Palm re-enables iTunes sync with webOS 1.2.1
Truth be told, we weren’t really at all surprised five days ago to find that webOS 1.2 lacked the ability to sync with iTunes, you know, considering that Palm had just been reprimanded by the USB Implementers Forum for its vendor ID shenanigans. Late last night/early this morning Palm pushed out webOS 1.2.1, though, and guess whaaaaat? iTunes syncing is back. Palm is quite coy to downplay the significance of the move by saying that webOS 1.2.1 “resolves an issue preventing media sync from working with latest version of iTunes (9.0.1)” but the reality of the situation is that Palm has firmly cemented its position as Chief Crap Disturber of the smartphone world. After all, there really isn’t a need to put up such a stink about iTunes syncing seeing as practically any phone can sync with iTunes, but we do concede there is nothing quite like out of the box support. We could go on and on for ages about this, but we’ll spare you the lecture because its the weekend. Corporate users will be pleased to note that the new software fixes that major bug that stopped Exchange 2007 from, well, Exchanging and everyone will be happy that Palm finally realized that optimizing photos for ones device is a good thing. So, Pre users, what’s the verdict on 1.2.1?
@john
Yeah ok.. so? At least Video recording can be BROUGHT ton the Pre with a firmware update unlike my 3G which is SOL, I should just buy a 3G S if I want that because the 3G is totally incapable (LOL!).
Now a little over a year later and the iPhone 3G is within the same price range as a Nokia flip phone
How dare Apple spend millions of their own dollars to create a successful solution between their hardware and software and not give it to the competition for free. Who do they think they are.
I think all successful tech companies should have to spend millions of their own dollars to write the competitions software for them. It’s only fair because they’re successful. Right?
Palm is just showing what bottom feeders they are. whether you like Apple or not, they owe their competitors nothing. There isn’t any Anti trust. There isn’t a Monopoly. Apple is just very successful. Last time I checked, it wasn’t a crime.
Palm should change their name to Carp. It fits. And on a bad day they can change the spelling to Crap. It also fits.
With 50,000,000 iPhone/iPod touch users. I don’t think Apple is worried about losing the Pre’s smallish user base.
Apple owes them nothing! Write your own software Carp, I mean Crap, I mean Palm. If you can that is. RIM did.
Ok, this is just getting stupid. Every one of you who is whining about Apple “locking competitors out of their music libraries” has obviously not done your homework.
Apple allows full access, read and write, to the iTunes library. That’s how Blackberry does it, and many other devices. The library is published with a fully documented, open, and public XML document that any software maker can access.
What Palm is doing is a nasty hack because they can’t support their customers well enough to actually write software for them.
You are all crowing about them being too cheap to do the work themselves, and instead acting like a parasite on software written by Apple.
Ridiculous.
Is it really that bad or are some of us making a bigger deal than it needs to be. Let these two big companies slug it out, in the end we the consumers will come out as winners
Ya I must agree with Don Louie. I could really couldn’t care less about this. Palm does have balls like John said up top, and I also agree with his take on this POS website. It appears BGR is fair to everyone but Palm. I too will never visit this fucked up site again. If all you fan boys want to reply to me it doesn’t matter, I will not see it. So slam away. It is funny I always say the iPhone is a nice phone, just not one I think is the best. Maybe once but not now. My opinion, I can have it. Oh and BTW, this sight has established itself in the prediction world as “Chief Crap Distributor”, so maybe you all need to stop with your shit rumors… (That is why I came here to see why the dumb article predicts Oct. 20th, when Sprint releases phones on Saturdays) Fucking Idiots!!!