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Apple Does As Many Expected: Kills Palm Pre iTunes Syncing
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| The pettiness of Apple continues... Last month, Apple warned potential buyers
| of the Palm Pre that it might break that phone's ability to sync with iTunes.
| It didn't take long for Apple to follow through. In an upgrade to iTunes,
| which Apple claims was for "bug fix" but also to handle "verification"
| issues, it has blocked the Palm Pre from accessing iTunes.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090715/1401055554.shtml
The Business Of Free
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| One of the things that was touched upon was the recent release of the Palm
| Pre smartphone which relies on Apple's iTunes software for synchronising
| music with a computer. An interesting question asked was what would happen if
| Apple decided to block the Pre from using iTunes. Now, just over a week
| later, this is exactly what happened. Apple has indeed blocked the Pre from
| using iTunes with its latest update.
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| Unfortunately, this is just business as usual in the world of proprietary
| software. In the end, Palm will surely find a way around this, but in the
| meantime, the users are being held hostage. Adding insult to injury, many
| Palm Pre owners have likely been purchasing music from iTunes to put on their
| new smartphones, thus becoming Apple customers as well, so in the end this
| move hurts Apple's music sales too.
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http://www.kdenews.org/2009/07/16/business-free
Recent:
iPhone suffers as Android buoys Linux cause
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| Google's open mobile OS platform Android is buoying the fortunes of
| Linux-powered smartphones. The news for Apple's iPhone, however, is not so
| good.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-278279.html
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