Palm’s emulation of an iPod is a security risk in iTunes that Palm has exposed and used. It means a foreign device can link up with a Mac to obtain personal information such as address and calendar data and email information, documents, etc.

Of course, Apple will see that this is a security risk. Apple will simply adjust the security of iTunes and the iPod to avoid this risk in the future.

This obviously would block Palm’s claimed iTunes compatibility.

Palm’s customers would then be livid.

Since Palm is already using Linux as a base operating system, it should simply modify the open source application, Songbird (an iTunes clone), to give it a desktop application which it can synchronize with rather than going with the very iffy, lazy, and customer pissing hack of using iTunes. This would be cleaner and more dignified.