Apple Blocks Palm Pre iTunes Syncing

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   [John Gruber on the new Pre’s integration with iTunes][link]. He’s, as usual, pretty right. The real crime here, though, is that Apple doesn’t provide a good way for third party devices to do this *without* this kind of chicanery. There’s another thing here, too: maybe Palm is using their position to force Apple’s hand? Obviously, […]...

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   [Glenn Peoples, writing for Billboard][link]: >On Wednesday, one day after the price increase, the iTunes Top 100 chart had 40 songs priced at $1.29 and 60 with the original $0.99 price point. The $1.29 songs lost an average of 5.3 places on the chart while the $0.99 songs gained an average of 2.5 chart positions. […]...