[sayam]

The title says it all - and though I'll believe it when I see it, according to Fortune magazine it's 100% true. They claim on plugging the Pre into a Mac, iTunes recognized the device just like an iPhone/iPod Touch and synced "flawlessly" to it. This seems to be a direct attack on Apple's claim to "aggressively protect" it's Intellectual Property.

Not only is Palm Pre allegedly infringing the iPhone's patents, but Palm has found some way out to make the Pre sync with Apple's own Music store as well!

According to the source, all the music syncs perfectly except DRM'ed tracks purchased earlier. Now, the question arises - how did Palm get ahold of this technology, which was pretty confidential? The answer is quite clear - from Jon Rubenstein. He had been a top exec at Apple, and is rumored to have been fired because of his argument of adding a physical keyboard to iPhone. In fact, a recent argument has arisen that the Palm Pre is in fact his vision of an iPhone!

Palm might not be able to sneak that easily, as this has some significant legal implications - and we already know Apple is the Lord of Lawsuits. What do you have to say about it Apple?

On the other side, Apple might just ignore this as it is them who benefits from it by selling more music...

[Engadget via Fortune Mag]

[lilzone]

well if the pre is his vision of what the iphone should be, then I'll keep mine. From what I have seen of the Pre it does look like a good phone and all, but dont think it is going to outdo the iphone. exp after 3.0 comes out.

[RonHC]

cool

[r1994augusto]

nice & cool!

[shagster40]

Yeah Motorola used to say the ROKR would sync with itunes as well but we all know how that worked out."Piece of junk"

[tonycortes]

Palm Pre is a really great phone. No contest it's great competition to the iPhone. You need to try it before you try to put it down. Unfortunate it has to be with Sprint service. Adding this phone to my collection and anyone else is worth it.

[s4mb4]

i do not see what the big stinking deal is about the Pre...
i really like it when it is refered to as an iPhone killer. watch and see, it will fail and Palm will be filing chapter 7 by x-mas.

[mikerlx]

iPhone will always rule! Pre kinda looks like HTC touch.

[hybirdd]

apple woudln't let this happen for sure

[reddevilseye]

apple will let it go
because jailbreaking is causing more harm than, this at least this will increase some sales oh songs

[sziklassy]

The OP all too hastily assumes (if this is true) that Apple is not aware of this, and if they are, that Apple wouldn't allow it. Is it at all possible that Palm came to Apple and got permission for this? Surely a company like Palm isn't foolish enough to take such actions without consent are they?

[soc]

sweetness a friend of mine over on sprint is getting this phone

[bishopazrael]

Yeah the first thing that came to my mind when reading this was that Palm has a deal with apple to sync. It makes sense since the isync has gone syncml. I was wondering how palm was going to get the mac fans won over and this would be it. I mean really... why develop another palm desktop when palm knows damn good and well that their fanbase is made up of TONS of mac users, and why develop and spend money on making a new version of palm desktop when they know most mac users just want to go straight through to ical / address book. I'm betting they have a deal with apple and if thats not it, they're doing it legit through syncml services or some such.

[M4tt Dam0n]

Too bad the Pre is garbage.

[iMacMar]

I think the Pre is pretty neat and the Os is also kinda refreshin but dont get me wrong the iPhone is still the best but i think this competition is good for us the consumer because now apple has to push far and beyond to remain king. Giving us the benefit to receive more creative and innovative ideas than we already have.

Oh yea could apple just update iTunes and lock the sync?