Apple has recently put the kibosh on The Pal Pre’s desire to be able to sync iTunes on their devices. Now there are always work around but it’s interesting that Apple would rather block the usage of iTunes syncing and forgo the revenue that would be generated from allowing it. I would think that they would get more revenue from this since many other devices allow the syncing of iTunes and no one is going to buy the iPhone simply due to it’s ability to sync Apple encoded songs.
Apple is just suborned. Even Steve Jobs said that one of their problems was partnering with other companies.