According to sources close to the matter, Apple will finally be abandoning their social media service, Ping, in the next iteration of iTunes. AllThingsD confirms that the service is no longer going to be around after the new iTunes rolls out alongside iOS 6.

Back in his spotlight session at the D10 conference in May, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the company might be killing off Ping as he promised to add more social integration into its products. The promise seems to be fulfilled with the system-wide Facebook integration found in iOS 6, which was announced at WWDC on Monday. Facebook