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Re: Apple Invites

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Post by Jeremy1026 » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 4:51 PM UTC

maratc wrote: post #52

It's always nice to see some first-party apps from Apple[0], but historically the "iPhone-only social networking" hasn't been very successful — iTunes Ping or Game Center haven't been a huge hit, while group messaging in iMessage has only gained some traction within the US and virtually non-existent almost everywhere else. --- [0] One can even say "first first-party party app" in this case :)

Fortunately you don't need everyone to be on iOS to reply. So you can send your Android using friends invited and they'll just get a weblink.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by racl101 » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 4:51 PM UTC

It would be nice to move away from Facebook for this sort of thing.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by duxup » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 4:52 PM UTC

ahmeneeroe-v2 wrote: post #63

jbentley1 wrote: post #24

Unless they add some basic functionality to include Android users, this is the evilest use of their walled garden yet.

The EU needs to regulate this

They don't need to because you can RSVP from an Android device.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by probably_wrong » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 4:52 PM UTC

kube-system wrote: post #30

jbentley1 wrote: post #24

Unless they add some basic functionality to include Android users, this is the evilest use of their walled garden yet.

From the third sentence of TFA: > anyone can RSVP, regardless of whether they have an Apple Account or Apple device.

The article also says "collaborative playlists allow Apple Music subscribers to create a curated event soundtrack" so there's clearly a subset of functionality that's only available for certain users. There's "integration with Maps and Weather", but how does that look like in Android? Can I still "contribute to Shared Albums"?

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by nitinreddy88 » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 4:52 PM UTC

anotherhue wrote: post #4

> Creation of invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription.

This is first thing I noticed and Uninstalled

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by resource_waste » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 4:52 PM UTC

Can't wait to see this thread in 60 minutes when the Apple marketers/astroturfers pick a positive organic comment and upvote it to the roof.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by kylebenzle » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 4:52 PM UTC

cglan wrote: post #55

ARandomerDude wrote: post #5

> Anyone can reply to invitations. Creation of invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription.

DOA

I think its great this is an "Apple only" thing. People willing to pay extra $$$ for a status symbol should stick together.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by tssva » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 4:53 PM UTC

kimi wrote: post #23

What's wrong with "create a Whatsapp group and invite all your friends there, and if they don't care they just mute/leave"?

In the US WhatsApp is not widely used. I technically have an account but never installed the app when I moved to my iPhone. I had it installed for years but never used it on my prior Android phones.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by kittikitti » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 4:53 PM UTC

When I did this almost 2 years ago with Midjourney, people came at me and started harassing me. It was just a party invite but people hated that I used AI. I guess I just needed to wait until the gatekeepers or a rich white man to do it for it to be socially acceptable. The pain from these AI luddites was real. I have strongly negative feelings for how Big Tech manipulated everyone into attacking everyone who was doing AI but them. They made it seem like the only ones to protect us from AI was them but the pain this caused didn't go away.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by duxup » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 4:53 PM UTC

frereubu wrote: post #50

pulisse wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> anyone can RSVP, regardless of whether they have an Apple Account or Apple device.

But no-one without an Apple Account can create them - you can only respond to Apple-having friends. There is social pressure in that too.

If I'm inviting someone and they RSVP, that transaction is successful and done to me.

If they use some other system (and people do) I'll respond via that system.