Apple Palm Battle Rages On
When the hype was building up before the release of the Pre one of the big things that people were excited about was the ability to sync the palm with iTunes.
iTunes threatened casually mentioned in a press conference that in future updates iTunes “may no longer provide syncing functionality with unsupported digital media players” [Businessweek].
In the first half of this month iTunes 8.2.1 was released which broke syncing with the Pre. Since there were no exceptional features in 8.2.1–other than blocking Pre syncing–most users just dealt with it by not upgrading.
Now Palm has struck back with WebOS update 1.1 which once again allows you to sync the Pre. There are some other nice features like being able to set ‘person reminders’ for each individual person in your contacts but the iTunes syncing is the big news this update. From the Palm Blog:
“That’s right — you once again can have
seamless access to your music,
photos and videos from the current
version of iTunes (8.2.1).”
