Article: Rivalry between Apple and Palm intensifies over iTunes access; Apple- Palm rivalry gets more intense over smartphone access to iTunes

Jenna Wortham
International Herald Tribune
08-05-2009
Rivalry between Apple and Palm intensifies over iTunes access; Apple- Palm rivalry gets more intense over smartphone access to iTunes
Byline: Jenna Wortham
Type: News

Apple wants its iPhone to be the only cellphone to link effortlessly to its service, but Palm is putting up a fight.

The Palm Pre has a large touch screen, slide-out keyboard and fast Web browsing. Palm also likes to point out the smartphone's ability to link to iTunes, Apple's music and media store.
But Apple wants to make sure the iPhone is the only cellphone that can do that. So it changed its software to block the Pre's access to iTunes.

Now Palm is calling foul and is ...

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