Apple Will Discontinue Ping in Next iTunes Update - John Paczkowski - Social - AllThingsD

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"Apple has finally acknowledged what the market has been telling it since it first debuted Ping, its social network for music, in September of 2010. The service is a failure.
And rather than continue to maintain Ping, the company is abandoning it and using its partnerships with Twitter and Facebook to make its various software and service offerings social in a way that consumers actually care about."

Apple Will Discontinue Ping in Next iTunes Update - John Paczkowski - Social - AllThingsD