In a surprising move by Palm after its many “cat-and-mouse” games with Apple, the company has not included iTunes syncing capabilities in the latest version of its smartphone operating system. Palm’s webOS has been syncing on and off with iTunes since the release of the Palm Pre earlier this year by presenting itself as an iPod in order to trick iTunes into recognizing it as a valid syncable device.

As most of you probably know, Apple recently released iPhone 3.1 beta 2 to developers to play with. Along with some bugs fixes and improvements in code, this update features the breaking of the IPCC hack we saw that enabled tethering for AT&T early on the iPhone. Since AT&T won’t be supporting iPhone tethering until later in the year for an undetermined price, this is sort of a bummer for the people who found this workaround useful.

An Apple support ticket this week titled “iTunes: About unsupported third-party digital media players” warned of possible issues when using third party hardware with iTunes. Although this isn’t news in and of itself, as Apple has only let their products sync with iTunes since its existence, it is interesting to see it released right as the Palm Pre came out. Palm was touting this as a feature with the Pre, and it seemed to work really well for those who had it, at first. However…