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“After introducing Ping on Wednesday, Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, was asked why Apple built its own social network, rather than, say, build services on top of Facebook, as other music sites have done. Mr. Jobs, who was strolling around a demo room where reporters could try Apple’s new products, said that Apple considered that and held discussions with Facebook, but that the social networking company’s terms were ‘onerous,'” Helft reports. “Still, Apple used some of Facebook open programming interfaces to allow users to find their Facebook friends on Ping. But that stopped working on Thursday.”
“Why? Facebook blocked Apple from that because Ping had the potential to send so much traffic Facebook’s way and cause ‘site stability’ and ‘infrastructure’ problems, according to people familiar with the situation, who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity because they did not want the friction between the companies to escalate,” Helft reports. “Facebook insists that businesses that send a lot of traffic to its servers first work with the company to make sure those problems can be handled smoothly, these people said.”
MacDailyNews Take: Obviously, iTunes has the capacity to bury just about any site with traffic.
Helft reports, “In a statement, Facebook said: ‘We’re working with Apple to resolve this issue. We’ve worked together successfully in the past, and we look forward to doing so in the future.’ Facebook did not specify what the ‘issue’ was.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Judge Bork” for the heads up.]
Bury them. Now…and their 15% of ms ownership while you’re at it Steve…
Hell with facebook …… I think apple are trying to protect the privacy of individuals while facebook in the other hands wants more information and credit cards from apple and that could be dangerous for all of us.
@Merocity
I like you buddy, clear thinker.
You’re right, Apple has 160 million credit card holders, Facebook has 7 million Farmvillers who ain’t buying jack sh*t if it cost money – let alone have a credit card on file. ROFLMAO!
Facebook = Home of the Freetards
tagline = (trying to recoup some money now)
Someone tell Steve Jobs that dealing with Facebook would be like using Ferrari’s to deliver pizzas…
tom
If Apple confirm that none of my details will be pulled by Faceturd, that links to Faceturd will be accompanied by a warning that “you are about to visit a Faceturd page are you sure” then I would consider becoming a member of Ping.
Faceturd may have alot of members but like M$ these members are suckling on free tits. The day these members have to cough up to access some of faceturds features that will be the day that Faceturd’s features will be likened to Vista & other bloated crapware.
Apple…….Why bother with Faceturd? unless you are using links as a trojan horse to pull Faceturds users.
Just serve all your 160 million credit card customers well and any artist who is business minded will quickly realise where their bread will be buttered and jammed to their taste. At the same time configure Ping so that post on Faceturd cannot be pulled into Ping without some sort of conversion to filter out the possibility of personal details being hacked into by the faceturd Goons.
Kill Facebook
I agree, keep ping separate from other social media platforms.
Connecting ping to facebook could be the biggest mistake steve jobs has done since coming back to apple.
Ill stop using Ping as soon as FB is integrated. Dont want to have anything to do with FB, its a plague
Social Media in iTunes (Ping), on the AppleTV (RottenTomata reviews/comments), on the iPhone (FaceTime), Game Center (auto-select players), http streaming and a huge data centre in NC.
FB better play nice and watch out that Apple doesn’t eat their lunch!
Don’t need Facebook. Don’t bring that into the tidy and neat Mac world.