Apple has launched Ping, its new Music Social Network where users can follow and be followed by friends, bands and everybody with an iTunes account, but Ping is not the first attempt by Apple to create its own social network related community, there are rumors that points to an imminent redesign to the Support Area into a Support Community where users will be able to collect points depending on how usefull is the information they provide to others.

But the Ping and the Community area of Apple’s support website are not the last known information about social network endeavours by Apple, it’s launched Game Center, a Game related Social Network that will collect information about games played, scores, send and accept direct challenge from other users in a multiplayer-like environment.

With more than 160 million iTunes users these new Apple Social Network could have its success guaranteed, but there is one major problem, none of them are related or unified into the same root, something that could be achieved if all of them run around an universal or unique service (mobileme.com, me.com), an excellent service that is only available to paying members.

Mobileme.com or me.com has the potential to become a real social network bringing information about your mobile usage, photos, emails, upload and download video on the go, calendar and contact sync, plus Game Center, Ping and the new Support Community.

Two keys will be important to the success of the Apple Social Networks, one: free iAds-supported MobileMe.com, where users can have its own mobile Social Network with Sync on the Go while features Like Find My Phone could be access for a monthly charge; two: interaction, how the communities/social networks interact between them and/or outside them (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, others).

Apple has too many things dispersed when they can be combined to bring more value to the end users and increase Apple user base with interaction from other Networks that will provide fresh information and green cash to iTunes and other Apple Stores, like Books, AppStore and Ping’s concert Store.

But I really believe that Apple is too slow deploying their respective communities, there’s a tremendous opportunity in Books and TV and launching one Community and later the other will only give too much time to rivals to launch similar communities when Apple only has to make one big network (Me.com or iTunes.com) and everything falls in place.

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• Sep 3 2010 Apple has a Social Network fever… support games and music