Comments on: Palm responds to USB-IF decision favoring Apple

By: charli

charli — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:30:32 +0000

Palm is too lazy to go that route. cause what RIM did was to take the info from the XML and make their own sync program.

By: Khaled

Khaled — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:32:14 +0000

RIM’s blackberry manager supports iTunes syncing by NOT acting like an iPod. Why can’t palm do that?

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:34:13 +0000

Well, beating your head against the wall gets you nowhere Palm.

Try writing a piece of software to sycn your phone to iTunes.

Oh, yeah, you’re not very good at writing software.

By: Joe Anonymous

Joe Anonymous — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:29:03 +0000

““We engaged with the USB-IF because we believe consumers should have freedom and choice in how and where they use the non-rights managed media they already own,” Derick Mains, Palm’s director of Corporate Communications, told The Loop.”

Cool. I believe my freedom of choice should allow me to use a Palm Pre at no charge. Please send me one. Oh, and include one for my daughter and pet cat, too.

These people are idiots. They believe that their silly ‘freedom of choice’ argument allows them to lie about their USB ID? Heck, it probably violates DMCA, as well.

By: charli

charli — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:57:31 +0000

yep. Derek is so totally misinformed on said issue. Back in the days of DRM on music sure, but not now.

Also, he should be informed that it is NOT Apple but the Studios that require the DRM on video files to ensure that Apple is only providing the access they paid for, which is on Apple computers, ipods and Apple TV. they do not have a license for any other uses. If Palm has an issue with that, they need to go after the Studios that made the rules, not Apple who merely must comply

By: charli

charli — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:54:13 +0000

i knew. I called it several times. Palm 100% violated the rules. they were going to be smacked for it.

Apple on the other hand, did not. perhaps they did tweak things to shut Palm out. but they could claim that with all the various models of ipods out there they needed to add the Vendor check to ensure that their devices were recognized (which is not against the rules at all) and until someone produces the smoking gun that says otherwise, that’s the story that will stick

By: zwei

zwei — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:32:08 +0000

I can’t believe how many people are badmouthing Apple because of this. People need to realize that Palm doesn’t have to create an iTunes competitor to be able to sync music to their Pre. They just have to create a “helper” app that reads the damn .xml file generated by iTunes and copies the relevant songs/playlists to their phone. Nobody has to ditch iTunes in order to have this functionality. When are people going to figure this out? Someone needs to do a story *cough* explaining this.

By: Perry Clease

Perry Clease — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:19:41 +0000

“We engaged with the USB-IF because we believe consumers should have freedom and choice in how and where they use the non-rights managed media they already own,” Derick Mains, Palm’s director of Corporate Communications,’

Well Derick you are entitled to your beliefs, but that doesn’t mean that you are legally entitled to act on them. Who do you think you are, Pystar?

By: Steven Fisher

Steven Fisher — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:50:39 +0000

This is really quite entertaining. There seems to be an internal reality distortion field around Palm that affects their ability to predict decisions by anyone outside of the company. Anyone outside knew which way the USB-IF was going to fall on this, the only question was what sort of action they’d take on Palm (if any).

Personally, I doubted the USB-IF had the balls to do anything. They’ve already exceeded my expectations, even if they do nothing in seven days.