Will Apple allow the Palm Pre to download from and sync with iTunes?

Will Apple allow the Palm Pre to download from and sync with iTunes (ITMS = iTunes Music Store)? 

At first, my reaction was, "No way".

After giving  it some thought, I can see good reasons for Apple to say yes.

To begin  with Apple allows a number of other music players to download and sync music from iTunes.

Palm Pre's should be allowed to download music on the same basis as other manufacturers.

To deny Palm users this ability would seem to be, petty in the eyes of many, and the basis for unwanted negative Apple publicity. 

On the other hand, by allowing Pre users to download from iTunes, Apple could be seen as both magnanimous and subtly stating, it has nothing to fear from Palm.

It also reinforces the notion of Apple's user friendliness in both respects.

Pre users may already be Apple customers so why irritate them.

Pre users may not be Apple customers and every visit to iTunes advertises Apple and it's product and services. It's only a few clicks to see all of the iPhone/iPod Touch applications (currently about 40,000 of them and growing); as compared with a modest number of Palm apps.

Some who will buy the Pre are attracted to it because it looks functional in the videos and is the current "newest thing". When that newness wears off, or disappointment sets in, their trips to iTunes may wind up bringing many to Apple products. That's reason enough to put out the early welcome mat.

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Steve Jobs shows the simplicity of Apple design philosophy.

Steve Jobs shows the simplicity of Apple design philosophy. 

You Tube Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00uDLRzJViE

This could have been created on a Mac, iPhone or iPod Touch. In any event I hope it brings a smile to your face.

English is a Crazy Language

An Excerpt from the Introduction, by Richard Lederer

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Let's face it -- English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese... One blouse, 2 blice?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?

Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?

How can a "slim chance" and a "fat chance" be the same, while a "wise man" and "wise guy" are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while "quite a lot" and "quite a few" are alike? How can the weather be "hot as hell" one day and "cold as hell" another?

Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who are spring chickens or who would actually hurt a fly?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it?

Now I know why I flunked my English. It's not my fault, the silly language doesn't quite know whether it's coming or going.

Supply shortages hint that new iPhone coming soon!

AT&T running dry of iPhones, offering refurbs. New iPhone announcement expected on 6/8/09 at WWDC. Appleinsider.

http://tinyurl.com/ok89fc

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Bebot Music App-Awesome!

If you want to see the amazing power of the Apple iPhone platform, check out the Bebot App music video. It can run on iPhone and the iPod Touch.

Thanks to danfrakes (http://tinyurl.com/oegmdv) for tweeting about this App.

Checkout the whole video. Video link: http://tinyurl.com/buxats

Normalware the makers of Bebot assure me that: "A user manual is on the way and should be on the site within the next few days".

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Next Gen iPhone One Model.

I have read a number of articles and blog posts about the next iPhone generation having several models, with different functionality.

I do not think that will be the case.

Their will continue to be several models of the new iPhone differentiated by the amount of memory, but I expect the design and functionality of those models to be the same. 

Everyone anticipates a new 32GB model. I suppose an additional 64GB model would be a welcome surprise. So 16GB, 32GB and possibly 64GB.

One of Apples great strengths is to simplify selection of well made items.

A limited number of desktops and laptops differentiated more by accessories, than capabilities. 

Yes I know about the Macbook Air. 

The point is, unlike most cellphone makers, Apple doesn't make 20 different models of each type of product it sells.

Think of the beauty of the simplicity. 

Do you want an iPhone? OK, what color white or black and/or maybe a new color, and what amount of memory?

To me this simplicity cuts through the chatter of those electronic companies, who insist on making many models with different forms and functions, usually designated by a meaningless number and letter mixture.

The iPhone price differentiation will come mainly through memory selection not capabilities.

You can essentially run all software that runs on a Mac on it's laptops and desktops of the current generation, unlike PC makers and netbook makers, who may reduce capabilities, to make a price point.

The biggest part of the iPhone expense is the cost of the voice and data plan over the two year contract. 

So while a reduced iPhone price is nice to have, you don't want to lose any functionality to get the lower price.

Some cost help may come from reductions in iPhone plan pricing and the possibility of data plans being an option and not a requirement.

Want to run apps but don't care about making phone calls from everywhere?

Consider an iPod Touch. (Even with an iPod Touch you can call using voip over wifi) and access the web on wifi or even get an expensive MIFI portable wifi card, for everywhere web access. (See articles about MIFI from Sprint and Verizon on Appledoozy.com).

I do think that some iPhone capabilities may be inhibited for iPhones sold in China at the request of the Chinese government; but for the rest of the world, I see one essential iPhone.

Sprint Getting Ready to Gouge Consumers With it's WIFI (MIFI) Plans.

Struggling cell carrier Sprint is going to charge more than high priced Verizon for the Novatel MIFI 2200 portable hotspot.

That should make customers love them more.

According to Ubergizmo:

"The price of the device is $100 (after a $50 rebate and a 2-yr plan). Sprint has two monthly plans that go for $60/mo (data only) or $150/mo "simple everything plan" (voice+data). don't forget that there's a monthly 5GB cap." 

Link to full article: http://tinyurl.com/ogstwf

See earlier Appledoozy post about Verizon's plan "Some additional thoughts about the soon to be released Novatel MiFi 2200" at Appledoozy.com