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Apple Blocks Palm Pre from Accessing iTunes

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Jul 2009 21:11 UTC

Earlier this year, it became known that the Palm Pre, engineered by a number of ex-Apple engineers, could interface with Apple's iTunes as if it was an iPod. Everybody more or less expected Apple to block the Pre from syncing with iTunes, but I don't think any of us had anticipated just how forthright Apple would be about it.

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RE: No one should have ever expected it to work anyway

by grabberslasher on Wed 15th Jul 2009 23:54 UTC in reply to "No one should have ever expected it to work anyway"

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2006-02-09

Very wrong; the Palm Pre doesn't clone any VendorID; it still shows up as made by Palm's vendor ID. Which is probably what iTunes 8.2.1 blocks

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RE[2]: No one should have ever expected it to work anyway

by Alleister on Thu 16th Jul 2009 11:49 in reply to "RE: No one should have ever expected it to work anyway"

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2006-05-29

I have read different things on that, but even if they "only" cloned an device id, it still nowhere near acceptable and still a strong violation of the USB standard.

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