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Apple's Ping Social Network Officially Closes

FrankieTDouglas said:
Like cover flow and any other viewing options that I'll never use other than the basic list, is this a "feature" that can be turned off and ignored? Or will I have to treat this iTunes like iOS 6 and not upgrade to it for a lengthy period of time until they correct dumb decisions?
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iOS 6 nothing, iOS 5 made the Music app on the iPad into something far less than its predecessor. Bringing that to the desktop is just one more reason to wish someone would stamp on Scott Forstall a few times.

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adbe said:
I can easily imagine an alternate universe where neither of those services existed and Ping still came and went without anyone really noticing. At the end of the day it failed to answer a very simple question: "why on Earth would I give a ....?"

It's not easy to know which things will fly and which will bomb, so I'm not going to poke fun at Apple here. Right now Passbook looks to be another non-entity in the making, but who knows? News stand wasn't given much of a chance when it first arrived, but it's clearly gearing up to be a success for Apple now.
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(self quoting, D'oh!)

Thinking on it, Ping seemed to be a case of Apple losing sight of something important. A lot of companies get the "but is it cool" syndrome. Apple has generally avoided that disease. If you set out to make something good, young people will tend to regard it as cool. If you set out to make something cool, well, not so much. For years MS have been failing here, but the UI formerly known as Metro suggests that may be getting the hint. Ping was a rare case where Apple forgot.
 
And for a good laugh, read the iTunes 10 launch thread :

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1005554/

Couple of nice gems about how Ping was going to be great in there... :eek:

Good riddance. If Apple hadn't shoved it into everyone's face, maybe it would have gotten more use. I know I steered clear of it because of the way Apple basically "forced it" into everyone's sidebar/menus.
 
ThE.MeSsEnGeR said:
Rest In Pieces, Ping... you will NOT be missed. AT. ALL.
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I corrupted the Ping .NIB files in my iTunes. Ping, I pee on your grave.

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KnightWRX said:
And for a good laugh, read the iTunes 10 launch thread :

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1005554/

Couple of nice gems about how Ping was going to be great in there... :eek:

Good riddance. If Apple hadn't shoved it into everyone's face, maybe it would have gotten more use. I know I steered clear of it because of the way Apple basically "forced it" into everyone's sidebar/menus.
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Also, the service seemed like it was just meant to make me buy more music.
 
Foxer said:
The next time someone criticizes Apple Maps (or something else) by invoking, "Steve Jobs would have never allowed this to be released," you can point out the failed logic of that statement with the simple word "Ping."
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No.
Ping wasn't replacing an existing functionality. The service was meant as an addition that was either not needed or just poorly executed (I believe it's more of the latter).
Apple Maps replaces a basic functionality that was working -lacking some more recent features, no question about it- with something that isn't working anymore for many people.
 
hexonxonx said:
Well, isn't that one huge reason behind the iPhone/iPods? iTunes is integrated and you can't get rid of it.
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I only have 3 songs on my iPhone that I purchased from the iTunes Store, I think. The rest are from CDs. And it's not like iTunes shoves it in my face; there's just an iTunes Store button I can press if I want to buy lower-quality songs at premium prices. It's extremely easy with iTunes to put whatever music you want onto your iPod.

Ping, on the other hand, gets in my face about it. Luckily, you can disable Ping in Parental Controls. And Steve Jobs even thought Ping was a good idea. I guess that's something to bring up whenever someone says "Steve would have never let this happen!" in a serious tone.

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a0me said:
No.
Ping wasn't replacing an existing functionality. The service was meant as an addition that was either not needed or just poorly executed (I believe it's more of the latter).
Apple Maps replaces a basic functionality that was working -lacking some more recent features, no question about it- with something that isn't working anymore for many people.
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Actually, iTunes with Ping replaced iTunes without Ping. You were essentially forced to upgrade. And once you did, Ping appeared and got in your face. You can disable Ping in the parental controls, but few people know this.

And still, Ping just shows that Steve Jobs can make mistakes. So does the iMac G5.
 
Too bad they couldn't get it right. And by right I mean persuasive, or effective, or useful, or interesting, or...
I'll continue with last.fm via coversutra
 
Small White Car said:
Ping and the original iMac hockey puck mouse.

The 2 Apple products that I've never seen anyone, anywhere, ever defend.
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Actually, the hockey puck mouse worked well -- for the hands of a two-year-old.

However, it didn't work quite so well for those of us who have hands larger than a toddler.
 
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I believe that large companies like Apple and Google see Facebook share of the market and think hey we can do it better..Also point to how Facebook destroyed MySpace..the part I think they loose track of is the key demographic of social networking is teens and more specifically teen girls..a very very tough demographic to crack ..
 
At least they have te balls to admit when they are wrong and close an unwanted service down and not force it upon us all. Just like MobileMe. Can you imagine the backlash though if they had put heavy 'ping' integration into Mountain Lion and ios 6?!
 
I don't think I gave ping a chance. I signed up when it first launched and noticed it had changed my name in iTunes for reviews etc. I changed it back and never touched it again.
 
Anything even remotely connected to that slug of a resource hog that is iTunes is automatically a fail in my book.
 
Yay..... Ping is Dead...

I mean Facbook is for this stuff.. Its the buggest, by far, for social-networking, why would you want/need a service aimed only at music?

Facebook dies all this, and much more.

Besides, Ping was only on iTunes, thus a small share if people would use...

Bit like MobileME really.

What was funny, was it still exsisted in the colum at left of a previous version of iTunes, but when clocked, the right pane gave you the message.

Not a simple popup,,, it was STILL in iTunes, but not usable.

confussed the hell outta me
 
Tim Cook: What is your job in here?
Apple employee: We are working on Ping
Tim Cook: Ping?!?! What is Ping?
 
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