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Lol, funny you say "the world revolves around them and they need to express their ignorant hate" when in fact twitter and facebook exist so people can do just that and think that the world revolves around them and they think everyone wants to know everything they are doing all the time.
I am sick and tired of this attitude.
You don't seem to get it. We don't care if we don't see it. The problem is that Apple has a habit of putting things in places that you can't remove (or you can't remove without Terminal.app incantations first).
This is what annoys us, the fact that we're just trying to use our computers every day and we're being blasted with buttons and widgets in opportune placements that are impossible to avoid.
We haven't logged into anything. We don't intend on logging into anything. Yet the UI controls are still omnipresent, irregardless of our initial choice to try and ignore the stuff.
This "social networking creep" is what we're whining about. The fact that we're being pressured into something we do not want, because it's good for Apple's profit (even though we paid a premium for our machines).
Ping was one of the most obtrusive things I've ever seen in iTunes, even though I never logged into it and never even had an account under it. That goddam "Ping" drop-down menu was ALWAYS present in iTunes unless you started typing random crap into Terminal.app to kill it.
So once again, we're not whining about options. Options are good, I'm all for options.
We're whining about options that we have not opted into, but are being persistently reminded of regardless.
-SC
Anything combining Apple and Twitter is okay in my book. Twitter has something going that facebook does not. I think Twitter has more of a future.
The best thing Apple could do is moving options like Twitter, Facebook, iTunes Store, App Store, videos and any other network stuff (one does not need for playing music, the actual core function of iTunes), into the plugins folder of iTunes.
Anyone who doesn't want something like Twitter then only has to remove the plugin from disk.
Anyone who doesn't want something like Twitter then only has to remove the plugin from disk.
I hope the option to turn it off will rename. I turned off PING so that its not available when I click on an item.
Call me ignorant, but I never understand Twitter. What does it do that Facebook doesn't? Serious question.
I have Twitter account but only use it for some stupid contests and to contact some customer service. All the messy symbols and gestures give me headache. And I have to click links to see longer messages and images.
I have Twitter account but only use it for some stupid contests and to contact some customer service. All the messy symbols and gestures give me headache. And I have to click links to see longer messages and images.
A new report revealed that only a third of users are active on Twitter. That's still over 100 million people, but it shows how many people sign up and then never do anything with the platform. Well, and there's bots...
Just another advertising platform. Social media blew up, and advertising swung in and took it over. That's not an exaggeration. The only reason any company cares about Twitter is simply because its a place people view, where they can stick ads. End of story.
+1 A great post regardless of the use of the word irregardless.
Like you said, we aren't complaining because Apple is providing more options. To the contrary, we're complaining that they aren't giving us the option to hide all the buttons for services we haven't logged into.So because you don't use it means everyone doesn't use it?
Please. Considering Twitter is one of the most popular social networks around, I'd say it's a good idea. I personally love the Twitter integration in ML, actually.
Besides, what makes you think it's going to be added to the iTunes you know. They've already said they're completely redoing the application...
Not likely. I read an article about this just a few days ago (I can't site the source sorry) and twitter CEO stated that they had tons of money.
Twitter is fantastic for "in the last 20 minutes" type stuff.
That's about it.
Facebook is a great tool for keep extended families/friends in touch.
That's about it.
From my perspective, anyway, others have their own.
Glad to see Apple working together with Twitter to bring it's integration more and more into iOS and OS X. I love Twitter and use it every day either to post things myself or to keep informed about things that interest me (mostly technology and web design/development stuff). Twitter is really what you make of it, some people use it to follow Kim Kardishian or Paris Hilton's every move but others use it to read news headlines or follow people and sites that talk about fields that interest them. It is a great tool.
But as far as iTunes goes, I think that to make it really effective with Twitter they would need to make something similar to Last.fm, which scrobbles your music, adds it to your library and then suggests friends and new artists based on the songs you listen to. Something like this that is integrated into iTunes and works in sync with Twitter could work, also if it scrobbles the music you listen to not just in your Mac but in your iOS devices as well (like the Last.fm scrobblers do).
But as far as iTunes goes, I think that to make it really effective with Twitter they would need to make something similar to Last.fm, which scrobbles your music, adds it to your library and then suggests friends and new artists based on the songs you listen to. Something like this that is integrated into iTunes and works in sync with Twitter could work, also if it scrobbles the music you listen to not just in your Mac but in your iOS devices as well (like the Last.fm scrobblers do).
I love it. Social media is part of my everyday work life, and personal also. I quite enjoy the simple ease and the voice dictation of ML. I use twitter to advertise for work, to talk to my friends via DM or fun with hashes, and to gain an upper hand on fantasy football (can't wait btw).
I don't see the need for iTunes, but with ping gone it won't really change the bloat.
Bloat is bad whether you are on a PowerBook or a MacBook Pro Retina. Not only would iTunes not be as efficient with bird poop in it, but it would be more annoying.
I literally killed Ping when I saw it. I disabled it in the parental controls then corrupted its NIB files. If Apple adds more social networking trash to iTunes, it's a good thing that protective parents are there to force there to be parental controls to disable it.
If Apple adds any of this junk and shoves it in my face, I'm going to stop updating my iTunes. Well, it probably wouldn't even work in Snow Leopard anyway.
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^^^ Yes. And I feel bad for anyone who friended my Facebook accounts because I change the names, removed evidence that they were mine, spammed V.G. Varun all over the place, then posted the passwords on my walls for the heck of it. If Facebook won't let me delete an account, I'm going to have to get it banned.
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If you don't like it, don't login. Just quit whining about it.
Yeah, Twitter in iOS was not annoying at all. I never even see it anywhere except in the settings where my name and password are left blank. But Apple has a history of making iTunes very annoying when it comes to social networking (Ping).
I will be perfectly happy if they add Twitter, Facebook, and all the stuff I don't care about into iTunes and have it all be 100% optional with no notifications. That's what they do in iOS, and I'm fine with it.
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Apple did not shove Twitter in our face at all in iOS. Just hope that it's like that in iTunes, and if they do that, you will have nothing to complain about.
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Exactly, but you can always influence your own copy of iTunes by not updating or by messing around with the NIB files and parental controls.
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Jesus will you people calm down
Whats the big deal its just a small api about 300-400kb
and a small little icon,
why are you acting like its a mass murder?
Whats the big deal its just a small api about 300-400kb
and a small little icon,
why are you acting like its a mass murder?
Make their own? When it's so easy to just buy what's already out there?
Haha just kidding
Apple is doing what the masses demand and crave, nothing more. Pro's will always be at the mercy of the masses. My first year in college we had SGI graphics machines, the next year we had Dell's and the Dell's blew the SGI's out of the water in speed... But a close eye revealed the quality of the display was lower, the quality of the real-time rendering was lower, the max triangles you could have in a scene was lower, amongst other things. But it didn't matter because Dell's were way cheaper and for typical purposes, faster. SGI just could not compete on price because they didn't sell enough, and you can't sell if you don't appeal to what people understand. It's similar to the whole MHz-GHz stepping that Intel gave up a few years ago. It took a long time to train people to the fact that higher GHz != more speed.
I suggest giving my signature a second read. You might notice that none of those products actually exist.
PowerBook G5... oh man, that would be an explosive battery time bomb.
Buy twitter
Create an instagram competitor(should have just bought instagram when ya had the chance :/)
Create/buy a fiber or cellular brand
My predictions for the next 5 years
Hope I'm right
Create an instagram competitor(should have just bought instagram when ya had the chance :/)
Create/buy a fiber or cellular brand
My predictions for the next 5 years
Hope I'm right
I just can't find any use for twitter!!
Non of my friends or relatives are there!!
Everyone seem to be on facebook.
Non of my friends or relatives are there!!
Everyone seem to be on facebook.
Yes, they exist primarily because there are many ignorant and/or narcissistic people who happen to have internet access
I love the irony - you imply that only "ignorant and/or narcissistic people" use social networking but to do this you use social networking (this site), and post a narcissistic message!
Steve
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