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by Cromwell Schubarth
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Sep 02 2010 8:50am EDT

Jobs: Facebook Rolled Out 'Onerous Terms' for Ping

Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc. talked about incorporating the social network into iTunes new Ping service but couldn't come to terms, according to Steve Jobs.

That's what the Apple CEO told Kara Swisher of All Things Digital following Wednesday's Apple product rollout.

Jobs said that Facebook wanted “onerous terms that we could not agree to,” Swisher reported.

The new Ping feature on iTunes allows users to recommend music to friends and see what others are recommending, working and looking much like Facebook. But there is no connection to Facebook nor to other social networking pioneers such as Twitter or MySpace.

This means that recommendations and activity posted on Ping can't be automatically cross-posted on those other services and vice versa.

For more on the impasse between Apple and Facebook on Ping, read the full report on the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.

Cromwell Schubarth is the Multimedia/Research Editor for the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.

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