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Ping is one of the few Steve Jobs-approved product failures. Even MobileMe eventually morphed into iCloud. Ping was DOA.
by mikek 14y ago
Ping is one of the few Steve Jobs-approved product failures. Even MobileMe eventually morphed into iCloud. Ping was DOA.
- dmix 14y agoIt was built with music studios in mind, not music fans. Plus it didn't improve over time and was rarely marketed.
- steve8918 14y agoActually, Steve Jobs' track record is closer to 50-50 in terms of successes vs failures. The difference is that his failures were usually not very significant, and his successes were monstrous.
- sneak 14y agoAre you counting the totally unprofitable development of NeXTStep as a success or failure (considering that NeXT would very likely have died had Apple not bought them)? (Those same APIs and objective paradigms became the basis for the entire iOS app ecosystem, via MacOS...)