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This morning my MacBook’s software update alerted me to the existence of iTunes 10.6.3. Reading through the list of changes, I saw that most were to make iTunes compatible with Apple’s new Mountain Lion OSX and iOS 6 for iPhones and iPads, both of which were unveiled yesterday at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference; there were also a couple of minor bug fixes. I was about to tweet something about an imaginary update to iTunes (“Fixes problem where no one gives a shit about Ping”), but I decided the joke was too obvious. Then I read that this is the last version that will include Apple’s misguided, terribly implemented attempt at music-based social networking, and suddenly I felt like I’d been contemplating kicking a puppy. Poor Ping, doomed as it was from the start, is now just hanging around iTunes waiting to be killed off.
