Star Apple Blocks Palm Pre from Accessing iTunes
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Jul 2009 21:11 UTC
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless 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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No iTunes is good ... iTunes
by HappyGod on Thu 16th Jul 2009 01:05 UTC
HappyGod
Member since:
2005-10-19

That's absolutely fine with me. I own a iPhone, and I dislike only two things about it:

1. I have to use iTunes. Probably the slowest, most intrusive MP3 player since some early versions of Windows Media Player.

2. It totally locks out it's internal storage. Why? It's my phone ... or is it?

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RE: No iTunes is good ... iTunes
by stanbr on Thu 16th Jul 2009 13:47 in reply to "No iTunes is good ... iTunes"
stanbr Member since:
2009-05-22

you dont have to use itunes to use your ipod. I *guess* this softwares also works with iphone:

http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/07/08/10-alternatives-to-itunes-for-...

Anyway, apple sucks :-)

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stabbyjones Member since:
2008-04-15

you dont have to use itunes to use your ipod. I *guess* this softwares also works with iphone:

http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/07/08/10-alternatives-to-itunes-for-...

Anyway, apple sucks :-)


iphone/ipod touch are different from older ipods for the specific reason that apple wanted to block these programs from controlling them.

try an iphone with any of those and see how far you get. i jailbreaked my GF's iphone and so far the only thing of value it did was let her use a locked AT&T phone with optus in Australia.

http://code.google.com/p/iphonebrowser/
this may work but i haven't got a windows pc to try it on at the mo. as to whether it puts music in there in a playable (to the ipod database) form i can't say.

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