On 2009-06-30, John Navas <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote:
>>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.

Not much of an interest - there's no way they could prevent Palm
(or anyone) providing some trivial tiny app that syncs the iTunes
music library with any device they want to, given that the iTunes
music files are just unprotected files on the computer.

>>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.

"That's not the issue, and is at best disingenuous."