{"id":768,"date":"2018-03-30T10:40:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T05:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goshbuzz.com\/?p=768"},"modified":"2018-09-28T09:50:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T04:20:41","slug":"apples-own-social-network-have-you-heard-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/apples-own-social-network-have-you-heard-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s Own Social Network! Have You Heard Of It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s indisputable that Apple is one of the biggest innovative &amp; technology companies of all time. Since Apple&#8217;s launch on April 1, 1976, the tech giant has come a long way with its own share of failures &amp; success. One such failure was Apple&#8217;s own social network called &#8220;<em><strong>Apple Ping<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;. Ping was a music-based social network announced by Steve Jobs on September 1, 2010 calling it &#8220;<em><strong>sort of like Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;! Ping was\u00a0 branded as &#8220;<em><strong>a social network for music<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;. Soon after launch, Ping became a place for spam, fake accounts &amp; was available only in 23 countries. Further, Facebook restricted access to Ping that make it possible to interact with Facebook friends on Ping. Ping could never become popular &amp; could survive for only 2 years. Ping was officially discontinued by Apple on September 30 2012 coupled with Facebook &amp; Twitter integration in iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-in\/news\/finance-technology\/friendster-myspace-and-orkut-remember-these-social-networks\/ss-AAvdYkp#image=6\">MSN<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.in\/entry\/ping-dead-apple-itunes-social-network_n_1880806\">Huffpost<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20100902\/facebook-blocked-api-access-to-ping-after-failure-to-strike-agreement-so-apple-removed-feature-after-launch\/\">All Things D<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ITunes_Ping\">Wikipedia<\/a>, Photo Thanks: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bpedro\/4950238070\">Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s indisputable that Apple is one of the biggest innovative &amp; technology companies of all time. Since Apple&#8217;s launch on April 1, 1976, the tech giant has come a long way with its own share of failures &amp; success. One such failure was Apple&#8217;s own social network called &#8220;Apple Ping&#8220;. Ping was a music-based social&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,46,31,35,4,13,19,3,5],"tags":[11,104,56,117,61,267,107,82,147,108,106,68,268,14,139,191,29],"thb-sponsors":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Apple-Social-Network-iTunes-Ping-WinfiY-crunch.png?fit=560%2C397&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9V90w-co","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}