Re: iTunes/iPod “lock-in”, Apple wants the best possible experience for users. Rightly or wrongly, they don’t believe that they can guarantee that with third-pa

Re: iTunes/iPod “lock-in”, Apple wants the best possible experience for users. Rightly or wrongly, they don’t believe that they can guarantee that with third-party devices. However, (except for old DRM’d tracks) your entire music library is freely available (including playlist data) to any third-party application that wants to read the library file and music files stored on your hard drive. RIM does this for Blackberry. Palm is either to lazy or stubborn to write their own music management app.