On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:41:52 -0500, Jon Ribbens
<jon+usenet@unequivocal.co.uk> wrote in
<slrnh4ika0.bd8.jon+usenet@snowy.squish.net>:

>On 2009-06-29, Todd Allcock <elecconnec@aNOoSPAMl.com> wrote:

>> The Pre debuts with the ability to sync with iTunes, (which everyone
>> now considers the de facto "standard" in music management) and Apple
>> immediately responds with warnings that future iTunes updates could
>> break third-party sync functionality.
>
>Er, of course they said that. They presumably don't have access to the
>Pre source code, they don't know how it works, they have no way of
>guaranteeing that it will work (not to mentiom very little motivation
>to come up with such a guarantee, of course ;-) ).

That's not the issue, and is at best disingenuous, since Apple has an
interest in preventing (breaking) syncing of non-Apple products with
iTunes.

>This surely is actually a point considerably in favour of Apple - they
>have managed to get most (all?) of the music on iTunes to be DRM-free,
>so you can use iTunes to purchase your music no matter what phone you
>use.

Not really -- DRM-free MP3 was available from Amazon before iTunes went
DMR-free.

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Best regards,
John <http:/navasgroup.com>

If the iPhone is really so impressive,
why do fans keep making excuses for it?