Apple Announces One Million Ping Users in First Two Days
Apple today announced that over one million users have joined Ping, the company's new social networking feature focused on music and built into iTunes 10. According to Apple, one-third of the people who have downloaded iTunes 10 in its first 48 hours of availability have joined Ping.
"One-third of the people who have downloaded iTunes 10 have joined Ping," said Eddy Cue, Apple's vice president of Internet Services. "As many more people download iTunes 10 in the coming weeks, we expect the Ping community to continue growing."
Ping has been receiving mixed reviews from users so far, as well as having to deal with several early issues involving a premature launch of Facebook Connect integration and a spam problem.Top Rated Comments
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19 months ago
and there will be about 1,000,000 unused "Ping" accounts after the weekend... seriously though, what good is "Ping" if you can not connect to other social networks and you can't even use applications such as "Address Book" to automatically search and add friends? I registered but lost interest.
19 months ago
I wonder how much they pay their press office department to come up with this ****?
19 months ago
I don't want to upgrade. I stopped using Facebook, I don't 'do' MySpace, I couldn't care less about sharing anything with anyone (apart from a bit of moaning here, on Macrumors).
19 months ago
and there will be about 1,000,000 unused "Ping" accounts after the weekend... seriously though, what good is "Ping" if you can not connect to other social networks and you can't even use applications such as "Address Book" to automatically search and add friends? I registered but lost interest.
'zactly. It's a great start but it needs better integration with other networking sites and better integration within iTunes itself. I'd rather have a little ticking feed at the bottom of iTunes with Ping info, rather than having to use the current Ping page.
19 months ago
Ping - Pong.... I wonder how many people will waste away there days watching what their "friends" are listening to.
Get back to work!
LanPhantom
Get back to work!
LanPhantom
19 months ago
Why can't we make a status? We can make a status if we include an album, but its not like Facebook. :(
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