Looks like the Engineers team from Apple has been quite busy, launching new products - revamped iPod Nano, Shuffle, iPod Touch and their latest software. You can find out all the details of the events
here by CNET.com.
I was particularly interested on the Ping, unfortunately China will never see the light of this (not anytime soon anyway, but fear not with the giant photocopy-cat machine shouldn't take long for someone to launch something, any takers?).
Here was the response from Apple "I understand Ping does not appear in your iTunes 10. I know how confusing this can be and am glad to provide you the necessary information. Ping feature of iTunes is available for the countries which have iTunes music store. In China only App store is available so Ping feature is not included in your iTunes."
Even more interesting was that this particular feature was introduced by iPod rivalry ZUNE on their Wireless feature of social network, sadly Apple will take this feature on leverage more with Facebook and their million of loyal minions. Plus they have the capability to take it further by having a real artist or celebrity populate contents that people will follow, it is just genius to leverage what they have at hand and there is no better platform than this to promote their latest album, concert, tour and backstage feed. I look forward from a distance (literally) on the success of Apple's latest music social networking.
Peace out and have a great weekend from China!
