Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor? 271
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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.
Ping (Score:5, Funny)
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. (Score:4, Funny)
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 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Is It Only Through iTMS Application? (Score:5, Funny)
Yep, leave it to Apple to make the simple ping command all bloated and require QuickTime, etc.
Re:Is It Only Through iTMS Application? (Score:5, Funny)
"It's Turtlenecks all the way down"
Re:Ping (Score:5, Funny)
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!