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Apple-Facebook Controversy Over Ping Rooted in API Usage, Feature May Return
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LOL!
This is Facebook we're talking about, right?
LOL!
(Perhaps Ballmer just cut them a check to be the Official Social Network of the Windows Phone 7 Music Marketplace?)
It comes with their marching orders.
You took the words right out of my mouth
Not being a native English speaker I might get it too literally but it sounds really disgusting
<fanboy>Facebook's dying anyway, just like google</fanboy>
Well hopefully they will reach an agreement on this soon which I suspect they will, Apple will use a ton of resources so they should pay facebook to compensate for the huge resource demand they will create.
Well hopefully they will reach an agreement on this soon which I suspect they will, Apple will use a ton of resources so they should pay facebook to compensate for the huge resource demand they will create.
*shrug* This is what Starcraft 2 did -- and how I found most of my b.net buddies. Kinda convenient.
And what are the odds that Apple can't quickly turn-key their own Social Networking juggernaut?
If anyone took a minute to look it up, Facebook limits API accesses to 100 million calls/day.
Geez Apple, first you hose over iPhone G3 owners for two and a half months, and then you can't take a few minutes to think though how many times you're going to access Facebook's APIs??? Come on Apple, this ain't rocket science.
Geez Apple, first you hose over iPhone G3 owners for two and a half months, and then you can't take a few minutes to think though how many times you're going to access Facebook's APIs??? Come on Apple, this ain't rocket science.
Without FB this Ping-thing will die pretty soon. Btw Spotify (with FB integration of course) kicks iTunes ass big time here in europe.
No Apple over used an authorized API.
To use the API in the first place they needed a Key so they were authorized, at least to start with.
Facebook likely have limits on how much demand each Key is allowed to generate before it gets cut by an automated process.
Still some what funny.
They should have had the deal in place.
Sorry about the CAPS...
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I think Apple pulled a brilliant PR stunt here: give iTunes 10 users a hint/heads-up on the FB and Twitter links to Ping, knowing they would have to pull it PDQ.
Now let the iTunes public call-out FB on being mean to iTunes users, many of whom may already be FB users.
Aqua is finally fading away
I think it's pretty weird that Apple made the close/max/min button group vertical in iTunes. iTunes has been Apple's test bed for future Mac OS X GUI elements for years, so that may become the standard in Mac OS X in the future.
iTunes already has new monochromatic, "matte finish" icons, sliders, and buttons (except for the close/max/min buttons.) Gradually that monochrome + matte look will probably spread to Safari, Mail, and Mac OS X itself. It's a more "mature" look than the "shiny gummi worm" Aqua look, and it draws less attention to itself. That's good. The user's attention should be on apps and data, not on shiny buttons.
I also think it's interesting that Apple can turn the Facebook linking on and off without forcing users to download new versions of iTunes. There could be other features already in iTunes that Apple hasn't enabled yet...
I think it's pretty weird that Apple made the close/max/min button group vertical in iTunes. iTunes has been Apple's test bed for future Mac OS X GUI elements for years, so that may become the standard in Mac OS X in the future.
iTunes already has new monochromatic, "matte finish" icons, sliders, and buttons (except for the close/max/min buttons.) Gradually that monochrome + matte look will probably spread to Safari, Mail, and Mac OS X itself. It's a more "mature" look than the "shiny gummi worm" Aqua look, and it draws less attention to itself. That's good. The user's attention should be on apps and data, not on shiny buttons.
I also think it's interesting that Apple can turn the Facebook linking on and off without forcing users to download new versions of iTunes. There could be other features already in iTunes that Apple hasn't enabled yet...
Haha, just watch.
Since Facebook has decided to block Ping, Mac OS X will now have a security update issued that essentially blocks Facebook.
Thank God!!!!! *dreams*
I think it saves a bit of window height by eliminating the button-dedicated top row and leveraging the horizontal space instead. Smart move indeed, though looks awkward after 10 years of Aqua/Apple Human User Interface Guidelines.
I don't think most apps/finder windows can make good use of the feature, though: only those with a tall enough tool row at the top (Xcode? Preview?)
Let's all jump on the " I hate Facebook" bandwagon because it's the new in thing. As said earlier, Spotify with the FB plugin is a big success by the looks of it with people on my friend list, and the friend lists of my friends. Listen to a good tune or playlist, send to FB, sharing with all your friends. Another thing, I don't know anyone at all that uses iTunes for anything other than backups and restores of iPhones as for media purposes, it's crap. With FB integration it may sway more people to use it, without it, it is still gonna either be loved or hated.
That would require the fanboys and girls to accept apple is doing wrong.
iTunes ping would access facebook well over the 100 mil call/day limit. Since it is getting that high it requires a special agreement. One apple is clearly not willing to play ball in. To me this just tell me it is type Apple arrogates. The fanboys and girls will blame facebook and not bother looking at the facts.
Nope, everyone has always hated facebook. The internet is choc full of facebook hates, have a looksee.
They are when it is concerning using it as property to sell and make money off of.
If I remember correctly, the original creator of the Facebook for iPhone application was denied access by Apple to private APIs within iOS, so he had to recreate some of the UI functionality from scratch.
I wonder if this is some kind of retribution?
Try and get the facts straight first. He wasn't "denied" access, they were not available in the first place.
I believe iTunes kinda loads a webpage over the internet, like the AppStore screen. They just have to change the HTML code at the server side.