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Facebook Connect pulled from Apple's iTunes Ping
Jobs said Facebook Connect wasn't in Ping, and gave a dismissive "I guess we could do that." Meanwhile, Schiller said you can absolutely find your friends on Ping using Facebook Connect. Both are wrong, though: Apple apparently DID do that, and now the feature is gone.
However, there are clues that Facebook Connect was meant to be in iTunes. If you're following no one, you'll see a message on your People page that says, "You are not following anyone. Connect with Facebook, search for people, invite friends, or follow recommended people to get started." Facebook Connect is even mentioned in the Welcome to Ping email you get when you first sign up.
At this point, it's a mystery whether Facebook Connect will be back, but I hope it will. Although Jobs says Facebook demanded "onerous terms" from Apple, using Facebook Connect is way faster than manually adding all your friends to Ping. Hey Steve, can we get a Twitter or Gmail connect, at least?
[via Engadget]
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Subscribe to commentsBradSep 2nd 2010 4:47PM
Yeah, I guess I am confused. I actually got a log in to facebook in ping. It didn't really do anything since nobody was using ping yet I suppose. Was that unique or something that I actually got that far?
It sent me to a login screen in which I did that. At first it didn't work, it popped up with a window saying you must have cookies enabled in your browser, which made no sense since i was in itunes. I did it again and it worked. But nothing after that.
whenjasonattacksSep 2nd 2010 5:13PM
Apple limiting their users, what else is new?
FranklinSep 2nd 2010 6:18PM
Lack of choice is freedom from having to make decisions. /s
mark.stanleySep 3rd 2010 9:30AM
The Facebook Connect feature is called out in Apples own Ping demo video on their website (see below) so it's a little rich for them to suggest it wasn't in there!
http://www.apple.com/itunes/how-to/#video-started