Comments on: Palm Pre iPod spoofing confirmed

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:23:13 +0000

could this mean that somone may be able to give the touchpad this feature and possibly allow for this device to be formated and have ios installed? If a hack could be made to trick itunes to think an iPad was connected then all you wound need is an ios port with touchpad hardware support. I may be wrong outfit seems doable?

By: unsecured wifi

unsecured wifi — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:26:15 +0000

thanks for this im adding this blog to my twitter.

By: coolfx35

coolfx35 — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:29:17 +0000

My name is Brian, and I just got my Pre on Saturday by a stroke of sheer luck… They “Found” 10 extra units in the back room when everywhere else was sold out.

I LOVE this phone, but I’m getting a little tired of hearing about how much better the iPhone is by Apple fans who haven’t even touched the Pre.

Yes, the iPhone is nice and all that, but come on.. let us enjoy our phones in peace. There’s no need to tell us that our phone sucks when we just laid 3-400 bucks down on the counter for it.

I hang out at http://www.PalmPreForum.org a site made for all Palm Pre owners.

By: pb is an idiot

pb is an idiot — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:46:43 +0000

Pierce Brosnan you are an IDIOT. PalmOS was developed for PDA devices. Then when cellphones started being integrated into PDA’s there was a limitation on what could be done. The only thing they could do was develop an OS specifically for a Phone with PDA second in mind instead of vise versa.

By: holy-terrorist

holy-terrorist — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:30:42 +0000

Me name is
*=* holy-terrorist *=*
the famoux hacker *=* hehehehe

By: holy-terrorist

holy-terrorist — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:29:18 +0000

mm is script code C++, and i dpnt know english, is used for what *=*

By: apu

apu — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:06:25 +0000

It’s a bit like when an Apple computer joins a Windows network and reports its OS as “Windows NT 4.9 Server”

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000

If I were apple, i’d let it continue that way. Then when it messes up, apple doesn’t have to employ the people to take the heat from frustrated customers :)

If the company wants offical support, then let them pay apple for the deal. otherwise i think getting at it any way you can should be kosher.

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:23:47 +0000

o, my big smile smiley didn’t survive the lowercase treatment of course :/

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:22:42 +0000

Palm can say that the apple ads encourages you to call yourself an apple! :D

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:29:30 +0000

Lots of good and thoughtful comments.

Let the lawsuits begin!

By: nave.notnilc

nave.notnilc — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:04:57 +0000

I’m with mark here, I don’t see how Palm thought they could get away with this. they knew that Apple would do anything to kill their support for iTunes, and doing something illegal is just giving fodder to Apple’s lawyers

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:33:22 +0000

I think it is under circumstances illegal to wilfully bypass security to gain access without permission, so in that sense a lawyer with the gift of gab could sell it as illegal.

By: lchurch2

lchurch2 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:24:48 +0000

I have a version of ptunes for my Palm Tungstun E2 that Syncs with Itunes and Itunes identifies it as a first generation Ipod. hmmmmm.

By: doomstalk

doomstalk — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:13:23 +0000

whengreg: That’s the Sega Genesis/Megadrive you’re thinking of. It was slightly different there, since Sega’s lockout code was literally “S E G A”, which they used as the basis for a copyright complaint ( http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade)against Accolade (they lost). They added the “Produced under license from…” message to later revisions of the firmware, which was upheld as valid. The issue with the NES was much more clear cut. The American/European versions of the Famicom contained a lockout chip called 10NES ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10NES ) to prevent unauthorized software. Tengen copied its code in its entirety, and were sued for copyright infringement as a result. Since they copied non-functional portions of the 10NES code, they lost a copyright infringement suit brought by Nintendo.