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Apple's Ping Social Network Officially Closes
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Exactly. Let's stop acting like Apple is infallible. They make great software and hardware, but they also make mistakes. As does any tech company.
I had no idea Ping was Apples own social network. I figured that it just linked to your Facebook, Google+, MySpace and Twitter accounts. Since I thought the idea of letting everyone know what music I am listening to was idiotic I turned it off and never cared to investigate further.
Now knowing it was Apple's own social network. The idea sounds even more idiotic. Although most stuff on iTunes is pretty useless to me. I just use it to store, sort, play and sync music. The only features they added since it's original release that I like was Apple Lossless, improved automatic labeling of Compact Discs and backing up my iOS devices.
The features I do want they never added. Such as a true iTunes server where client computers can connect to the server library and add music globally updating all client libraries with the new entries but make their own local playlists, burn discs and sync iOS devices and iPods on client computers. I figured out a method for doing this but it is laborious and really requires people to only use the server for adding music. Home sharing and shared libraries do not accomplish all of this.
Now knowing it was Apple's own social network. The idea sounds even more idiotic. Although most stuff on iTunes is pretty useless to me. I just use it to store, sort, play and sync music. The only features they added since it's original release that I like was Apple Lossless, improved automatic labeling of Compact Discs and backing up my iOS devices.
The features I do want they never added. Such as a true iTunes server where client computers can connect to the server library and add music globally updating all client libraries with the new entries but make their own local playlists, burn discs and sync iOS devices and iPods on client computers. I figured out a method for doing this but it is laborious and really requires people to only use the server for adding music. Home sharing and shared libraries do not accomplish all of this.
I honestly believe Ping would have been more successful if it had been browser-based. Obviously the lack of Facebook integration hurt it a lot, but having a browser-based social network at least would have allowed us to switch between tabs and access it easily while doing other things online.
And zero craps were given today
Excluding, of course, posters who comment on the story.
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Careful. Don't insult the Profit.
We know what happens when you insult the Profit.
Bad things.
I wasn't even being close to being serious..
Although it is funny how many people think only apple can produce something great, as if they own "awesomeness"
If you'd ask the locals in Cologne, Germany they'd answer you that it is their local dialect and means " PAIN"
Kind of fitting for it
Too much "Revenue Driver" not enough "Social"
Agree with an earlier poster that they messed up not working things out with Facebook integration.
Sharing what you're playing isn't a bad idea. Plenty of people use it on Spotify, and it is actually fairly neat, and sometimes you learn something about your friends and their tastes as well as find new music.
However, with Spotify, people are logging in with Facebook accounts. As well, with Spotify you're on a service that allows free accounts -- you don't need to pay a buck for each song you want to listen to if the name is familiar. Ping just seemed to want to drive you to buy music. I won't spend $1 repeatedly on a whim to hear music a friend is listening to, and I'm not inclined to listen to samples repeatedly.
Basically, I think Apple / iTunes+Ping would've been successful if it had been coupled with a subscription / ad-sponsored competitor to Spotify, as it was, nobody seemed to care to use it.
Agree with an earlier poster that they messed up not working things out with Facebook integration.
Sharing what you're playing isn't a bad idea. Plenty of people use it on Spotify, and it is actually fairly neat, and sometimes you learn something about your friends and their tastes as well as find new music.
However, with Spotify, people are logging in with Facebook accounts. As well, with Spotify you're on a service that allows free accounts -- you don't need to pay a buck for each song you want to listen to if the name is familiar. Ping just seemed to want to drive you to buy music. I won't spend $1 repeatedly on a whim to hear music a friend is listening to, and I'm not inclined to listen to samples repeatedly.
Basically, I think Apple / iTunes+Ping would've been successful if it had been coupled with a subscription / ad-sponsored competitor to Spotify, as it was, nobody seemed to care to use it.
Thank God they are getting rid of Ping. I hated that thing so much.
I realize that it was my own stupidity, but I could never figure out how to turn the stupid thing off. Every time clicked on something that supid Ping window would open up. I had to close it before I could move onto the next thing.
I could turn Genius on and off at will. I kind of liked it giving me recommendations. I found a few songs I had forgotten about.
To be perfectly honest, I never knew the purpose of Ping until I read the article and I never cared. It wasn't helping me find the content that I wanted right then and there. So it served no purpose for me.
I am an Apple, but I despised Ping. It can't go away fast enough for me.
I'm glad to see that they are revamping iTunes. Apple has done a lot of great things, but the interface with iTunes has always sucked. It is simply not at all intuitive.
I realize that it was my own stupidity, but I could never figure out how to turn the stupid thing off. Every time clicked on something that supid Ping window would open up. I had to close it before I could move onto the next thing.
I could turn Genius on and off at will. I kind of liked it giving me recommendations. I found a few songs I had forgotten about.
To be perfectly honest, I never knew the purpose of Ping until I read the article and I never cared. It wasn't helping me find the content that I wanted right then and there. So it served no purpose for me.
I am an Apple, but I despised Ping. It can't go away fast enough for me.
I'm glad to see that they are revamping iTunes. Apple has done a lot of great things, but the interface with iTunes has always sucked. It is simply not at all intuitive.
iTunes 11
Expect iTunes 11 to be released when Apple debuts the new iPad Mini this month. It's obvious statement, in my opinion, but I don't see folks saying this in their publications.
Expect iTunes 11 to be released when Apple debuts the new iPad Mini this month. It's obvious statement, in my opinion, but I don't see folks saying this in their publications.