You had to know this was coming. The Palm Pre, the only non Apple device to sync directly with iTunes, can do so no more.

iTunes 8.2.1 (released today) breaks the ability of the Palm Pre to pretend it’s an iPod and sync with Apple’s iTunes software. The Pre had this ability because when put into media sync mode it actually told iTunes that it was an iPod. Well one of the so called “fixes” of 8.2.1 was an update to how Apple identifies it’s hardware for sync. *Poof*

The question is now, can Palm simply push an update through it’s system to fix what Apple broke? And do they really want to start that sort of cat and mouse tactic with Apple?

iTunes Syncing is a big feature of the palm Pre, so I would think Palm has to do something, to avoid a flurry of angry people who are dependent on iTunes for their media. But the safer road may be to just come out with their own software based syncing solution.

What do you think? Will Palm send an Pre Update to fix this? Release their own syncing software to work with iTunes? Or just pretend this never happened.