“Apple has finally acknowledged what the market has been telling it since it first debuted Ping, its social network for music, in September of 2010,” John Paczkowski reports for AllThingsD. “The service is a failure.”
“And rather than continue to maintain Ping, the company is abandoning it and using its partnerships with Twitter and Facebook to make its various software and service offerings social in a way that consumers actually care about,” Paczkowski reports. “Sources close to the company say that Ping, which still exists today in iTunes 10.6.3 and the iOS 6 beta — where it doesn’t work, will be gone with the software’s next major release, likely scheduled for this fall. And at that point Apple’s social networking offerings will shift to Twitter and new partner Facebook entirely.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Ping needed to be ponged long ago. It’s the Google+, the Zune, and the Apple hockey puck mouse – all rolled into one big ball of shit – of music-based social networking.
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