Why Apple’s Ping won’t catch on
Twitter/Facebook + iTunes x music = Apple’s Ping
Another end-of-summer evening, another Apple press conference. They have become a way of marking the eternal passage of time and your own undeniable mortality, right morbid gadget fans?
Well, this conference bought the announcement of Ping, which is in no way related to Microsoft’s Bing. Obviously.
Ping is a social network for music lovers. But it’s not Spotify. Obviously. Or MySpace. Obv. This is primarily a social network for music lovers who spend their cash in iTunes.
And here’s why it won’t work.
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