Apple’s next iTunes about Ping

If you’re a user of Apple’s social network for music Ping , now we have a bad news today for you that Ping is set to be retired with the next release of iTunes. And an iphone 4 case should be a choice for you. I think that this news should be made most people not exactly surprise as Ping remains one of Apple’s few ideas that hasn’t taken off, there are bound to be at least some disappointed Ping users.

There have been previous hints that Apple was ready to drop its Ping venture and the CEO Tim Cook said back in May, “We tried Ping and I think the customer voted and said this isn’t something I want to put a lot of energy into,” although at that time there was nothing definite about Ping pinging off. But, today the news is that sources close to the company say that Ping will disappear with the next iTunes update.

And the news is coming to us from Mashable, sourced from All Things D, and of course, it will leave many people wondering that why Apple failed with this social network venture. In fact,  Ping never really took off, the reason maybe partly because of its limited access to only a certain amount of iTunes users. And maybe to its poor showing include a lack of artist profiles and also the amount of spam and commerce use rather than social interaction.

In the last few days with iOS 6 being detailed at Apple’s WWDC 2012 we also learned that along with Twitter that has already been integrated, iOS 6 will also feature Facebook integration. This was another sign then that Apple was giving up on Ping as it was obvious that it was now superfluous to requirements.

As we said that, we’re not surprised at the demise of Ping but would like to hear from readers about this. Did you try Ping but not for long? Maybe you’re a regular user and are saddened by this news? Will anybody miss it? Let us know with your comments.