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Originally Posted by JohnnyFlame
And why should other companies get to use the phone infrastructure setup long ago by other companies is just one example? Why should one company get to restrict third company/third person apps? Palm wasn't going to do anything about having their vast amount of old apps work on the Pre. But with Classic by Motion Apps you can do just that. Palm didn't step in and stop them. There are so many apps out there that work better than what the companies provide. If they don't want to let them in then hey I have no problem whatsoever with them hacking their way in.
This BS world where I can't get the cellphone plan I would want even though it's available in other countries is bogus so I don't own one. Or cable having the ability to force me to buy stations I don't even want because they have the market cornered. Just a couple of examples. Anyone working to give me what I want is good in my books. Quasi-legal -- whatever.
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I don't understand your point. Palm's phone is sending a false vendor ID to iTunes to spoof it into thinking it's an iPod - which is enabling it to sync with iTunes. The argument is why don't they just write their own sync software like everyone else does?
Why should Apple be forced to make its privately-built and funded sync application work with a competitor's product? Blackberry makes their own. Microsoft makes their own. Apple makes their own. Palm should make their own.
It doesn't really need to be more complicated than that.