law, sadly I could not do what you suggest.
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Tmacfan4321
06/16/09

@92BuickLeSabre: You have to play hardball sometimes.
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92BuickLeSabre
06/16/09

@Tmacfan4321: The language is just as hardball; it's just not written that way.
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jessedybka
06/16/09

@suland: But that increased iTunes revenue would come at the expense of lost Apple hardware revenue. I don't know the numbers but I would imagine that it's better to cut off the Pre-customers' potential sales than to lose out on iPod/iPhone sales.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
06/16/09

@jessedybka: The Palm Pre doesn't play iTunes DRM'd or even non-DRM'd music. So, they're using iTunes to sync your Pre but Apple sees basically NONE of the revenue involved.

Which is why that statement/post has come out from Apple. If they have no money to lose, why should they support others? And they've probably seen an increase in people trying to contact Apple for support.
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jessedybka
06/16/09

@Carradine Dies of a Stroke Film at 11: Lite: Good to know, I thought that non-DRM music was synced.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
06/16/09

@jessedybka: Nope, I'm wrong, the Pre does apparently play AAC files.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
06/16/09

@Carradine Dies of a Stroke Film at 11: Lite: Non DRM that is.
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Muhhamed Ali
06/16/09

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I understand the whole smartphone war going on right now but wouldn't it be a bad move fore Apple to kill Pre compatibility? what with people being able to sync their music and whatnot from iTunes that just allows for more iTunes Store sales and someone more avidly using their product.
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92BuickLeSabre
06/16/09

@Polzin: If I remember correctly Apple actually makes most of its money on the hardware side and very little on the iTunes side. So they actually do want to use iTunes to push people to the product not the other way around.
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