iPhone Address Book Fiasco Should Be Apple’s Cue to Build Its Own Social Network Dan Frommer, readwriteweb.com Apple is good at many things, but so far, it has not excelled at “social” Web ser­vices. For exam­ple, Ping, the music-focused ser­vice it launched in 2010, is seen as one of its rare fail­ures.But now Apple has a real chance to do some­thing… // Would be a heck of a fight if Apple put its weight behind its own social network.
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iPhone Address Book Fiasco Should Be Apple’s Cue to Build Its Own Social Network
Dan Frommer, readwriteweb.com

Apple is good at many things, but so far, it has not excelled at “social” Web ser­vices. For exam­ple, Ping, the music-focused ser­vice it launched in 2010, is seen as one of its rare fail­ures.

But now Apple has a real chance to do some­thing…

// Would be a heck of a fight if Apple put its weight behind its own social network.