And the back-and-forth goes on. "Here we go again. Apple has updated iTunes to version 9.0.2 and Palm Pre sync is dead again using webOS 1.2.1, despite Palm's Hurculean efforts to spoof nearly every aspect of USB identification known to mankind. As with previous breakages, iTunes does launch when you connect a Pre with Media Mode, but it doesn't appear as a device on the sidebar. Pre owners can at least take comfort in knowing that Apple's main goal here was adding support for the new AppleTV format, but breaking Pre sync support was a nice cherry for them."
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Member since:2009-03-17
Actually, no one is stopping Palm from making their own conduit connector package for iTunes. iTunes has an open plugin/connector facility, iTunes itself does not have to be opened to anyone in that way.
There are 3rd party devices that can plug in with iTunes no problem.
What Palm is trying to do IMHO, is trying to save the cost and simply piggyback their device with iTunes via forged USB IDs. Frankly, I don't just find such approach childish, but grossly unprofessional. It reeks of desperation.
Member since:2006-04-16
Frankly, I find Apple's misuse of USB IDs to prevent interoperability both childish and against the spirit of the law, which explicitly provides for reverse engineering of interfaces for interoperability purposes-- in short, reprehensible.
Apple's misuse of IDs is a kind of behavior that has been taken to court at least twice that I know of (printers; garage door openers), and it has lost both times.
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2006-01-23
Just a week or so ago, I saw an opinion piece stating numbers that Apple had barely any market share in the broader phone marker and a decent slice of the smart phone market.
Since Nokia owns so much of the smart phone market, I guess they have a monopoly. I've seen them painted as the saviours of humanity recently. (I tried their netbook the other day and it's quite nice, if expensive. It almost makes me forget how bad my Nokia phone is.)
Should Apple open up iTunes? Yes. If they can allow third parties to use iSync, they could allow third parties to use iTunes, despite its purpose of enabling a seamless experience for iPod and iPhone users.
Should Palm and others do something else? I believe that they should all dive into Songbird and make it what iTunes could have been. That could make Apple open iTunes to outsiders.