Apple Throws Down Gauntlet – Disables iTunes Sync for Palm Pre and Other Smart Phones

Can’t sync iTunes with your Palm Pre or other smart phone, when previously you could? Your Palm Pre isn’t broken - Apple has intentionally disabled the ability for non-iPod or iPhone phones to sync with iTunes in it’s newest version of iTunes, iTunes 8.2.1. And make no mistake - this was intentional. Apple has said, of the move, that iTunes 8.2.1 “provides a number of important bug fixes,” and “It also disables devices falsely pretending to be iPods, including the Palm Pre.” The new iTun