WebOS Update Comes Without Music: Has Palm Given Up The iTunes Fight?
There are a myriad of great new features in the latest WebOS update for the Palm Pre – wide screen YouTube, support for Yahoo! messaging amongst other things…yet curiously absent in this build is the infamous syncing support for Apple’s iTunes service.
Since the US launch this summer, every iTunes update that attempted to sever the Pre’s much vaunted illegitimate connection with their media download portal was swiftly met by an update from Palm, resuming the ability to transfer music and movies seamlessly between the two. But not this time.
The dispute ratcheted up in August when Palm attempted to take Apple to task over USB permission rights, but were tersely put down by regulatory body the USB Implementer’s Forum over having the Pre pretend to be an iPod in order to gain access in the first place. The battleground has been curiously quiet since…
Rumours as to why Palm have let Apple win this round have been varied, from Palm investing in developing their own syncing solution to simply running out of energy.
Palm has confirmed that the syncing feature is indeed absent from this latest version of WebOS, compatible with the diminutive Pixi as well as the pebble-shaped Pre, but have declined to comment on as to why this is.
Let’s hope that the find a solution, amicable or otherwise, to the smartest – and most controversial – unique selling points of Palm’s slick device.
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