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Apple Announces One Million Ping Users in First Two Days
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I see either this occurring, or just the contrary. Apple will build upon Ping, and with time, it just might expand to serve as a replacement to Facebook, just how iTunes grew from tunes to multi-media.
Remember, this is just a very slight taste; Apple is putting their feelers out.
Even if that is the case, they include an option to make your profile private, which prevents people from seeing anything on your profile other than maybe your photo (which you choose). It does not even show others who you follow, etc, so unless you accept someone to follow you they have no way of knowing anything at all about you. Big deal, your name could be found in the database if someone searched for it, but they would get absolutely nothing about you if you have it set private. Seems pretty acceptable if you want privacy. It is not like anyone is forcing you to keep your profile public.
oh wow
Typical Ping user will end up....you guessed it....12 year old girls
They can Ping each other over the latest Justin Bieber release.....
Facebook and MySpace (and now Ping) are just ways for people to pry into your lives and for hordes of people to waste their time.
I love NOT being "hip"........
Typical Ping user will end up....you guessed it....12 year old girls
They can Ping each other over the latest Justin Bieber release.....
Facebook and MySpace (and now Ping) are just ways for people to pry into your lives and for hordes of people to waste their time.
I love NOT being "hip"........
I'm thinking that was somewhat defensive/preemptive. The stakes were probably too high for both sides to let it go to court. Ping apparently had the trademark for social networks, but didn't use it for that, I thought one had to actually use a trademark in a field claimed in the filing. I really don't think there's any chance for confusion between the two brands anyway.
How exactly do you let a product "grow" without releasing the product in the first place Einstein?
There once was a time when people cared about the sound and quality of music. Now it all a frikken reality show with cheap ass MP3s. GO LOSSLESS at least!!!
Also it's about the music, the songs the sound. Not what they ate for breakfast or who they boffed. Follow the tunes. LISTEN!!
Remember when two Zune* users could squirt each other? Sort of like pinging.
* except there have never been two Zune users.
* except there have never been two Zune users.
Ping? Pong Gone
Like a Lemming, I downloaded and installed ITunes 10. Found Ping, signed in, and there wasn't much you can do with it, didn't see the point of the cosmetic changes, so I've restored ITunes 9. Ping is stillborn IMO.
But it has got me thinking about what I want from a music player, so I'm trawling the net now looking at alternatives.
Like a Lemming, I downloaded and installed ITunes 10. Found Ping, signed in, and there wasn't much you can do with it, didn't see the point of the cosmetic changes, so I've restored ITunes 9. Ping is stillborn IMO.
But it has got me thinking about what I want from a music player, so I'm trawling the net now looking at alternatives.
Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A400 Safari/6531.22.7)
I haven't downloaded iTunes 10 just yet. I'm not terribly sold on the Ping idea. I feel like it will eventually be used as a marketing tool and I already feel that I am marketed too way much.
I haven't downloaded iTunes 10 just yet. I'm not terribly sold on the Ping idea. I feel like it will eventually be used as a marketing tool and I already feel that I am marketed too way much.
Hehe....you've got waaay too much confidence in Apple. Sorry, but this is going to flop big time. You cant release such a limiting social network to so many people at once. It doesn't matter if they improve on it. The damage is done when people first log on, find its got nothing (content/feature wise) and close it, never to be opened again.
C'mon guys, face facts - Apple screwed up and will now have another failure to add to their portfolio.
It's crap, period.
Edit: oh, and 1 million users....thats bugger all! Facebook has 500 million and MySpace has 12 million.
100% agreed. Although I have to say after finding a few of my favorite artists on Ping, it is pretty cool to see what music they like, and see them post about what they are working on.
Granted, these artists are very unknown, and they don't have "artist profiles" on Ping (yet, and they probably never will appear in the "artists we recommend you follow" list) so it's kind of a weak implementation at the moment, but the concept is cool.
If Ping expanded beyond the iTunes Store and implemented itself more directly in the iTunes client, and added a bunch more features, it could be really fun.
Right now it's not really worth the time, but I guess they have to start somewhere.
I would much rather them release music in lossless than do this though.
Why can't we make a status? We can make a status if we include an album, but its not like Facebook.
Perhaps nobody cares?
Seriously, social networks are so 2007. I do not want to know what other people have bought from iTunes, and I certainly don't want anyone to know what I've bought. Friends in far away countries? Email or even Facetime them.
Of course, if people are happy to spread their private information all over the internet that's up to them, but it's not for me.
I think you misunderstand the "pull" factor of social networks. When Twitter first started not a lot of people used it and so it was pretty lacking in content and features. Eventually it started getting enough "gravity" and people started to use it more, and suddenly it exploded into a huge service. Granted it's no Facebook, but even FB started out kind of the same way.
You simply can't launch a social service and expect it to be full of features and content right away, it is more something you revise over and over until you start to get something right, and then the popularity comes to you.
Granted, you still need cool concepts to keep some users on it, but also having a popular brand like iTunes helps a lot to keep some people using it during the initial phase.
Also if Apple doesn't react quick enough to implement new features and content then it definitely will start to fade away, you need to give people a carrot on a stick or they won't keep coming, even if it's a small group of people at first.
All these negative comments are making me laugh.
C'mon, the service has only been out for two days! Give it some time ... like at least a week.
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