{"id":289,"date":"2009-05-29T02:09:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T01:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/29\/palm-pre-syncs-with-apple-and-more\/"},"modified":"2012-04-25T14:53:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:53:16","slug":"palm-pre-syncs-with-apple-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/29\/palm-pre-syncs-with-apple-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm Pre syncs with Apple, and more!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left\" src=\"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/palm-logo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"163\" \/>Palm came out with a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/d7.allthingsd.com\/20090528\/d7-interview-jon-rubinstein-and-roger-mcnamee-and-the-palm-pre\/\">news<\/a> that reiterates the old wisdom of joining who you cannot beat. The Pre will apparently be able to sync with Apple&#8217;s iTunes and iPhoto apps. Apparently, the Pre makes iTunes think it is an iPod or something. The whole thing apparently fails on the DRM side, so no &#8220;old&#8221; iTunes for the Pre then&#8230; What Apple will say to this? Well, that remains to be seen. They surely won&#8217;t be happy. But on the other hand, they will probably want to avoid any in-depth tussle over the question of their proprietary software, monopolization and all.<\/p>\n<p>We also learned that, because Palm Executive Chairman Rubinstein is an old Apple hand, &#8220;the engineering culture at Palm bears some similarities to [Apple&#8217;s]&#8221;. There you have it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right\" src=\"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/palm-pre-rm-ces-main-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"117\" \/>But the Pre is doing even better on the music front: its MP3 player includes onboard support for Amazon\u2019s MP3 Store. Files are downloaded directly over the air to the device. Now that&#8217;s pretty cool!<\/p>\n<p>More coolness comes with search: the Pre searches, and then &#8211; if you want &#8211; it searches some more, in Google, in Twitter, &#8230; Neat, very neat!<\/p>\n<p>Now, on to the app store. Oops, it is called &#8220;web catalogue&#8221; at Palm. How many apps at launch? Um, &#8220;a dozen or so&#8221;&#8230; Ah&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So will it succeed? Of course it will: according to Roger McNamee, managing partner of principal Palm investor Elevation Partners, all iPhone users with expiring contracts will switch to the Pre at 4.25pm. There you have it, again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palm came out with a bit of news that reiterates the old wisdom of joining who you cannot beat. The Pre will apparently be able to sync with Apple&#8217;s iTunes and iPhoto apps. Apparently, the Pre makes iTunes think it is an iPod or something. 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