meanwhile, somewhere at apple

[dr_memory]

“You know, I don’t think iTunes is bloated, baroque or feature-overstuffed enough yet.  How can we fix that?”

“Dude, we’ll totally ad a social network to it!  The kids love those!”

(Alternate version: “YO DAWG, I HEARD YOU LIKED SOCIAL NETWORKS…”)

Mostly, I snark to note that in here in C.E. 2010, “…we’ll add a social network/connection to facebook”

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[fj]

What happened with the Facebook thing was that Jobs and Fbook could not agree on terms for using Facebook Connect on such a scale -- "Jobs is quoted as having called the terms "onerous" -- and Apple launched with Facebook Connect anyway. Facebook blocked it.

[jered]

See also http://www.xconomy.com/national/2010/09/03/the-leaning-tower-of-ping-how-itunes-could-be-apples-undoing/... )

[dr_memory]

Not that I disagree with your larger points, but AFAIK the rendering engine inside iTunes is just WebKit. (Although AF may not be very F in this case.)

Me, I just want Apple to:

(a) dis-aggregate the device-syncing stuff from the music-collection-tending stuff. Why on earth is my music library the thing I load up to copy contact lists to my cell phone?!

(b) Actually open up iTunes in the same way they've opened up Safari: there's a million interesting things you can do with your music that Apple is clearly never going to implement on their own. Let me do the work, eh?

[motive_nuance]

(a) dis-aggregate the device-syncing stuff...

This. WTF.

[jered]

I sincerely hope the rendering engine is WebKit, although I think it may be with a non-HTML front-end language due to the way it behaves.

I should be able to browse the App store in the browser of my choice (enabling better searchability through 3rd parties), and then the "buy this app" link can be a itunes: URL that starts up a special app to complete my purchase. SRSLY.

[jered]

Also, I think you meant "sup dawg, I hear you liked social networks, so i put some ping in your itunes so you can sing while you ping"

[dr_memory]

WINNER.

[the_xtina]

+1

[sinboy]

Google Buzz, anyone?

[dr_memory]

The first draft of this post was a Google Buzz joke, but then I realized that not enough people had paid attention to Buzz to make it universally funny.

[fraterrisus]

"Yo Steve, I'm really happy for you, and I'mma let you finish, but Facebook is one of the best social networking sites of all time."

I can't believe I just wrote the second half of that sentence with a straight face, though.