So mean. I’m not even a Palm Pre user and I still think this sucks. Apple released iTunes version 8.2.1 today, and with it comes a nice little blockade preventing Pre users from syncing their music libraries. Now that’s a low blow.

The release notes include a blurb stating, “iTunes 8.2.1 provides a number of important bug fixes and addresses an issue with verification of Apple Devices.”

I suppose fair is fair… but still, this is pure evil. Dieter from precentral.net suggests Pre users check out doubleTwist for music syncing until this gets worked out, if ever.

I’ve only heard good things about the Pre, which we shall call “iPhone #2,” and although I wouldn’t give up my iPhone for anything, there are many times when I want to punch AT&T squarely in between the eyes for its lack of service.

via precentral

4 Responses to “Apple Blocks iTunes From Syncing With Palm Pre”

1. jared says:

   July 15, 2009 at 2:42 pm

   just as well i have the ipod touch – honestly Apple is racing up the Evil Corporate Entity Stakes nowadays.
   If only they weren’t so damn good at design I might be able to stop buying their products
2. Joe says:

   July 15, 2009 at 3:10 pm

   Apple is getting rabid in their attempts to control their customers.
3. Julian says:

   July 15, 2009 at 10:49 pm

   Yeah, I’m a loyal Apple customer – but they can definitely be elitists sometimes.

   **posted from an iPhone
4. Jared says:

   July 16, 2009 at 5:27 am

   I have had a think about it.
   Correct me if i’m wrong here but isn’t the apps and music etc
   on Itunes just kept in a accessible system file?
   Why can’t palm create a small program that syncs everything in the
   iTunes folders to the device? It means u could continue to use
   iTunes but you would have to manually hit a button in another
   program to sync.
   I’m not much of a techie so it is possible I am just talking crap
   >.>