I just got through the "Ping" section of the keynote, trying hard to keep my lunch down. I am not usually one to question the decisions of the Cupertino company, but I can't help but feel an ultimate bummer later on with Ping. It may be a sort of nice idea, but it just doesn't feel right. Anyone else think so?
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Ping? WTF Apple?
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I personally love the idea. I have a list for musicians on twitter, but I hardly ever check it because I normally check twitter on the go so even when they recommend something good I forget about it by the time I get home.
With ping now I will be able to follow those same artists. Also if I find people with interesting music choices I can choose to follow them so I can get new ideas.
With ping now I will be able to follow those same artists. Also if I find people with interesting music choices I can choose to follow them so I can get new ideas.
I saw the "Apple have announced new networking tool called Ping" and thought! Wow! Have I gone back in time to 1982???
If you don't like it, why not just turn it off? It's not something you're obligated to use.
It's pretty bare right now, but it looks decent enough to me. If I don't like it, I can always turn it off. What about it particularly was such a turn-off?
Being able to check out artist profiles is kind of cool but extending it to user profiles seems unnecessary.
At first I thought it would be a bit like a LastFM kind of thing but it doesn't seem like that at all. It seems very focused on itunes music store sales.
At first I thought it would be a bit like a LastFM kind of thing but it doesn't seem like that at all. It seems very focused on itunes music store sales.
I thought it was going to kind of be like IM where it shows what you are listing to or give like the last 5 or 10 songs you listen to. I don't see it as any thing I would use now.
I was hoping this too, so it would be more like a last.fm kind of thing. That would have been great. But without that ability, it just sucks.
Hopefully Apple will add that feature.
No, I think a lot of us are with you in being underwhelmed, especially by the all-grey interface, although that might change still.
Perspective
As a recording artist on the itunes store I'll tell you, it was like having a big ballroom set up for your fans but with nobody in there.
I had almost 50% more users looking at my musical acts' facebook space for that purpose than I did ping.
My last message on there was "so, will the last one out turn out the lights?"
Echoes, resounding.
As a recording artist on the itunes store I'll tell you, it was like having a big ballroom set up for your fans but with nobody in there.
I had almost 50% more users looking at my musical acts' facebook space for that purpose than I did ping.
My last message on there was "so, will the last one out turn out the lights?"
Echoes, resounding.