This latest article puts Apple about on par with Sony for being an arrogant corporation that wants to keep controlling what you do with your hardware/software, even after you walked away paying for it. It’s not enough to just sell you the application, the music, or the hardware; they need to dictate how you will use your software and how you will buy their online products.
Palm PRE’s media sync software currently works with iTunes version 8.2, by pretending to be an iPod when users try download stuff form the iTunes store. With the release of 8.2.1 Wednesday, which does little other than to block the PRE’s ability to fool iTunes that it’s an iPod, that fun is over.
An Apple worm was recently quoted saying, “iTunes 8.2.1 is a free software update that provides a number of important bug fixes. It also disables devices falsely pretending to be iPods, including the Palm Pre.” We wouldn’t to have anyone pretend anything that’s for sure.
So all you Palm PRE users who were trying to be descent people by BUYING music at the iTunes store, unlike so many of your peers, learn your lesson well. Either don’t buy your music at all anymore, or just not from Apple’s iTunes store. Apple would of course love for you to run out and take back your PRE and buy an iPhone/iPod, but I think you should extend your middle finger and offer Apple a well deserved expletive instead.
With Apple, it’s always their way or the highway. Why can’t they just be happy that someone is spending money at their store?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/15/apple_disables_palm_pre_access_to_itunes
