Ummm..., I don’t get it... was iTunes supposed to synch with this device. I don’t have the device, so I never knew anything about it and didn’t know if it was supposed to do that in the first place. Maybe someone could give me a hint about this...
No, iTunes was never supposed to synch with this device.
Pre wanted to ride the iTunes bandwagon, so they built the Pre to _pretend_ to be an iPod if connected to iTunes - getting functionality they didn’t license (see the above USB ID comment), and virtually making Apple liable if iTunes didn’t play with the Pre the way users expected (user: “my Pre used to work with iTunes, but now it doesn’t - Apple sucks!”; Apple: “WTF?”).
Apple responded with an iTunes update that emphasized “we don’t support the Pre - PERIOD.”