Usually, Apple does a very good job of masking when a product is designed purely to sell other products. For example is iTunes or the iPod the razor blade? Ping

Usually, Apple does a very good job of masking when a product is designed purely to sell other products. For example is iTunes or the iPod the razor blade? Ping is very sanitized and sterile. For the huge launch they did, there is almost no content preloaded. Plus there is even less freedom then in the app store. For posterity, I'd like to record the following message: These comments were all made when ping sucked. I'm sure that, similarly to the iPod launch, Apple will fix Ping and use it to destroy facebook. 10 years from now, all of these comments will look foolish. Clearly Apple has gotten so good at making winning products they need a fresh and new challenge. They've set the bar very high for themselves.