You won't be Pinging anything after September 30.
Yesterday was a big day for Apple. Not only did the company takes the wraps off of the hotly anticipated iPhone 5, it also showed off new iPods and a new version of iTunes. Still, it wasn't all good news as Apple this week said goodbye to a failed product that never really took off.
Introduced in September of 2010, iTunes Ping is a music-orientated social network built into Apple's iTunes. It allows people to broadcast updates to their friends, follow their favourite artists, and see updates from friends and musicians they're following. At its launch, Steve Jobs described it as Twitter and Facebook meets iTunes. Sadly, Ping hasn't enjoyed much success.
This week we learned that Apple's Ping will not be included in the next version of iTunes. 9to5Mac reports that a message appearing on Ping states the service will shut down for good on September 30. What's more, it's not accepting any new users, so those that didn't sign up before now have officially lost out.
How about this?
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Why are most postings in a BLACK font but every once in a while a post (with no thumbs down!) shows up in a light grey font ?
seriously though, there are enough social networks around that it's time the herd started thinning a bit. File this up on the shelf with the apple newton and the pippin and call it a day.
Next up, MySpace.
I believe it's if the poster chose "negative" as the comment style, as I did with this one.
disregard that, i'm wrong and triple posting. wheeee!
Pinging ev.ery.on.e with social music software:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
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Ping statistics for ev.ery.on.e:
Packets: Sent = tons, Received = few, Lost = tons (99.9% loss),
It is funny to think of the small group of people who have relied on Ping as their social hub for years. I cant believe they kept it live this long
Off topic:
I hope samsung sues apple for their new nano
As far as I know, it means the user only recently created an account on Tom's. If you go to ekgjlgkj's user page you'll find that the join date was today.