It turns every story about new versions of itunes into a story also about the pre. It also helps remind people how far Apple's strayed from their "think different" philosophy.

>Really, any semi-serious user already knows many ways to sync
>music and video to the phone and NEVER use itunes.

Also, with over-the-air purchase from Amazon (now even over the cellular network), most users never need to sync with anything at all.

>But, they
>lised it as a feature, so they have to figure out gow to keep
>it for those too lazy or scared to use something else.

I don't know if they have to. They've clearly put up a good fight, and they've clearly made the case to the Pre users that this is about Apple breaking itunes functionality, not about Palm breaking Pre functionality.

>If they do fix it with the next update, and it happens to be
>in the next few days, why didn't they just wait?

Word is they had the fix ready two hours after the Itunes update came out. Maybe they're holding off for a little while to haggle with the USB-IF, assuming they even care about the USB-IF.