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In this week's episode of The Apple Context Machine, Jeff and Bryan discuss Microsoft's retail store opening in Scottsdale, AZ, the turf war between Apple and Palm Pre over third-party iTunes support, and the iTablet as an Ebook reader.

By sam mcloughln From John] Hi Sammy, hope you had a great weekend, like some of your other readers, I'm getting bored of downloading iTunes updates that only exist to disable Palm Pre syncing. Maybe if the Pre community were to join forces then we would convince Apple to stop disabling iTunes syncing. [From...

Bad news for those running Snow Leopard on their netbooks--Apple is pulling another Palm Pre, cutting off the operating system's support for the Intel Atom processor. OS X Daily has this to say about the 10.6.2 update, StellaRolla recommends staying with 10.6.1 (or 10.5.8 if you're running Leo...

By Jon Albert Hey guys Jon here. I just wanted to weigh in on the Palm Pre. I have been with the iPhone since its beginning. However, I was tired of the over priced lack of bars in more places service. But I did take my iPhone to T-mobile and loved it. A few things like 3g and visual voicemail were missing but i was fin...

By sam mcloughln From Juan Whatley] Message to Apple, stop being selfish and allow other people to use the technology behind iTunes so we can all benefit. Blocking Pre users like myself is just stupid, you are selfish and pissing us off. Not everyone wants an iPhone. Palm Pre is far superior so allow us to be abl...

By sam mcloughln From Antonio Talese] Sammy I got to play with a Palm Pre this morning, I do love my iPhone but Apple need to be checking what their competitors are up to. The Pre is superior in a lot of ways and I'm not sure whether Palm have the energy to survive but they are kicking up a good fight and the Palm Pre i...

Apple offered up iTunes 9.0.2 yesterday. The main reason for the update... Apple offered up iTunes 9.0.2 yesterday. The main reason for the update...

iTunes 9.0.2 disables Palm Pre synching yet again, according to a report from pre|central.net. Apple and Palm have been involved in a back and forth tussle for months, with Palm using spoofing techniques to trick iTunes into recognizing the device for syncing, and Apple releasing iTunes up...

By sam mcloughln From Eric Mann] The latest update to iTunes breaks the Palm Pre sync.....once again."Apple today released iTunes 9.0.2, a minor update aimed at providing support for today’s Apple TV 3.0 software update. While they were at it, Apple also killed Palm’s webOS Media Sync dead. We’ve speculated before...

By sam mcloughln From Eric Mann] top10.co.uk lists ten reasons to get a Pre over an iPhone. "Not sure if you want to be an iClone? Veering towards a Palm Pre instead? Read our Top 10 reasons why the Pre trumps Apple’s handsets to help you make your mind up… 1 iPhones are already ubiquitous. And they’re about to get e...

By sam mcloughln From Hannah at Proporta] The Palm Pre, about to be released in Britain and on sale in America since June, has been billed as the first mobile phone that can really take on the iPhone…and win.  Whether or not this really is “the iPhone killer” remains to be seen, but it sure is pretty and somethi...

By Nilay Patel We've already seen the iPhone 3GS handily win an ARM Cortex A8-powered browsing bakeoff against the Palm Pre, but now that a few more devices have hit the scene with the processor it's time for another round, don't you think? Pocketables certainly does, and they've pitted the 3GS against...

By news@ilounge.com (Charles Starrett) Apple has released iTunes 8.2.1, its latest update to its digital media management software. According to Apple’s release notes, in addition to providing “a number of important bug fixes, the release “addresses an issue with verification of Apple devices,” which could be a reference to P...

By Dylan Tweney Then there was CES 2009, the massive tradeshow that the Gadget Lab crew spent most of the last week covering. We talk about some of the show's coolest gadgets, including the Palm Pre, the new Sony Vaio Lifestyle PC, and an interesting new touchscreen netbook from Asus. Then, of course, there...