“First Ping, now Mountain Lion. You have to ask, what is it with Apple and Facebook?,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“Though Facebook integration was included in the Mountain Lion preview handed Apple developers on Monday, June 11, it was not part of the version released to the public on Wednesday, July 25,” P.E.D. reports. “Instead, Apple’s What’s New page has marked the Facebook feature with small yellow triangle that says ‘Coming this fall,'”
“What happened? The speculation among developers is that Apple and Facebook agreed for reasons unknown to wait for the release of iOS 6, also scheduled for this fall,” P.E.D. reports. “But you never know what’s going on behind the scenes.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: According to Zuckerberg himself back in 2010, Facebook blocked Ping over data reciprocity, saying “We want to have an understanding that you won’t just import our data — and that you try to contribute back.”
Related articles:
Apple’s Facebook integration in iOS 6 is a boon to developers – June 18, 2012
Apple to axe Ping dud in next iTunes version, say sources – June 13, 2012
Apple friends Facebook at WWDC, hits Google where it hurts – June 12, 2012
If Facebook gets any cheaper Apple needs to buy it – June 1, 2012
Facebook blocked Ping over data reciprocity, says Zuckerberg – November 17, 2010
Steve Jobs has Facebook’s Zuckerberg to dinner at his house to discuss Apple’s Ping – October 16, 2010
Steve Jobs: ‘Onerous terms’ prevented iTunes Ping integration with FaceBook – September 2, 2010
I wonder how many of us OSX users have nothing to do with FB.
“Have” or “want”?!? Facebooks sucks and I don’t want it anywhere near my OS! Apple will only be wasting more time removing it when the flash has left the pan later this decade…
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How about later this month or week?
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FarceBook is stolen software and is the CheezWhiz of Tech. It’s got 15 minutes of fame and the clock says 14:5x.
Don’t want that Scheiße anywhere near my computer, tablet or smartphone.
Facebook=yuck
Got that right. I neither need nor want immediate access to Facebook. Facebook is irrelevant to me, a collection of nonsense, inanity, and unending boredom. It’s a waste of time.
No friends, huh?
You don’t need Facebook… …if you have friends. If you live in your mother’s basement, you take what you get. In this case FB helps a lot.
There have been and always will be friends without Facebook. How have humans managed relationships for thousands of years before Facebook? I pity people like you who need and crave the attention of your pseudo-friends.
Most of us here have had friends for many more years that FB has been around. The better question is why do you think you need FB to have friends?
“No friends, huh?”
There is a radical idea called seeing people in person and interacting with them firsthand. Instead of posting endless crap to FarceBook call a couple of friends over for a game of cards, a drink or a movie.
I know it’s a radical idea for those under 30, but one can actually turn off a cellphone and live. FaceBook is also the quickest route to the unemployment line for the under 30 crowd I have ever seen. They are worse than a horny teen and his Johnson- can’t leave it alone.
My workplace has a ban on use of cell phones and social media at work and within sight of our customers and patients. This is as it should be, yet the slackers try every means of sneaking to text or post some BS to FarceBook- risking termination to do so.
macrick, that was hilarious. To everyone else, you all seem to think it’s an “either”/”or” thing with Facebook, that if you use Facebook, you can’t or don’t have any real life friends, or if you have real life friends, you don’t need Facebook.
While there are narcissists and desperate people who use Facebook as a crutch to fill a hole in their soul by overusing it (and creating a lot of drivel), most of us just use Facebook to compliment the relationship with our real life friends. I have plenty of real life friends that I love going out, and hanging out with. But with a busy life, I only get to see them once in a while, and some friends that have moved away, I don’t get to see at all anymore. With Facebook we can connect 24/7 from anywhere, and share what we’re doing, what we’re thinking, how we’re feeling, what stupid joke we heard that day, etc… Yes, there is a lot of “noise” on Facebook, but it is just an extension of connecting with people virtually. In the beginning it was letters, then the telephone, then email, now it’s Facebook. Facebook is no lamer than you virtually connecting with friends over the phone or through emails.
Oh, and love the irony of MacFreek’s post. “Facebook is irrelevant to me, a collection of nonsense, inanity, and unending boredom. It’s a waste of time.” says the guy who is reading and posting his thoughts and feelings to a social comment system. If you’re posting here, it’s the same thing. Facebook is a social comment board! Whatever you get out of posting here, is what people get from posting and commenting on Facebook.
I do, however, get the uncomfortable feeling when something that you don’t use is so ubiquitous that you can’t get away from it. It can piss you off. (Like how I felt being a Mac user in the nineties with Windows ruling the computing landscape), So, yes, the ubiquitousness of Facebook is annoying. So I do feel your pain there.
But if you hate Facebook because you think it’s just a bunch of idiots connecting with each other over the internet, when they should really be outside with real people and real friends. It takes a lot of balls (or idiocy) to be posting on an internet social comment board stating that people who post on another internet social comment board are losers for posting on a social comment board!
So, if you’re here on the internet making a social comment….
One of us! One of us! One of us!!!”We accept you! We accept you! One of us! One of us! Gooble-gobble, gooble-gobble!”
Your lack of social graces must keep you prisoner behind the LCD. Your incoherent babbling suggests an inherent inability to engage in intimate personal relationships. It is obvious that Facebook is the shallow medium that allows you to relate to others without requiring eye contact and physical touch.
…says the person who’s wasting his time judging people behind an LCD screen. You’re just like me! Except that the person who lacks social graces is usually the one who throws the first inane punch,… which was you at the top of this thread by making the insinuation that people who are interested in something that you’re not are shallow losers.
And if you really think YOU’RE above the inanity of what goes on at Facebook. Look at us, we’re having an internet argument on whether Facebook is stupid or not, and you started it!!! Welcome to the club!
You guys are funny. In case you didn’t recognize it, that was just a joke. I was playing off the strong negative reactions to an online social app in which you are under no obligation to participate. I don’t to Twitter, but there’s a Twitter link in the share menu. I don’t plan to pontificate on it. I just won’t click it.
I am way over 30, have many friends on and off line. I was actually having dinner and playing cards with some friends at home the other night and at a local watering hole last night with another group having a wonderful time. I also enjoy keeping up with long lost and rarely seen childhood friends on FB. It is a casual, minimal commitment way of staying in touch.
What ever.
macrick, your “no friends, huh?” joke was hilarious. It actually made me chuckle when I saw it. If any of these other sourpusses would have replied to you with a, “Okay, that was funny, but I still think Facebook is dumb.”, I’d have a lot more respect for them, and believe that they actually do have a real social life, like they claim.
It’s really difficult to believe that all these cranky curmudgeons are the ones who are extolling the virtues of having real life friends over internet friends. It’s the funny ones who I believe have a social life on and off the internet. It’s the pissers and complainers who, I’m sure, have little or no friends, real or virtual. I mean, it says it right in their comments. “Facebook? A social place for friends and people to connect and converse?!? Bah, humbug, it’s for losers!!”
Like you, I don’t use Twitter, but I don’t hate Twitter and drag out my torches and pitchforks over it either, I just ignore it.
I have nothing to do with FB.
And macrick, I have enough friends – in the real world. Come and joins us.
Facebook integration was not in the developer previews, and when announced at WWDC, was said then it wouldn’t come out until the fall, when it comes out in iOS6 at the same time. PED has this one completely wrong
I saw it was missing yesterday, and wondered where Facebook was at first. Then I remembered that it was clearly stated that Facebook integration was going to be in the fall at the Keynote. Any REAL reporter/journalist would not be asking the public a stupid FUD question. Throwing out a headline for shock effect and to generate traffic is NOT INVESTIGATING!! A little bit of research, and this article would be headlined: “OS X FACEBOOK INTEGRATION REMAINS ON SCHEDULE FOR THE FALL AS PROMISED”
Also, isn’t it “the Facebook?”
OSX ML will be updated simultaneously w/ iOS 6.
Not on FB, never will be. Plus I actively block all things FB from the hosts file, on up through Safari Extensions.
It is annoying at times when some business clients are only on FB, but I let them know that they need to communicate through traditional means due to the inherent insecurity of FB. They get it.
Exactly, and I let websites that try to drive users to FarceBook that many of us wouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot ****.
If not recently changed, anything you post to FarceBook becomes their property- including your pictures and all the rest. Your pix of your newborn or your kid’s first at bat in Little League is the IP of Zuckerberg. Check the EULA. It’s like sheeple volunteering to be electronically stalked for advertising money.
If anyone from Apple is lurking I ask one thing regarding FarceBook:
Put a system preference pane up that blocks all FaceBook activity in the OS and blocks FaceBook tracking. I don’t want to have anything to do with it.
Well, that explains why I couldn’t find the Facebook option in the share menu this morning. I was looking all over Safari preferences and the main Control pane to find a way to add it in.
Cuz you’re a sheep
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Hint’s got it right, you’re all sheep!!! Me and Hint, we’d never waste our time being part of some social internet comment board,… posting replies to peoples comments!! How lame! What a bunch of losers!!! You’re a bunch of followers just doing what everyone else is doing..
Me and Hint are Mavericks!!! After we’re done here, we’re going to download some songs from iTunes, then go play a video game, then catch a hollywood movie, and maybe go shopping at the mall after, because we blaze our own path, while all you sheep just keep doing what everyone else is doing!
baaaa
Next gen iPhone, iOS6, a ML tweak and my ATT contract is up. Going to be a busy fall.
The Face Book app, reminds me of Vista. The solftware is old & clunky & is just patch after patch of v1.
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The Google+ app is gorgeous and fun to use.
Enjoy playing with yourself, huh?
Facebook is a boat anchor, and the old farts running Apple are going to be sorry they hitched themselves to it.
Although I am not fond of Facebook, not a member, and in general don’t like social networks, your Facebook friends never borrow your tools and never bring them back.
Apple is planning on providing Twitter integration into 10.8’s Notifications system this fall. It is logical that they pulled the Facebook integration in order to release it at the same time.
There are also reports (not from me!) that there were clunky integration problems with the Twitter interface that ended up needlessly throwing the user out of the Notifications interface. There may be a similar problem with the Facebook interface. I strongly suspect that Apple wants to remove those clunkiness problems in order to improve the user experience.
I also suspect a political situation where both Twitter and Facebook demand an unveiling at the same time.
Therefore, ‘this fall’ = both Twitter and Facebook integration into Notifications via a 10.8 update. No big deal. Just gotta wait a bit longer.
considering how terrible Facebook has become now, charging all of us to communicate with each other by making us PAY if we want to reach out friends with posts, it would be AMAZING is Apple made them stick it up their… and created it’s own Facebook and took this jackass company DOWN
Pay for what? Facebook is free to join and use. There are no charges I’m aware of. There was an internet rumor that FB was going to start charging for membership, but that was bogus.