Pre Syncs with iTunes Quite Nicely
Rumor: Another interesting, new Pre factoid is making its way round the 'sphere this morning. Fortune's Apple blog is reporting that the Palm Pre will sync with Apple's iTunes software quite effortlessly out of the box. The post claims the Pre will behave just like a standard iPod or iPhone. Of course, Palm OS devices have been able to do this for years with third party apps such as PocketTunes, however the Pre seems to have this nice bit of functionality baked in.
Plug a Pre into a Mac and it syncs, seamlessly, with Apple's (AAPL) iTunes. In fact, the iTunes Store treats the Pre just as it would an iPod or an iPhone with one exception: it can't handle old copy-protected songs.
This development does address a number of the multimedia synchronization concerns many users have had, but it also raises the possibility for legal trouble as Apple has not responded well to intrusions into its iTunes ecosystem by competitors.
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unfortunately, that sounds like just a/v media
RE: unfortunately, that sounds like just a/v media
Stupid move by Palm, letting the world know that iTunes is the way to go and providing a product that pretty much fails to work properly with iTunes.
Probably about 95% of everyones iTunes library is copy protected, do they think by calling those tunes "old" copy-protected they won't have a lot of upset customers when they find out there music won't work on the Pre?
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RE: unfortunately, that sounds like just a/v media
Many people, like me, imported their CD collection into iTunes because it was a better option than Windows Media Player. I've yet to buy a track from Apple. None of my music has DRM (and none of the CDs had rootkits, thank goodness).
At the same time, Palm is sure gunning for a fight with Apple, hiring away staff, then hijacking their software. It'll be interesting to watch.
RE: unfortunately, that sounds like just a/v media
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RE: unfortunately, that sounds like just a/v media
Typical for Palm, though--when they aren't being arrogant ("who needs wi-fi or more than 32MB RAM?"), they become lazy ("Let's just roll over and admit that iTunes is the de facto music store/ sync option / media manger on Windows machines nowadays even though our support of it is half-assed at best"
iTunes is one of the most sluggish, bloated, and unoptimized pieces of Windows software I have ever used. It's better than it was, but it still a long way to go to match and sleek simplicity of, say, DBPowerAmp or WinAmp. I can think of any number of superior media players & CD players (yes, including Microsoft's WMP 11) over iTunes. Much like Internet Explorer a few years ago, It's amazing how iTunes has climped to the top of the pile by being so sucky and being the default app of the unwashed, unknowing, uncaring masses.
Give me actual physical CDs + USB mass storage compliance and I'll do my own ripping, encoding, organizing & synchronization, thank you very much. I don't need a gazillion popups telling me who's hot this week on the teenybopper charts. Besides, I'm a stodgy completionist who likes having liner notes and having a physical product "just in case". That said, I buy 90% of my PC games via Steam and consider it the paradigm of ESD aside from a few hideous instances where Valve let EA, Take Two, and Ubi unleash some DRM nastiness to ruin the experience.
Back on-topic: as rmhurdman stated above, it's interesting to watch the legal posturing between Palm & Apple on one hand, while on the other hand, the "new" Palm so blatantly apples Apple hardware & UI design and "officially" supports iTunes. It also makes you wonder (and giggle) if there still isn't some top secret hanky panky going on between Ruby and his former employer.
Pilot 1000->Pilot 5000->PalmPilot Pro->IIIe->Vx->m505->T|T->T|T2->T|C->T|T3->T|T5->Zodiac 2->TX->Verizon Treo 700P->Verizon Treo 755p->?
RE: unfortunately, that sounds like just a/v media
My feeling is a lot different concerning iTunes, it was a slow pain in the ass on windows but great on the Mac. I've bought a few tunes but what I really like about it is the tons of free educational podcasts (and the fact that they are selling my apps ;) and how easy everything syncs, wired or wifi.
It looks more and more to me like the hanky panky could be orchestrated by Apple ;-)
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RE: unfortunately, that sounds like just a/v media
If the latter, apple could very well kill pre syncing with itunes.
RE: unfortunately, that sounds like just a/v media
I can see why they went with this strategy, although I hate it. I'd much rather have seen Palm come out with their own media syncing software than piggyback on such a pile of rubbish as iTunes.
Oh well. USB drag 'n drop will work just fine. Most other desktop players recognize USB drives as mp3 players anyway, so it's not like we're being forced to use iTunes.
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iTunes Sync Confirmation
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/itunes-support-confirmed-for-palm-pre/