We all remember Apple’s advisory warning that they do not plan to support third-party devices that claim to synchronize with iTunes. Well, Palm confirmed late yesterday that Pre owners can no longer use Apple’s iTunes to sync their smartphones to Macs or PCs.

Apple updated iTunes to Version 8.2.1 today, and in its usual cryptic style, said that the new version “provides a number of important bug fixes and addresses an issue with verification of Apple devices.” Pre users quickly began reporting on Palm’s support forum that the reference to “verification of Apple devices” meant iTunes syncing was broken.

This news doesn’t actually hit all that hard to those already using DoubleTwist for Palm Pre Media sync. I recommend that you use it too, at least until this issue gets sorted out. It may just be a long time though, but you also have the option of just not updating iTunes. Mac users may also want to check out The Missing Sync for Pre.

[Via Precentral]