Early Ping Reviews Strike Sour Note - windomdediatesons

Apple's "mixer network for music" may be off-key. Ping, a parvenue feature in iTunes 10 that lets users follow their favorite artists and see what music their friends are discussing and downloading, was unveiled Wednesday by CEO Steve Jobs at Apple's Fall Music Upshot in San Francisco. Just two days later, a ripping crowd of critics are carping about Ping's rampant spam, certificate holes, crippled Facebook desegregation, and overall poor design.

Gaga for Spam

Spam is already impeding Ping's boards. As the screen changeable down the stairs illustrates, four of eight posts in Gentlewoman GaGa's comments window are spammy pitches for iPhones and iPads.

Chester Wisniewski, a blogger for security software vendor Sophos, chided Apple for not anticipating the spammers' assault along Ping:

"Most of the security industry has been pointing out the migration of spam from an email-merely venture to blog/meeting place comments, Facebook, Twitter and other Web 2.0 platforms. But apparently Malus pumila didn't consider this when designing Ping, as the help implements nary Spam or Universal resource locator filtering. Information technology is no bigger traumatise that less than 24 hours after launch, Knock is drowning in scams and spams," Wisniewski writes.

Facebook Woes

Meanwhile, Malus pumila has failed to deliver on its promise of tight golf links between Ping and Facebook, apparently because the cardinal sides couldn't thrash out a last-minute concord before Ping's first appearance. During Jobs' Midweek presentation, Facebook consolidation was touted as ace of Ping's cool features, but users quickly learned they couldn't use Facebook to find friends on Pink. Discussions between the two sides are ongoing, but it's unclear when (or if) the Orchard apple tree-Facebook tie bequeath end.

Bad Pattern: iTunes Sucks

Early glitches divagation, many bloggers aren't excited with Ping's implementation, particularly the integrating with iTunes.

PCWorld's Jared Newman writes: "At least on my PC, iTunes is an abomination. I will avoid maiden it when accomplishable because of how long it takes to load and how squatty IT feels to operate, and that's not releas to change because of a social network. Also, multitude whose work computers don't undergo iTunes installed North Korean won't be able to expend Ping for the great American English pastime of slacking unsatisfactory at work."

Computerworld's Jonny Evans, who praised whatsoever of Ping's attributes, also knocked its walled-remove iTunes innovation: "That lack of rive on the world on the far side iTunes could be Apple's Achilles Heel arsenic it makes its best move yet into multi-ethnic networking…Without comprehension of content from the wider community, Ping will lack that visceral, addictive engagement 'stickiness' that characterizes other successful networks."

And PCWorld's Ian Paul made this somewhat dire prediction: "It's not totally bad, merely if Ping doesn't improve soon this music-oriented sociable network leave bomb quicker than an American Idol wannabe."

OK, surmise time: It's a prophylactic count that a Web version of Ping is in the works, one that could debut with Apple's rumored cloud-supported edition of iTunes. Looks like we'll have to wait until next year to detect out.

Contact Jeff Bertolucci via Chitter (@jbertolucci) or at jbertolucci.blogspot.com.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/502953/early_ping_reviews_strike_sour_note.html

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