Comments on: Palm Pre’s iTune Sync: Destined for Oblivion?

By: Palm’s Quixotic Quest Continues | Technologizer

Palm’s Quixotic Quest Continues | Technologizer — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:55:06 +0000

[...] post up on all this that beats up Palm pretty good. He wonders the same thing that I’ve been curious about for months: Why doesn’t Palm, like numerous other companies, write a standalone app to do the syncing? [...]

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:21:40 +0000

So at this time is there any way to download videos from itunes to the palm pre and be able to watch them. I was able to download the videos but the show up as error in reading file, any ideals or hinds

By: Palm Goes For the Throat in Apple Tiff | Technologizer

Palm Goes For the Throat in Apple Tiff | Technologizer — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:01:24 +0000

[...] in attempting to break into the walled garden that is iPod/iTunes. That is essentially what the Pre Media Sync does — it tricks iTunes into thinking the Pre is an Apple [...]

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:20:15 +0000

Like Bill Hair, I’m getting the same “SONG NAME” was not copied because the FairPlay version is not supported by the iPod “Palm Pre” for 52 out of my selected (checked to sync) 1,300 songs. I hope there’s a fix for this eventually.

Bill

By: Bill Hair

Bill Hair — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:12:35 +0000

It does work, however, FAIRPLAY blocks certain songs from downloading. Out of 800 songs (300 purchased from itunes and the rest ripped from CDs), 100 would not sync and gave the following error message:

“SONG” was not copied because the FairPlay version is not supported by the iPod “Palm Pre”.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
BillH

By: Tim Layton

Tim Layton — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:59:41 +0000

I have used the Missing Sync with windows mobile and it works very good.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:32:05 +0000

Or maybe, Palm and Apple have a MoI (Memorandum of Understanding) – or “gentlemens agreement” – to allow the sync without fuss or retribution? Tag team together and rip apart the Blackberry and upcoming Windows Mobile phones. Also remember that a lot of people now with Palm and who worked on/with the Pre are ex-Apple employee’s so there could be some leveraging of existing relationships going on.

Storm in a tea-cup if you ask me. Move on, nothing to see here! ZZZzzzz

By: JD

JD — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:37:36 +0000

iTunes apparently has a 70%+ market share. Breaking Palm’s integration is anticompetitive. Antitrust law frowns on monopolists acting in anticompetitive ways. The DoJ has a bigger legal budget than Apple.

Palm isn’t counting on Apple’s goodwill to maintain the sync–they’re counting on Apple’s lawyers to maintain the sync.

By: derbbre

derbbre — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:28:18 +0000

Why is Palm interested in using iTunes, anyway? Unless they trick iTunes into syncing ALL of the phone’s features – contacts, photos, calendars, apps(?!) – as iTunes does with iPhone/iPod, there’s no real value in using iTunes for Pre sync. The Apple / iPhone feature that SO many manufacturers miss is the seamless integration. I use iTunes, iCal, Address Book, and Mail, and it all just syncs.

I was a Palm user for many years, and HotSync was a piece of junk: constantly messing up my calendar evens, never really figuring out how to sync in both directions. Absolute junk. Palm should worry less about using iTunes, and just focus on making their own software work.

By: Chip

Chip — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:53:27 +0000

I think John Gruber is spot-on: there is no way Apple is going to let a non-iPod to show up in iTunes as “iPod”

Still, I don’t think it’s too farfetched that Palm may have licensed some technology from Apple to do this syncing.

I hope this is not a big deal for either company.