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Apple's social network gets flummoxed by spam
HIGHLIGHTING Apple's excellence in security, merely 24 hours after cult leader Steve Jobs' presented the world with a social network for its fanbois it was deluged with spam.
After outing a range of new Ipods, Jobs turned his hand to demonstrating Ping, a scheme in which users can track the habits of 'friends' and help those incapable of thinking for themselves make purchasing decisions. What it seems Jobs forgot was that social networks are fertile hunting grounds for spammers, and it didn't take long for them to swarm all over Apple's latest moneyspinning venture.
Somewhat ironically most of the messages offer Ping users the chance to acquire free Apple kit by visiting various bogus websites. Apparently the scam is similar to those seen on other social notworking venues, which makes you wonder if Jobs bothered to do any research before developing and announcing Ping.
Jobs was keen to distance Ping from Facebook and Twitter but its concentration on music means that it is in direct competition with Myspace. Though Myspace has fallen out of favour in recent years, it still has a considerable following and is heavily used by up and coming artists to promote themselves.
Given Apple's penchant for restricting its users, it is surprising that more wasn't done to stop scammers from defacing one of the firm's holy products. Saint Steve won't take kindly to the desecration of his latest shrine, so expect a plague of locusts to be winging their way towards the spammers. µ
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"Blindly praising ifonz and iTampoons, which sell ok, shouldn't take away from the fact that apple tv is a flop"
You're a real brain trust, aren't you? "iTampoons"? Really? That's the best you can do?
I've never owned an Apple product, and have extreme distaste for Mr. Jobs' marketing truth-stretching, but saying that iProducts aren't successful is patently absurd - and may account somewhat for this chart:
http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=Linear&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1283729004112&chddm=493833&chls=IntervalBasedLine&cmpto=INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC&cmptdms=0&q=NASDAQ:AAPL&ntsp=0
That's Apple vs. the NASDAQ index for the last five years. Indeed, the AppleTV was not a rousing success. Gaining 500% vs. the NASDAQ, though, qualifies.
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Now watch as he tries to lay the blame on Microsoft, facebook, or the website's users.
Uh oh... Does this now mean as an IT professional if i ever check a network connection by using the DOS command "ping" I could get sued by aPple because no doubt St Jobs has got it in his head that he came up with the term ping and no one else can use it?
And with regards to the article..... FPMSL :) This is one time where spammers have actually done to world a favour and tried to wipe that smug "i think everyone should do as i say and do" look off of his face :)
Ping isn't the first social networking site? There were others? I thought Steve invented social networking? ;)
Don't forget that if it weren't for ass-licking zombie media (thankfully not here) you would hardly ignore that many of apple products end up as failures. Blindly praising ifonz and iTampoons, which sell ok, shouldn't take away from the fact that apple tv is a flop
Not so "Magical" now is it Jobs? iDiot.
Of course St Jobs didn't bother researching the competition. Never does. Just look at the iphone mk1 - It could barely function as a phone, and SMS message support was laughable.
Having said that, the iphone flaw isn't much better as a phone either! lol!