When Palm launched its new pre smartphone earlier this month, one of the phone’s many advertised features is its ability to sync media with Apple’s iTunes software. That’s right: when you pop a pre onto a computer, iTunes seems to magically see (and treat) it like an iPod music player, enabling users to sync music, podcasts, video, and more to the device as if it were one of Apple’s own. The feature raised eyebrows in the technical community, prompting speculation that perhaps former Apple employees (now at Palm) had used proprietary information to set up the syncing capability, or if Palm had independently devised its own clever workaround.
