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Has Palm finally given up on the great cat/mouse/iTunes chase of ‘09?
Erictric Blog ^ | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | Erictric Blog Staff

Posted on 11/19/2009 2:15:46 PM PST by Star Traveler

Has Palm finally given up on the great cat/mouse/iTunes chase of ‘09?

November 17th, 2009 Posted in Technology

The number of times Apple and Palm went back and forth trading clever coding tactics was beginning to wear thin. At first I found myself saying “yay for the little guy”. But after Apple made it very clear from the get go that they weren’t feeling the cross platform love, Palm decided to kick it up a notch. And so began the cat and mouse game that went on for weeks.

The latest Palm OS update, 1.3.1, that was released recently failed to add back in that coveted and high talking point — iTunes sync. With that said, the obvious question arises: Has Palm finally given up?

With heat from the USB-IF causing Palm to initially back down, many thought Palm would turn away. But once again they defied common logic. As already stated, the latest 1.3.1 update killed the Pre and Pixie’s chances for any iTunes love. On the surface it seems as if easy music syncing for Palm devices is dead. But there’s an extremely obvious solution. A solution that’s been available and wide open since the beginning — Palm can just create their own media sync app.

*Gasp* Create their own? Why not? RIM created their own app that handled iTunes playlists. If RIM can do it then Palm should certainly be able to. You see, Apple doesn’t like other devices syncing with iTunes. Ok, fair enough. What they don’t care about however is other devices syncing with iTunes playlists — a simple yet huge difference that Palm has failed to grasp thus far.

In situations like these we’ll always have the one group fighting for Palm’s right to mask their devices and trick software into thinking it’s a different device. On the other side, we’ll have groups opposed to any “cross talk” between competing platforms, software, and hardware for any reasons. Thankfully the current state of affairs has Apple at least allowing those coveted iTunes playlists we so painstakingly created up for grabs. It isn’t as seamless as full on iTunes support but it’s better than nothing. Palm, take note: get over this funk you’re in and build your own software already.

Besides, Palm has much bigger fish to worry about then constantly fighting what is a lost cause with Apple. Don’t you think?


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: apple; bloggersandpersonal; ipod; itunes; palm
Yep, this is the part that many of these "complainers" about Apple have missed... LOL...

*Gasp* Create their own? Why not? RIM created their own app that handled iTunes playlists. If RIM can do it then Palm should certainly be able to. You see, Apple doesn’t like other devices syncing with iTunes. Ok, fair enough. What they don’t care about however is other devices syncing with iTunes playlists — a simple yet huge difference that Palm has failed to grasp thus far.

1 posted on 11/19/2009 2:15:47 PM PST by Star Traveler
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To: Swordmaker

Maybe Palm has finally decided to do some of their own programming work! LOL...


2 posted on 11/19/2009 2:16:41 PM PST by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: Star Traveler

I don’t know why they didn’t create their own program to begin with. Synching with iTunes is a nice feature, but long term, the solution is to create a program that does what iTunes does, without the pain in the ass file naming and hiding system that iTunes does so it can lock in its users.


3 posted on 11/19/2009 2:21:00 PM PST by Defiant (The absence of bias appears to be bias to those who are biased.)
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To: Star Traveler

Best yet, write it in python/ruby, release the source, and make it run on everything.


4 posted on 11/19/2009 2:39:36 PM PST by ROTB ("By any means necessary" is evil. See what God thinks of "rising oceans" in Jeremiah 5:22)
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To: Defiant

If you don’t check the “Let iTunes organize my files” checkbox when you install iTunes, guess what?

It doesn’t rename or hide the files.

You have only yourself to blame for checking that box.


5 posted on 11/19/2009 2:53:48 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

I keep it checked. I found out that iTunes organizes the files pretty well in a directory tree. I can find anything pretty quick when I need to get to a song without iTunes.


6 posted on 11/19/2009 3:12:04 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Spktyr

I don’t check the box. Most people don’t understand what you do.


7 posted on 11/19/2009 6:46:59 PM PST by Defiant (The absence of bias appears to be bias to those who are biased.)
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