In a Microsoft-esque move, Apple disabled syncing to the Palm Pre in iTunes with an update issued Wednesday. Now, anyone looking to use the Pre as an MP3 player will need look elsewhere for a program to load music onto the device.

Considering the majority of people use iTunes, this is a major handicap for the Pre. Apple is trying to push smartphone shoppers into buying the iPhone. Of course, Pre owners can always use another program to manage their music or drag-and-drop songs directly, but this would be a major inconvenience for those with large iTunes libraries.

Rather than try to improve its product and compete in fair manner, Apple is hurting users in order to increase iPhone sales. Like the only kid in the neighborhood with a basketball who takes it away halfway through a game when things don’t go his way, Cupertino is turning into quite the little bitch.

Source | iWon News (Thanks Sebastian)