Apple plans to close Ping

Not long ago, in September 2010, Apple presented its own social resource Ping, which is part of iTunes. The time has passed, but the resource has not become particularly popular - even among fans of Apple products (both software and hardware). Soon this resource will be closed - there is no official information on this subject yet, but sly journalists have already found the relevant anonymous sources who reported this information.

According to these anonymous sources, despite the fact that in 10.6.3 and iOS 6, in the preliminary versions, there is Ping, in the final versions of the products of this service will not be. most likely, an official statement from Apple about closing the Ping will be made this fall. So far, Apple, as usual in such cases, is silent.
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Interestingly, this social network had all the prerequisites for success: a huge audience of Apple fans, financial capabilities of the corporation and so on. In the first 48 hours after opening, Ping acquired about a million users. But in the future, these users began to leave the resource, seeing that Ping was created primarily to encourage users to buy music on itunes, and not to let these users communicate, create communities of interest and all that jazz.

Ping didn’t have many of the essential elements that are now an integral part of most social networks (including the status update feature, visible to all friends, etc.). In general, by mature reflection, Apple management decided to close Ping. Instead, the corporation will take a course towards closer interaction with Twitter and Facebook.

Via pcworld