Editorial: Palm, iTunes, and the ties that don’t bind

So I was out of town last week when Apple and Palm got into it over the Pre syncing with iTunes, and the more I think about it, the more ridiculous the situation has become. If you’ll remember, the Pre shipped with a hack that allowed it to appear as an iPod, which was inevitably blocked by Apple, and Palm’s latest move was to spoof the Pre’s USB Vendor ID to make it look like an Apple product while simultaneously complaining to the USB Implementor’s Forum that Apple improperly uses the field. Yeah, it’s messy, and the end result is that while Palm is getting a lot of attention for jabbing at Apple, Pre owners are being left with a jury-rigged hack of a solution that will almost certainly be blocked by the next iTunes update — and Palm’s official advice is that you should hold off on updating iTunes to ensure Pre compatibility.

Let’s just say it: this is insane.

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