whining and bawling about how mean Apple is being to them. If they want to use iTunes that badly they should just dump their Pres and get an iPhone. Palm really needs to build it's own synching app and then Palm owners wouldn't have to fret when the plug is being pulled on them.

Another 200K lost in sales for Palm doing a stupid hack to leech off iTunes for whatever stupid reason.

Palm's leadership is weak and short-sighted in taking this tact of "stealing" iTunes access while also spinning a public smear campaign on "bully" Apple. A company of Apple's magnitude and popularity is not going to be threatened in such manners.

I mean, do you really think someone is going to purposely buy a Pre because Apple is trying to prevent it from using "your" iTunes?!

I feel the Pre has some very strong features, some I'd like to see in the iPhone...perhaps. But actually holding one in your hand. as well as seeing these tactics, smacks of a desperate company cutting corners at every turn in an attempt to survive...a poor plan from the start!

It's really time for Palm to sue Apple for restraint of trade, and time for Pre users to start filing unauthorized use of a computer criminal charges on Apple.

iTunes has historically been able to support 3rd party devices, it's only recently that Apple has started blocking other devices from working.

It's criminal behavior on Apple's part - the computer is mine, the software it's running is mine, and Apple thinks it's ok to break it? Um, no.

I'm not ok with Apple's behavior here - and I don't own a Pre, I have an iPhone.

@DarkVader
For anyone complaining about software changing to allow or disallow functionality and the perception that it is criminal, get a clue. First, you are licensing the right to use the software, you do not own the software so Apple is not breaking your property. Second, by the logic you provide would it then be criminal when new versions of software stop supporting old versions of computers and OSs? I 'own' iPhoto, but the latest version does not support my computer/OS, should I sue? Are you suggesting that Apple is sneaking onto people's computers and modifying code so that installed versions of iTunes that currently work with the Pre are being broken or do you just think that it is not fair that the new, separate version of iTunes excludes the Pre?

Or am I just oblivious to sarcasm?

Another 200K lost in sales for Palm doing a stupid hack to leech off iTunes for whatever stupid reason.

How is this causing 200K in lost sales?

Are you saying that Palm would have gotten the sales because of the iTunes hack, but now that it is broken again, the sales will go away? That would indicate that 'leeching' off of iTunes improved their sales, not diminished them, and thus they'd be going back to where they should have been if they made their own solution.

Unless you think people are buying a Pre only because it syncs with iTunes. At which point, it also would indicate that it was a smart move to try to use itunes.

I think palm is trying to get this into court. If people can use the software mentioned in the post to sync, then why do they need to worry about iTunes directly supporting pre syncing?