In what is being called “kind of a dick move” by the guy who lives in the dorm room next to me, Apple Inc. has blocked music synchronization of its iTunes platform with the Palm Pre. Since its release in June, many Pre users liberally utilized iTunes as their music sorting engine of choice—as it turns out, without the tech giant’s explicit permission—and will have to keep using old versions of the software if they want to remain iTunes-compatible.
Worse for the wear is Palm who, without the massively important and universal iTunes, will have a lot more trouble marketing the Pre as a practical iPhone substitute. Unfortunately, that leads to questions about the company’s viability as a whole.
In other news, iPhone users were recently given another reason to be way into themselves. (Dicks.)
c’mon dude. Apple has a nice open structure for 3rd-party device compatibility with iTunes, in the forms of the library XML file and the database. Palm chose to ignore that and pick a hacky route instead. Tough noogies, Palm.