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Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor?
rsmiller510 writes "Could Apple's announcement about Ping, a music-based social network be Apple's social networking trojan horse? Facebook might want to be concerned." Of course it is.
Update: 09/02 19:26 GMT by T : Jamie points out this post on Daring Fireball, according to which Steve Jobs blames the non-integration on "onerous terms" suggested by Facebook.
A few months back my wife and kid were in Scotland on holidays. I was flying out to join them a few days later. While in Scotland my wife dropped me an email saying that she's trying to read email overseas but doesn't seem to have any emails in her webmail interface. So I open up her Outlook 2000 / Win XP pop 3 client and see that her emails are downloading locally to our home computer, even when Outlook isn't running....
What the...? I think, and I noodle around a bit and discover that even when I close outlook, the outlook process continues to run, which is why the emails are downloading locally instead of living in the cloud.
Why? Turns put it's due to FRIKKING iTunes. iIunes has added some kind of plugin to outlook that keeps the process running. What the frik? Why? Why does iTunes need to hook into outlook? It's just for copying files to and from an iPod!!!! Why does it need a FRIKKING Outlook hook that messes people up?! I FRIKKING HATE iTunes.
I then decide to noodle around some more and see what else this bloatware parasite application has done, so I open up my services. And surprise, surprise, there's that sucker BONJOUR running as a service helping me "discover printers"." F*ck off, my printer's right there - I can see it. Discover my ass, Bonjour. I kill that sucker...
Then what do I find? Yet ANOTHER FRIKKING service running that allows iPhones to talk to Apple TV. What the hell? I don't have an iPhone and I sure as hell don't have an Apple TV. I have a FRIKKING WINDOWS media extender that works great!
I hate that parasitic bloatware piece of crap iTunes.