So, you thought this whole tug of war over iTunes synchronisation was over, right? The USB Implementers Forum slapped Palm in the face, and exonerated Apple from any wrongdoing. The thing is though, the USB-IF is pretty much a powerless organisation, so Palm tossed them aside, and fixed webOS iTunes sync in webOS 1.2.1.
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Member since:2008-07-15
Oh, sure... until it stops working again with either the next iTunes update or the next WebOS update and people begin to wonder just why the Pre's iTunes sync is unreliable. This isn't good for Palm's customers omatter how you slice it, it's as bad an image for Palm as it is for Apple.
Member since:2005-07-06
Ahhh it's nice to see that the reality distortion field not only applies to steve. The fact is that your wife's itunes sync will break at almost every itunes update and you will have palm to thank for that. Fair enuf if you find this acceptable as a customer, but me, i would be pretty pissed seeing how apple has provided third party vendors with a perfectly good way to sync without breaking at every update to itunes. And as a bonus, palm can do it without giving a big f--k you to the USB-IF. But hey, what would i know, im just a apple fan boy.
Member since:2006-06-09
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2007-09-06
That's a really nice shirt and I want one of my own to wear. I don't care that it was produced by underpaid pre-pubescent philipino boys toiling in unhuman work conditions. I want my really nice shirt.
Or, in other words, how a product is produced and made to do what it does can be very important, even if it's only the technology geeks (or human rights geeks in the example) that take any notice.
Your wife is, of course, not wrong for not caring how the magic was done by Palm. However, the majority of consumers not caring how the magic is done has lead to the restrictive vendor driven technology market we have now. We now accept synthetic limitations imposed on technology purely for business benefiting reasons not consumer benefiting reasons.
Edited 2009-10-05 15:37 UTC
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2005-10-11
My wife just bought a pre she tried to get her songs out of itunes i didnt work. Then she got the over the air update of 1.2.1 and it worked! She was happy she didnt give a crap how palm did it she only cared that they made it work. The ONLY people that are going to cry about this implementation are apple fan boys and a smattering of other geeks. Everyone else will just say wow palm is great they made my itunes sync work.