USB Implementers Forum replies to Palm's complaint about Apple

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12 points·pieter··4 comments

Simple solution: Palm should make the ID field a text box in a preferences screen somewhere. It would default to the correct "Palm" ID, but hey, if the user wants to change it...

What if USB-IF authority is flushed down the tube. I am still rooting for palm. If palm wins this war we might finally see some good apple contenders. :P

This kind of stupid fruitless horseplay does not in any way contribute to the emergence of "some good apple contenders". What is needed is companies who are willing to put the effort to figure out what would make their customers satisfied and then turn it into a product. Look at the Zune HD and its Zune jukebox software and Zune marketplace - Microsoft took Apple's successful model, improved slightly on the implementation, mainly esthetically not functionally, but still, and made a great "apple contenders".

I give you that.

Palm should invest more into software like songbird. Shit, palm should buy them and throw money at them. Songbird is meant to start of working like iTunes, but add support for MTP and such, is cross platform (makes developers happy), already has support for iPod, now all that is needed is support for Palm and a good marketing push.

You are right, Palm should not be trying to scratch away at apple's skin with a rubber band, but instead go for the arteries with a nice sharp knife.

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