Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor?

rsmiller510 writes "Could Apple's announcement about Ping, a music-based social network be Apple's social networking trojan horse? Facebook might want to be concerned." Of course it is. Update: 09/02 19:26 GMT by T : Jamie points out this post on Daring Fireball, according to which Steve Jobs blames the non-integration on "onerous terms" suggested by Facebook.

Ping

[Anonymous Coward]

ping www.apple.com
PING e3191.c.akamaiedge.net (184.84.45.15): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 184.84.45.15: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=31.528 ms

Re:First they laughed at me.

[Mongoose Disciple]

That's not quite accurate -- you said that Ping would kill Facebook. Without really knowing jack about it.

I still think that's funny and/or you're trolling, although I also think an article about Apple coming in through the backdoor is inherently funny and invites numerous lube jokes.

Backdoor my foot

[srussia]

It's the bloody Arc de Triomphe!

Re:Is It Only Through iTMS Application?

[noidentity]

Looks to be just more bloat on an already bloated piece of software. The least they could do is modularize iTunes so that if I click a box on install I can make it so that the application is just a way to put music onto an iPod. I am sick and tired of the video and TV stuff forcing me to put Quicktime on my machine!

Yep, leave it to Apple to make the simple ping command all bloated and require QuickTime, etc.

Re:Is It Only Through iTMS Application?

[RivenAleem]

"It's Turtlenecks all the way down"

Re:Ping

[node 3]

Yes, because words can have only one meaning and no more. They especially can't be used for products or company names.

Word, Tux, Oracle, Excel, Sun, Bing, Java, Gnome, Yahoo...

Wow, Apple is sure going to confuse people with this!