Steve Jobs was on Ping when he announced its as the jewel of the new features in iTunes 10 during last night’s Apple event. Now he’s not. We spotted that friends in the US had managed to follow the Apple head honcho on Ping and naturally we wanted to as well but when we tried, we discovered he’d already quit. Why has the polo-necked prophet packed in Ping?
Tagged ‘iTunes 10’
Apple only outed Ping – its music-focused social network baked into iTunes 10 – yesterday but the verdict online hasn’t been good. Perennial early-adopter Robert Scoble summed up the general consensus in a tweet: “PING = Ping Is No Good. Geesh, Apple, you could have copied a lot of the innovations that Facebook and Twitter have shown you. Sigh.” We’ve rounded up the 10 most common criticisms of Ping and 10 ways Apple could fix them in an iTunes 10 update…
Get downloading! iTunes 10 is now available from the Apple website but the new social network strand Ping seems to be struggling slightly. While the People section of your Ping profile in iTunes 10 promises that you can link up with Facebook friends, the Facebook Connect button has gone AWOL…
Apple has deployed iTunes 10 to go with the new iPod touch, new iPod nano and new Apple TV. It’s a major overhaul for the jukebox software from the purely visual (a new icon consigning the CD to history) to a major new direction with the introduction of Apple’s own music-focused social network Ping…