MUSIC Most phones do a feeble job as music players. Especially compared with the iPhone itself, which, after all, is an actual iPod.
But so, apparently, is the Pre.
When you connect it to your Mac or PC, the Pre appears in Apple’s iTunes software, labeled “iPod.” You can now sync your music, photo and video collections (minus the copy-protected items). ITunes never knows the difference. Apple’s lawyers must be having conniptions.
Sprint is advertising that the Pre works with iTunes 8.2. I had no idea it worked like that. That's pretty awesome; and I wonder if Palm payed some royalties to allow that...
I had no idea it worked like that. That's pretty awesome; and I wonder if Palm payed some royalties to allow that...
Ther's a lot of speculation about that. Some think they paid for a license, others think that we can be expecting a hack-war between the two companies, as Apple tries to prevent 3rd party apps from accessing it, while Palm keeps reverse engineering it.
It's just broadcasting that it's an ipod that doesn't understand DRM.
Interesting turn of events, though not one that really affects me (what with my Zune and all).
Yeah, it's been confirmed that when in "media sync" mode, the device just spoofs the iPod USB device ids. Pretty awesome, and sure to annoy Apple, especially since the Pre is building momentum.
I wonder if other mp3 manu's will end up following suit.
