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Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor? 271

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 02, 2010 @09:37AM
from the i-don't-think-it's-a-secret dept.

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.

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Ping (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday September 02, 2010 @09:40AM (#33450188)

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

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Re:First they laughed at me. (Score:4, Funny)

by Mongoose Disciple (722373) writes: on Thursday September 02, 2010 @09:44AM (#33450296)

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.

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Backdoor my foot (Score:3, Funny)

by srussia (884021) writes: on Thursday September 02, 2010 @09:48AM (#33450400)

It's the bloody Arc de Triomphe!

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Re:Is It Only Through iTMS Application? (Score:5, Funny)

by noidentity (188756) writes: on Thursday September 02, 2010 @09:54AM (#33450528)

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.

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Re:Is It Only Through iTMS Application? (Score:5, Funny)

by RivenAleem (1590553) writes: on Thursday September 02, 2010 @10:25AM (#33451162)

"It's Turtlenecks all the way down"

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Re:Ping (Score:5, Funny)

by node 3 (115640) writes: on Thursday September 02, 2010 @01:37PM (#33454886)

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!

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