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    frigg: I don't think Apple cares about syncing per se as much as crushing Palm by making it look small and the Pre unattractive by tossing it around like a m... more »
    MDIFILM: how is this different from iphone vs dev team? #palmpreitunes more »
    Thangka: The irony for me is that one of the primary reasons I got the Pre over the iPhone was specifically that I don't, won't use iTunes. #palmpreitunes more »
    nutbastard: If i were apple i'd allow it, and every time the user plugs in a pre they have to sit through an iPhone ad and perhaps get a special deal offer on one... more »
    nutbastard: ... So don't update your iTunes, people. I mean, the same could be said about the jailbreakers and Apple's incessant patching, which keeps me stuck on... more »
    Nick: i disagree, john. i see it as Palm maintaining a service Pre users expected when they purchased their phones. that it would sync with iTunes. as a ... more »
    shane.m.mcfarland001: Why in the heck would I want to sync my Pre with one of the poorest-designed music management software platforms ever made (hey, it's still better tha... more »
    bagellord: I still fail to see how allowing other companies to use iTunes to sync their devices undermines Apple's iPod market. When I look at a phone or MP3 pla... more »
    Eugenia: I said it a hundred times and I will have to say it again until the Palm people who read this article puts it in their heads: Palm has no business to... more »
    otko: What's with the John Herrman Palm bashing today? Did your Pre give you an indian burn or something? more »
    stryder100: Far as I'm concerned, the reason you'd get something other than an iPhone is to get RID of iTunes. iThink. Oh, yeah, and because the Droid might be ... more »
    Bandit: Palm should just write some software. Could you imagine if the Sony Clie was designed to sync with Palm Desktop. Palm would have been annoyed (even ... more »
    TheOriginalEd: honestly, for #4, when I was younger I used to fall asleep with my head on my dogs stomach. the motion of her breathing always put me to sleep, she wa... more »
    Lukasz Fabis: Those illuminated Goodyear tires are pretty cool, in my opinion. Imagine what they could do for bicycle safety if the idea would be modernized and sca... more »
    Kaiser-Machead: The inventor of the curve-barrel gun probably saw that episode of Loony Toons when Elmer Fudd pointed his double-barrel shotgun into Bugs' hole, and ... more »
    Striderhayasa - Can we get some damn m/kb support?!: @ John I agree 100% and for the life of me I couldn't understand why Google just didn't talk to him directly and come to the current solution as oppos... more »
    fdisk: Personally, I don't see the point of owning an Android device over other smartphones anymore. I was to the point where I was loading a new ROM almost... more »
    otko: Makes me curious how Microsoft feels about the XDA community. Their wonderful rom cooking has made winmo look better since..well a very long time now. more »
    Brandon Schilling: Microsoft hasn't even issued cease and desist orders to the people cooking hacked roms of it's OS and the whole OS is proprietary, not just the apps! ... more »
    chefgon: The reason why Google has to act on this while Microsoft is free to ignore WinMo hackers is because what Cyanogen is doing is an otherwise legal and e... more »
  • #merrychristmas

    Presenting The Gawker Internet Yule Log™

    From 1966-1989, New York's WPIX broadcast footage of a Yule log burning in a fireplace each Christmas day. Today, a bunch of channels do the same. Now, Gawker is taking the Yule log into the Internet Age. Behold!
  • #itunes

    Apple and Palm: The iTunes Syncing Fight Is Officially Dumb

    OK Palm, it was cute the first time you cracked iTunes to sync with the Pre. And Apple, I guess I can understand why you'd want to keep control over your software. But really guys? Still? You look silly. More »
  • #wrongmodo

    Ten Really Dumb Old Inventions and Their Really Dumb Modern Counterparts

    Hookay. So, you think that this M3 sub-machine gun—with a shoot-first-and-ask-later curved barrel—is a really stupid, really dumb invention, right? I don't blame you. But, trust me, you don't know what really stupid, really dumb inventions are. Yet. More »
  • #android

    Cyanogen Custom Android Builds Will Live On, Sans Google Apps

    When Google started hurling lawyerisms at the maker of the souped-up, stripped-down Cyanogen custom Android ROMs, the outlook was pretty grim. Luckily for Android hackers, Cyanogen and Google have reached an agreeable, albeit still stupid, compromise. More »
  • #tv

    AT&T Accused of Swinging the Least Important Election In the World

    Unrest is brewing among fans of "American Idol" after reports of possible election tampering. Here's how it went down, allegedly: a few AT&T employees supplied phones and vote-bombing guidance at texting parties organized in support of eventual winner Kris Allen. More »
  • #duh

    Genius Locks Herself Inside Car, Calls 911 To Save Her

    Okay, I understand that people can panic and lose focus, but damn. Gotta feel bad for her though. More »