It has been reported around the Web recently that the Palm Pre will be capable of syncing with iTunes and will show up as an "iPod" when plugged into a Mac. This makes a lot of sense to everyone since many the Pre staff are ex-Apple employess and the creator of the iPod is the main man on the Pre.

This of course pissed off Apple completely and a war of words has ensued between the Palm Pre camp and the Apple corps (pun intended). A rather heated exchange of words at that. Man o man, the marketing geniuses at Palm are really good. They have been mustering any and all the attention the can. From reports of a lack of phone availability on the launch date, to this latest iTunes development, Genius.

I discovered today, over at Crunchgear, that it is HIGHLY unlikely that the Apple corps will allow anything to be described as an "iPod" as is what is reported happens when plugging the Pre into a Mac to sync with iTunes. In fact it is said they are already drafting legal letters!

It appears as though the the People at Palm are attempting to push Apple to open up their iTunes format to allow other phones to access the iTunes database.