Apple has finally acknowledgedwhat the market has been telling it since it first debuted Ping, its social network for music, in September of 2010. The service is a failure.
And rather than continue to maintain Ping, the company is abandoning it and using its partnerships with Twitter and Facebook to make its various software and service offerings social in a way that consumers actually care about.
Citing source close to Apple," All Things Digital says Apple's Ping will be no more, when the company rolls out the next major release of iTunes.Now that the company is injecting Facebook into the very core of iOS and Twitter into the Mac? Nowhere, which is why it will be deep-sixed when iOS 6 arrives, a new report asserts.The launch of Apple's music-centric social network within iTunes 10 is largely considered one of Apple's recent missteps. The feature lets users post music tracks and albums to a feed to which other users can subscribe, viewing them from within iTunes on the desktop and on iOS devices.
And rather than continue to maintain Ping, the company is abandoning it and using its partnerships with Twitter and Facebook to make its various software and service offerings social in a way that consumers actually care about.
Citing source close to Apple," All Things Digital says Apple's Ping will be no more, when the company rolls out the next major release of iTunes.Now that the company is injecting Facebook into the very core of iOS and Twitter into the Mac? Nowhere, which is why it will be deep-sixed when iOS 6 arrives, a new report asserts.The launch of Apple's music-centric social network within iTunes 10 is largely considered one of Apple's recent missteps. The feature lets users post music tracks and albums to a feed to which other users can subscribe, viewing them from within iTunes on the desktop and on iOS devices.
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