Palm Pre to Connect Seamlessly to iTunes

 
At the AllthingsD conference at 28th May 2009, John Rubistein and Roger McNammee were ready to answer some of Walt Mossberg's questions about Palm's history, their success (e.g. share price) since announcement of webOS and their latest product innovation - the Palm Pre.

Apart from who hired whom and why and that Palm today is a new company, John came to the more interesting things and unveiled some news about the Palm Pre.
(A) Apart from being connected to Amazon's music catalog, the Palm Pre connects and syncs to iTunes out-of-the-box (actually it registeres itself as an iPod on the Desktop... *Boom*)
(B) The Palm Apps Store starts with a dozen of applications, but Roger promised more to come very soon
(C) iTunes and Applications under webOS are decoupled, which means no iTunes control of other Apps (e.g. deletion, etc.)
(C) Palm Pre comes with a Twitter app

Music bought and downloaded to the Palm Pre can be synced to iTunes on the dektop PC for further listening pleasure.

Palm clearly named Apple and RIM as their primary competitors and also pointed out that software makes the phone differentiating it from others and consumers swap from a feature rich phone to an integrated device, such as the Palm Pre.