Some users of Palm Inc. Smartphone’s are upset that the new Snow Leopard operating system won’t sync Apple Inc. computers with Palm OS devices, calling it Apple’s payback for the Palm’s sync of iTunes to the Palm Pre.

While the Palm OS is being retired by Palm, there are still many customers using the Palm Treo Pro, the Centro and older Palm devices, which run the Palm OS. Some have used earlier versions of the Apple OS X to synchronize their home computers with their smartphones for access to e-mail, contacts, calendars and other applications.

Officials at Apple and Palm could not be reached to comment, but that hasn’t stopped Palm OS customers from blogging about the problem and pointing fingers at either company.

One post by Jeff O’Connor at Appscout.com called the move "retaliation [by Apple] for Palm enabling the Pre to sync natively with iTunes."

But Andrew Self shot back, asking why it is Apple’s responsibility to maintain a synchronization for the Palm OS, which Palm isn’t making any more. Palm has stated that its future will be on the WebOS, which runs the Palm Pre that was released in June . "Shouldn’t the burden be on Palm to provide sync options, not Apple?" he asked.

Others questioned whether there really is retaliation by Apple over the iTunes debacle that has gone on for months.

Snow Leopard Won’t Sync With Palm OS – PC World