“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.”
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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.”
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