Apple Ping unfriends meanie Facebook Ping, Apple's latest foray into social networking, won't play nice with Facebook - despite the connection appearing in Steve Jobs's on-stage demonstration and in the documentation. Facebook integration was obviously planned, and references persist in the application and documentation - some early adopters even report being …
Steve jobs and his leigon of orks woulds never:
- force you to sign up to every new edition of the T&C's to 'purchase' anything - even free apps - from the store
- force you to trawl through 34 F*ING PAGES of said T&C's if viewed on an ipad. No wonder people just click through without reading. I think I wore a trench in my ipad screen, and my index finger is down to the bone.
F* you Steve with your f*ing leigon of orks/lawyers...and f* you too, other for-profit tech orgs with your outrageous, arse-covering, rights-violating T&C's - you're just as bad.
Pin-less grenade supositories for the lot of them.
...I got a Flash site about a Golf club manufacters called 'Ping'
As much as I love Apple, I think Ping is made of fail!
Leo Laporte showed his Ping was saying he was a fan of lots of ganster rappers! (It's because he's teenaged son uses his iTunes account to buy music)
Ping is lame, lame, lame. Also the iTunes 10 interface sucks out loud. They actually made it look WORSE. Jesus! Back to the drawing board, Stevie-boy.
As Microsoft has shown with Bing (Mmm now Ping, await the launch by someone of Ming) throwing money at these things does not mean you will overthrow the incumbent. Social network sites only work if you have a large enough fraction if people using it, yes lots of people have itunes but how many will go to the effort of duplicating their contacts with Ping just so they can discuss music?
It's built into iTunes, therefore anyone with an iPod can join it by clicking a button.
There are a lot of iPod owners out there, lots of iPad and iPhone users too. So that's a lot of people with iTunes installed who can just click a button and use it.
As we've seen with Internet Explorer, if something is there and you don't have to do much to use it that many people will. With social networking you have all the hassle of signing up.
That said, I don't like the iTunes store navigation (which is what Ping uses), it's slow and a web version would be so much better.
I do not need another social network. Facebook works just fine and if Apple is ruling out the LARGEST social site on the web then I have nothing else to say...
I can barely handle working with people who use Apple products at work so why would I want to socialize with them during my off time?
The verbal masturbation that will be occurring in Apples cloud warehouse, bang in the middle of the Bible Belt will likely defy anyones imagination. The similarities between Apples latest fund raising effort and the evangelical church movement is striking.
Undoubtedly Jobs will be posting his 'treasured' snippets of Apple wisdom to keep the faithful happy.
How many moderators will it need to keep the faithful on the straight and narrow?
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