Apple certainly took its honeyed time releasing iTunes 10 yesterday, and we’re commencement to consider it’s since a association was making the last-second change to its brand-new Ping social-network-for-music: a removal of Facebook Connect for finding friends. Seriously — although an option to find friends via Facebook was conspicuously benefaction during Steve’s keynote demos, it’s not there anymore. Oddly, a option was there at the really commencement — multiform Engadget staffers really saw a Facebook button when they signed up for Ping final night, as well as there’s a whole thread upon Apple’s await site of people who additionally saw it as well as are now wondering where it’s left.

Just to have things even some-more treacherous, Kara Swisher during All Things D got dual really different statements from Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller during a event yesterday: Schiller was enthusiastic about anticipating friends via Facebook, while Jobs pronounced Zuckerberg as well as co. were perfectionist “onerous conditions” which Apple refused. We’re assuming Jobs was talking about something deeper than only anticipating friends around Connect, though it’s still all very strange — and as it stands, finding friends upon Ping right now requires the fair bit of guesswork and acid, so we’re anticipating this all gets sorted soon. Check a video of Phil Schiller articulate about Facebook and Ping after a break, as well as the snap of it (sort of) operative from last night.

Update: We can’t confirm this, but we’ve only gotten a tip observant a problem is primarily upon Facebook’s end — the use is now denying requests from Ping, as well as the ensuing errors apparently caused sufficient alternative problems for Apple to pull a plug upon the tie entirely until it’s bound. That certainly would explain because Ping has seemed cart as well as slow from the opening, but we’re still waiting for a little central explanation of what’s starting upon.

Via Engadget