Apple Announces it Will Shutter the Ping Social Network this Month

By Rob Scott
September 21, 2012

Apple announced it will shutter its social music tool Ping by the end of the month.
In its place, Apple will integrate Facebook features into iTunes, providing users the opportunity to “like” or “share” items in the store.
“You don’t need hindsight to figure out why Ping didn’t work — the most obvious problem with the service was that it didn’t sync up with the world’s most popular social network,” reports AllThingsD.
“But now Facebook and Apple have worked out their differences, and there’s no need to keep Ping on life support anymore,” notes the post.
According to Apple CEO Tim Cook: “We tried Ping, and I think the customer voted and said ‘This isn’t something that I want to put a lot of energy into.'”

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