The bad news for today is that Apple updated iTunes to iTunes 8.2.1, putting an end to the Palm Pre-iTunes synchronization. In May, before the official release of Palm Pre, Palm executives stated that iTunes will work with their product. In their opinion, Palm Pre was an iPod.

Last month, Apple sent out a warning under the form of a knowledge base article in which it clearly stated that it will not tolerate unsupported third-party digital media players. As from today, with the iTunes update, Apple makes good on its warning and “disables devices falsely pretending to be iPods”.

There are many opinions on blogs and forums and although many users blame Apple for this, some blame Palm for attempting to use another company’s proprietary software. In the end, there is some good news. Palm Pre users can use the “doubleTwist” software to keep their product synched with iTunes. Other options include not updating iTunes and rolling back to the previous version of iTunes.

The iTunes version before this update is 8.2 and it can be downloaded from archives of out-of-date software. In the end, it looks like Palm Pre users still have a chance with iTunes. But for how long?