Apple Kills Pre's Access to iTunes

We always knew it was too good to last. The fact that the Palm Pre could work with iTunes just seemed like one thing the manufacturers looked over. Palm even mentioned that the access could be terminated at any second, and they were right. Apple released a newer version of iTunes yesterday that cut off the syncing functionality with non-Apple media players.

While it wasn’t wholly unexpected, we didn’t really expect it to hit so soon. But apparently Apple was ready to get rid of the Palm. In the Software Update menu for the new version 8.2.1 Apple said that one of the fixes was to “address the issue with verification of Apple devices.” Later, Apple even went so far as to call out Pre manufacturers saying the newest version of iTunes stops devices “falsely pretending to be iPods, including the Palm Pre.” I don’t know about you, but those sound like fightin’ words to me.

So now we have to wait and see. Palm has apparently taken it the change personally, saying that it’s aimed as a direct blow to Palm users. So now it appears both sides have drawn the line and it’s Palm’s turn to see if they can come up with some sort of rebuff, a counterstrike aimed at Apple’s users. We don’t know what they should do, but we’re hoping they do something. If for nothing more than blog fodder.

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