Many people now wonder how Apple’s new social network for music, Ping, will manage without access to Facebook.
The first ones who started using Ping, Apple’s new social network for music, which was launched last week, got a request that asked them if they wanted to add friends through their Facebook account.
One day later, there was no trace of either the question or the link to Facebook, according to CNET News.
At Apple’s event in San Francisco on Wednesday, Apple where showing images where the link to Facebook appears. See below, the picture is from the website of Business Insider.
In an interview with the site All Things Digital, Apple CEO Steve Jobs comments the missing link to Facebook like this:
When I asked Jobs about that, he said Apple had indeed held talks
with Facebook about a variety of unspecified partnerships related to
Ping, but the discussions went nowhere.The reason, according to Jobs: Facebook wanted “onerous terms that we
could not agree to,” related to connecting with Facebook friends on
Ping.
So it seems that Apple at that moment in time decided to manage without a connection to Facebook. Facebook, on the other hand, comments this issue in the following way:
Source: NyTeknik
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