вещи и люди нас окружают
15:37 | 08-09-2010 | Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Technology | 1 Comment
в общем, как и было предсказано — это лишь вопрос времени:
Music has always been social. It starts both friendships and arguments, and is a huge piece of everyone’s identity. When you think about it this way, Ping seems like something that should have happened years ago. It’s already a “can’t remember life before it” feature.
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I’m already buying more music. I shudder to think what will happen once we have Ping for books and apps[1].
у Амазона, кстати, уже есть зачатки подобной социальности, так что я бы поторопился:
Was there any urgency? Hasn’t iTunes been just fine as-is? Yes, but it had pretty much run out of tricks. I suspect someone at Apple finally realized how lucky they are that Facebook hasn’t started selling music yet. 500 million connected users talking constantly about what they do and don’t like, even “Liking” official band pages and sharing videos. The only missing piece is commerce. Is Ping a threat to Facebook? Not really. But Facebook Music would be a massive threat to iTunes.
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[1] — emphasis mine.
хотя реализация дерьмовая, разумеется: http://theappleblog.com/2010/09/09/is-ping-apples-google-wave/