Disqus
Just how did Palm manage to get their Palm Pre to connect to Apple’s iTunes software and synchronize your media libraries? Thanks to a little snooping around in iTunes, the infamous encryption-breaking “DVD Jon” (Jon Lech Johansen) has confirmed that the Palm Pre’s iTunes compatibility is indeed a hack. The Palm Pre’s “MediaSync” tricks iTunes into thinking that an iPod is connected, allowing it to sync media to the Pre’s on-board storage.
DVD Jon reports that while the Pre’s Mass Storage interface masquerades as an iPod, the main IOUSBDevice still shows up as a Palm Pre. That little fact alone could make it very easy for Apple to block the Palm Pre from syncing with iTunes in the future. But, rest easy in knowing that the latest iTunes 8.2 update works with the Palm Pre.
Palm Pre customers will probably want to hold off on updating their iTunes installations indefinitely. “Security updates” be damned.
[Via: nanocr]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
