Apple's Ping Social Network Officially Closes

[Roessnakhan]

 

[BJB Productions]

I'm sure I'm the only one who saw that coming the day it came out. 🙄

 

[tkermit]

Sometimes you actually get what you hope for. 🙂

 

[nrose101]

Lets have a moment of silence in Ping's honor....



..it was a good try Apple

 

[chr1s60]

Ping was a failure from the start. I don't see why Apple even released it. I don't think I knew anyone that actually used it. Maybe some of the people that fail to remember that anything ever failed under Jobs will see this a realize that maybe Apple wasn't perfect before Cook was in charge.

 

[AirThis]

Never really understood the concept behind ping. Won't miss it.

 

[Patriks7]

Damn what a bit loss 🙁

 

[fel10]

I think this is conclusive evidence that social media is dead, as if apple can't make it work then no-one else can!

Hmmm you are joking right?

 

[Jman13]

I think this is conclusive evidence that social media is dead, as if apple can't make it work then no-one else can!

Except, well, all the people that have made it work. I think that the 950,000,000 Facebook users might disagree that social media is dead.

 

[dscuber9000]

I just opened iTunes and saw it was still there, and then right in front of my two eyes it disappeared forever. It was such a happy feeling. 😀

 

[parish]

It may have gone from the Store menu, but it's still showing in the sidebar under STORE (although it throws an Unknown Error (-50) if you click it)

 

[jamojamo]

Why am I not surprised that 20 or so posts in and not one began with

"As an avid user of Ping I will miss....."


Ping can now rest comfortably next to the Newton and compare "If only"stories 🙂

 

[milo]

The updated media application will show albums in a grid interface with song listings unfolding below the album cover art when clicked.

It's not out yet, and I already know I'll never use the grid view. Ever.

And it's October now, I wonder if the update will be end of the month or sooner.

 

[Small White Car]

Ping and the original iMac hockey puck mouse.

The 2 Apple products that I've never seen anyone, anywhere, ever defend.

 

[samcraig]

Ping and Poke. Both start with P and are four letter words that had little to no purpose.

 

[iapplelove]

What's ping?

 

[unplugme71]

I liked ping. No sarcasm.

 

[tkermit]

Ping and the original iMac hockey puck mouse.

The 2 Apple products that I've never seen anyone, anywhere, ever defend.

Wish I could say the same thing...

Ping is potentially the single most significant innovation to advance the promotion of recorded music since radio.

 

[TsunamiTheClown]

Whoah! Apple had a social network?

/s

 

[Lazlow]

Now, if Apple would do the same things with Maps...

 

[samcraig]

Wish I could say the same thing...

tkermit wins the internet for today. With the notation that he went after an easy target.

 

[topmounter]

LOL... and all this time I thought "Ping" was how iTunes found AE's and ATV's on your home LAN 😱

 

[verniesgarden]

Lets have a moment of silence in Ping's honor....



..it was a good try Apple

I think the moment of silence was advocated for 2 years by everyone that used ping 😛

 

[scrap104]

Used it for a few days when it first came out and then stop using it ever since. It will not be missed.

 

[APlotdevice]

I never once used Ping, and now I never will.

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Ping can now rest comfortably next to the Newton and compare "If only"stories 🙂

I think the Pippin may be a more appropriate comparison.