Apple's failed Ping showed how hard it is to create a music service

Steve Jobs, four months introduced Ping at the event, which also featured the introductions of iPod and the generation of Apple TV...   What Ping is, said Jobs on stage, is sort of like Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes.   o reading the posts by artists and friends, you could also see Top Ten chart that Ping compiled based on the popularity of songs and albums in the accounts you chose to follow..   Jobs, in interview the day after the keynote with Kara Swisher of Wall Street Journal revealed that the plan had been to integrate Ping directly with Facebook.   In the opening days, Ping was plagued by spam, Jony Ive, and various musical artists, including Ben Folds..   This is the album that was later alleged to contain Jackson tracks and Apple's one, Much Too Soon is not one of them...   He stopped short of announcing Ping's death and did say that we tried Ping and I think the customer voted and said this is not something I want to put lot of energy into...   Shortly after on September 12, 2012, Apple announced that Ping would close at the end of the month..   Right from the start, Apple Music contained feature called Connect which was meant to provide the benefits of Ping's system of following artists.   Ping is remembered these days as curiosity, and as the last of the in Steve Jobs era to go down as failure..   Read more