Comments on: Palm Pre Update Fixes iTunes Sync Again — webOS 1.2.1 Arrives

By: M

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:31:23 +0000

In all fairness, there is an option to use a USB mode. But the iTunes/etc sync option is nice. I’d rather have it there some of the time, than not at all. Plus, I don’t necessarily need to update my iTunes version right away just because Apple tells me I can.

Just sayin…

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:32:30 +0000

I updated my Pre this morning and now it won’t do anything. It just shows a black screen with Palm on it. I’ve tried turning it off, but that doesn’t do anything. None of the buttons work. I’ve also tried removing the battery, but that doesn’t do anything either. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

By: jeremiah

jeremiah — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:08:24 +0000

why does everyone forget how this started? Palm was not spoofing apples vendor I’d: APPLE blocked palms! They could have sent notice or ignored it, but they didn’t. They started it.
why should I have to install more software to run my pre? that’s what palms whole idea was, and it worked and apple didn’t have to support it at all and everyone would have been happy.
Lets face this fact: if you have any drm itunes purchases (music or video) you can never ever get rid of itunes so we are in fact stuck with it now. Palm knows this and doesn’t want to compete in that space. What apple is doing is purely anti consumer.
I’m a mac user and I think my next computer may no longer be, apple is repeating the early 90s all over again.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:11:57 +0000

http://hunter.pairsite.com/blogs/20091004/

The best analysis I’ve seen on this issue. Palm is a joke. The iTunes library file is open XML – if they had a clue they could write their own sync software, but apparently they just want to leech off the work of others. I have no respect for Palm – their stance is a joke.

By: shut up

shut up — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:25:40 +0000

mac is wack. Isn’t that why you bought the pre in the first place?

By: Se7en

Se7en — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:41:25 +0000

“If Best Buy sold CDs that only worked in CD players sold at their store, there would be outrage, and rightfully so.”

That is just a terrible analogy. Microsoft, sells software that only works in machines sold by Microsoft (Xbox360). Sony sells software that only works in machines sold by Sony (PS3) ..you get the picture, right? Microsoft sells the Zune, and won’t even allow Mac or Linux users any access to it at all.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:14:03 +0000

Except Palm isn’t laying off people.

By: kirasaw

kirasaw — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:11:50 +0000

I agree that this is immature and shows Palm to be some what second rate since there are approved ways to sync with iTunes but they do require actual code work and maybe Palm simply isn’t up to it.

But I also feel Apple should stop breaking the sync. IMHO if it is ok for Palm to spoof Apple’s ID to enter iTunes then it should be ok for Apple to find a way to know it is being spoofed and send ads to these devises promoting the iPhone and iPod. So when a Palm syncs to iTunes the first thing they would get is an iPhone ad and every so often they would get another ad and before the sync could end they should get another ad.

All fair in love and marketing :P

By: naz

naz — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:07:56 +0000

i just updated my pre and itunes said it detected a corrupt ipod… and is not syncing anything.. any suggestions?

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:15:45 +0000

Palm is not in the right.

iTunes has a supported API for syncing. Palm chooses to ignore this just to get press.

Maybe instead of laying off people, Palm should put some of these devs to work on making their own sync client.