Apple Releases iTunes (8.2.1): Disables iTunes Syncing with Pre

Jul 20, 2009 by Shahbaaz

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Apple has been ruling the roost of the mobile phone market for the king-crowned iPhone, almost two years until Palm introduced its iPhone killer, Pre to give Apple a jerk, and it did really trouble Apple for a while.

The Palm Pre was artfully designed to sync with the iTunes, probably because Palm was intelligent enough to grope for a loop hole in the iTunes and thus suggested Apple a strong reason to hoick it.

Apple has stirred antagonism as a response to Palm by disabling iTunes support for Palm Pre. The iTunes update (iTunes 8.2.1) “addresses an issue with verification of Apple devices” which means any devices “falsely pretending to be iPods” will no longer have access to the iTunes music store and syncing, confirmed Apple Spokeswoman Natalie Kerris.

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Apple has statements that cement this audacious move, at least when they say that the update “provides a number of important bug fixes”, and thus disables non-Apple devices to sync with iTunes where Apple pronounced this as a part of the bug fixes.

Not just Palm Pre owners will suffer the blow, but also those who have been using third party devices and have enjoyed the priviliges to flirt with iTunes will now have to dig their own way out if they want the enormous music collections on their multimedia devices.

We would always suggest you to live with the most contemporary version of any software and keep updating it. But, if you are a Palm Pre owner and would love to still sync your Pre with the iTunes, just don’t go by the rule. Stick to the current version of the iTunes that allows you to sync your Palm Pre with iTunes or precisely said do not update your iTunes Software for now.

Palm suggests its now baffled and dumb struck Pre owners to add music to the Pre using the traditional drag and drop technique via USB or go for any third party apps that should closely parallel iTunes in this regard.

An official statement from Palm in this regard reads -

“Palm’s media sync works with iTunes 8.2. If Apple chooses to disable media sync in iTunes, it will be a direct blow to their users who will be deprived of a seamless synchronization experience. However, people will have options. They can stay with the iTunes version that works to sync their music on their Pre, they can transfer the music via USB, and there are other third-party applications we can consider.”

Palm may also come with an update to counter Apple’s move but whatever Palm should ever do to re-allow syncing with iTunes, Apple will always lead the front. Reason? What is obvious is Apple owns the rights and iTunes is its baby and it would always be Apple iTunes not Palm’s.