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Ping Users Top One Million in First 48 Hours

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You mean "Users" as in "People who signed up to take a look at the hyped new feature"?

Sorry, but I'll be more curious to see how many people actually use the service in 6 months from now. The first reviews haven't been exactly glamorous.

No, I think he meant spammers.

Pretty sure everyone else counts spammers too ... and anything else they need to reach a newsworthy or investor-friendly figure.

Hey, I resemble that remark.

I would say that the majority of "users" (like myself) will not log into the service ever again.

It doesn't help having zero friends :/

And I will blame having no frinds on the lack of Fbook or Twitter connect

It's all about quality, not quantity. I'm surprised to see Apple jumping into social music when there's already services like last.fm which already excel and will be hard to dislodge.

As long as (Long-Term Increased iTunes Store Revenue due to Ping) > (Development and Maintenance Costs of Ping), I can't see why it's surprising. Perhaps you disagree that the above equation will be true for Apple?

A half assed service has the possibility of hurting their brand though, as well as driving people to competitors, e.g. http://twitter.com/garrettdimon/status/22824730445

Your link just got me on the free trial... gonna try it out on my droid and see if it's better than Pandora, and maybe I'll subscribe.

edit: bleh, $5 extra just for mobile? Nevermind.

Personally, I think the offline play feature makes it worth it. None of the other on-demand services seem to charge any less for mobile either, which makes me think that the labels have put a price floor on mobile access.

Oh I did forget about that... although I wish it had some sort of auto playlist feature that mixes in recommended music... basically I want it to be Pandora that lets me sometimes choose songs.

Can iTunes users chose to not be ping users?

Yes. You don't have to turn it on, but it shows up in the sidebar regardless.

Yes, and that irks me. I can hide almost everything else in that side-bar. But this is mandatory taking up vertical space on my vertically challenged (widescreen) monitor. Grrr.

Just like Apple TV, they will figure out how to make this (semi) right ... I hope.

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