This. Social networking crap has gotten out of control, now they're trying to put it in my media player. For me, Ping is a completely ridiculous and unnecessary addition to iTunes. What a disappointment...
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Apple Releases iTunes 10 With 'Ping' Social Networking for Music
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This. Social networking crap has gotten out of control, now they're trying to put it in my media player. Ping is a completely ridiculous and unnecessary addition to iTunes. What a disappointment...
No one is forcing you to use it. Parental block yourself.
PPC is a different architecture to Intel, XP runs on Intel and is 'easier' to code for and support.
Sorry, but it's time you upgraded.
If it can't run 10.5 that means your computer is from 2002 or earlier as my 2002 PM G4 could run 10.5...
This. Social networking crap has gotten out of control, now they're trying to put it in my media player. Ping is a completely ridiculous and unnecessary addition to iTunes. What a disappointment...
Great logic, chief! You don't need it, so it's ridiculous and unnecessary?
That goes for all apps? Maybe you don't use Curves in Photoshop, so having it there is ridiculous and unnecessary?
This. Social networking crap has gotten out of control, now they're trying to put it in my media player. Ping is a completely ridiculous and unnecessary addition to iTunes. What a disappointment...
you can probably just hide it, like you can various other icons on that panel, so whats the problem? lol. love the fact people complain about something that they will just be able to ignore!
I know i will use the PING feature alot. Me and my friends have pretty diverse music tastes and when i get stuck in a music RUT i can use this to see what they are listening to.
PING FTW!!!
PING FTW!!!
Volume
everyone seems to comment the traffic lights, but noone cares about the ugly volume slider that frightened away the stylish old one.
or is it just me thinking so?
everyone seems to comment the traffic lights, but noone cares about the ugly volume slider that frightened away the stylish old one.
or is it just me thinking so?
It'll happen today!
Well, at least within the next 2 hours here, otherwise, SJ was not right about the "today".
Btw, (why) is the Ping/Pong for Apple users only? And not even a web-based app?! hmmm... Anyways, it will bring loads of $$$, and that's for sure!
Aaaad, I guess last.fm is not very happy right now....
Ping really seems like Apple is trying to revive it's Genius tool. Genius was *supposed* to be this great recommendation tool, quickly making playlists and suggesting new music based on what other people listened to. Only it sucked and suggested the crappiest crap, usually based on music that was so base and common there was no point in even researching it, let alone actually listening to it.
Now Ping is based on social networking, or letting you tell iTunes who your friends are so they can try to make suggestions on that.
Ultimately this sounds like Apple is still trying to catch up to freakin' Amazon's "People also bought" and "Recommendations" database. There are so many tools for finding similar music, from Pandora to Last.fm and more, that a feature that will require a lot of effort for no payoff will fall flat. Social networking works when there's little effort involved, which is why Facebook works so well (you can get a lot from Facebook with only an account and a single friend, since others will friend you for you and you just have to click a few times). Something that will require you to track down friends in a closed system? Pfft. Maybe if iTunes had a web-based platform, but I never use the store anymore because I can't even shop for music in different tabs. It's the slowest, most annoying way to buy music online, and Ping isn't going to do much to change that.
Now Ping is based on social networking, or letting you tell iTunes who your friends are so they can try to make suggestions on that.
Ultimately this sounds like Apple is still trying to catch up to freakin' Amazon's "People also bought" and "Recommendations" database. There are so many tools for finding similar music, from Pandora to Last.fm and more, that a feature that will require a lot of effort for no payoff will fall flat. Social networking works when there's little effort involved, which is why Facebook works so well (you can get a lot from Facebook with only an account and a single friend, since others will friend you for you and you just have to click a few times). Something that will require you to track down friends in a closed system? Pfft. Maybe if iTunes had a web-based platform, but I never use the store anymore because I can't even shop for music in different tabs. It's the slowest, most annoying way to buy music online, and Ping isn't going to do much to change that.
I disagree i think the concept of PING will pretty much be like meeting random strangers that you share a affinity for and becoming friends thats way via ping. For example none of my facebook friends use Last.fm.
When i started using that the "Friends" i had on their were total strangers from all over the world. We just happen to share common music tastes. Facebook is more for people who are friends in real life. I've never gotten a request from a total stranger on their VS myspace where it's just ghetto.
Ping is gonna be awesome.
I dunno, it downloads straight from Apple, looks like a mac package of sorts.
The actual non-bit.ly'd address is:
http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...std3GbJgM3xTt9VBpKmyVhPSKLWYP5SGx/iTunesX.tar
Not defensive, just thought it was a bit silly labeling something new, that others may like, and that is related to the product they're peddling, ridiculous and unnecessary.
As others have said, you can simply not open it, so I'm sure it won't bug you much.9.2.1 is available from Apple too.