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One of the Palm Pre’s selling points is its ability to sync with your current Itunes library. On Tuesday, Apple published a support article iTunes: About unsupported third-party digital media players.

Read the excerpt below

Apple designs the hardware and software to provide seamless integration of the iPhone and iPod with iTunes, the iTunes Store, and tens of thousands of apps on the App Store. Apple is aware that some third-parties claim that their digital media players are able to sync with Apple software. However, Apple does not provide support for, or test for compatibility with, non-Apple digital media players and, because software changes over time, newer versions of Apple’s iTunes software may no longer provide syncing functionality with non-Apple digital media players.

While they don’t mention Palm by name, It’s pretty clear who they are talking about. The thing is, their has always been devices that are able to copy songs from Itunes but the Palm Pre goes the extra step of identifying itself as an iPod. This of course has something to do with the fact that the Pre has a lot of former Apple engineers working on the device.

Palm’s response is

“Palm’s media sync works with the current version of iTunes,” Palm spokesperson Lynn Fox told Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski. “If Apple chooses to disable media sync in a future version of iTunes, it will be a direct blow to their users who will be deprived of a seamless synchronization experience. However, people will have options. They can stay with the iTunes version that works to sync their music on their Pre, they can transfer the music via USB, and there are other third-party applications we could consider.”

I am very surprised that Apple did not file a lawsuit like they have been threatening for months now.

I was messing around with Wolfram Alpha, the new computational engine and I must say it can very very helpful if you know what to look for. It can also return some hilarious answers like the one below. The question was “Are you Skynet?”

Toshiba just made a statement saying, “It will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.” This is the final nail in the coffin for HD DVD. My stomach turned a little because I really wanted HD DVD to win. Sony has already wrecked enough technology in my lifetime for me to trust them anymore. I think it call came down to money, who was more willing to give the studios more money. HD DVD or Blu-Ray

Another interesting thing to watch is if the end of the format war will finally get consumers to go out and purchase HD content, Most people are already very happy with DVD and just made the switch from VHS just few years ago. A number of tech savvy people I know who have Playstation 3 game consoles have never once tried the Blu-Ray player on the console, even though they have high definition television sets and incredible sound systems.

Now when the Blu-Ray Disks and Players are still not flyinh off the shelves, it can no longer be blamed on the format war. And with HD DVD gone, Sony no longer has the incentive the aggressively lower the prices of the players.

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