Dear Steve Jobs,
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I might actually be willing to use Ping – it’s a nifty idea, and would be a good replacement for that old Facebook app that allowed you to post what you were listening to but was too complicated and involved finding files on my C: drive all by myself, which, really, is too much effort to go to just to be embarrassed by how many times in a row I listened to that one Death Cab for Cutie song, and so I never used it – were it not for the fact that you will only allow me to choose three genres, which are narrow to begin with because even though “indie” and “punk” technically do fall under the “alternative” label, my taste for that label went out once I graduated high school and turned my attention away from Seattle, and besides, there are substrata I might be interested in exploring within the indie world, and you know how indie people are: we want more labels, Steve Jobs, because we live for labels, but now you want my musical tastes to be represented solely by the music I purchase from iTunes, which apparently consists solely of Beyonce, Lady Gaga and Madonna, which is fine, except it doesn’t fully represent me, and so, Steve Jobs, I’m beginning to think that you don’t understand me at all. Oh, and facebook integration would be nice too.
