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Re: Apple Invites

#91

Post by readdit » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 4:54 PM UTC

moralestapia wrote: post #60

I hope this doesn't take off at all as it would be a net-negative for everyone involved. The whole "app for events" experience is a complete piece of crap with the exception of lu.ma perhaps. "Oh you're not an Apple user, whoops you can't RSVP" is a giant step towards enshittifying them even more.

Anyone can rsvp.

Re: Apple Invites

#92

Post by morsecodist » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 4:54 PM UTC

pulisse wrote: post #39

morsecodist wrote: post #20

Unfortunately, I have to hope this doesn't see widespread adoption. If this becomes the standard it will just add to already existing social pressure to get an iPhone in the US.

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

I think that's preferable to them being totally unable to RSVP but you're still going to be the friend that can't make the invite. It's comparable to iMessage. You can still talk to Android users but it's a notably worse experience.

Re: Apple Invites

#93

Post by kylebenzle » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 4:54 PM UTC

nitinreddy88 wrote: post #75

anotherhue wrote: post #4

> Creation of invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription.

This is first thing I noticed and Uninstalled

But think of the status symbolism! To know that someone has had to spend so much $$$ just to send you a message! Next they should do it for phone calls too!

Re: Apple Invites

#94

Post by tssva » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 4:54 PM UTC

king_magic wrote: post #6

ctrl-f "android", expected result

"anyone can RSVP, regardless of whether they have an Apple Account or Apple device." It's in the 1st paragraph.

Re: Apple Invites

#95

Post by crossroadsguy » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 4:54 PM UTC

cleverwebble wrote: post #51

I'm in my mid-thirties and most of my friends have ditched Facebook. I didn't really realize this until when I used it to create an event for a house party... I was somewhat surprised that only 2 people out of 15 even saw it. I ended up resorting to good old text message and that worked, but it was tedious. Not sure how popular this will become, but having a social-media-less event invite/broadcasting system would be…

Here friends just send a message on WhatsApp. I do not know anyone who has hosted a house party of 79800 people so that they are struggling with this. But then again I guess some geographies have it more complicated, isn't it?

Re: Apple Invites

#96

Post by probably_wrong » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 4:55 PM UTC

openchampagne wrote: post #45

probably_wrong wrote: post #26

Does anyone know how this interacts with guests using Android? All I see is "anyone is able to respond" but that was already possible with literally anything else.

“iCloud+ subscribers can create invitations, and anyone can RSVP, regardless of whether they have an Apple Account or Apple device” & When I create an Event in the app i see the ability to share via a Public Link, Mail, & Messages

RSVPing is clearly accessible to everyone, but how about all the other features? Namely, the "integration with Maps and Weather" and "contribute to Shared Albums". I already know I can only contribute to the "curated event soundtrack" if I have an Apple Music subscription, but those other ones are still unclear.

Re: Apple Invites

#97

Post by HumblyTossed » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 4:55 PM UTC

Interesting. So a lot of people still use FB for doing this. I wonder if this will be the tool for getting them off of FB finally.

Re: Apple Invites

#98

Post by egypturnash » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 4:55 PM UTC

"Requires iOS 18 or later". Well nobody will be inviting me to any parties with this, I'm still using a 6s.

Re: Apple Invites

#99

Post by dewey » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 4:55 PM UTC

resource_waste wrote: post #76

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.

Or maybe people are just excited that there’s something new in this space that’s not Facebook Events?

Re: Apple Invites

#100

Post by ninininino » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 4:55 PM UTC

cleverwebble wrote: post #51

I'm in my mid-thirties and most of my friends have ditched Facebook. I didn't really realize this until when I used it to create an event for a house party... I was somewhat surprised that only 2 people out of 15 even saw it. I ended up resorting to good old text message and that worked, but it was tedious. Not sure how popular this will become, but having a social-media-less event invite/broadcasting system would be…

For people in their early 20s to mid 30s in the NYC area, I'm starting to see mass adoption of an app called Partiful for managing social invites and events, it has a lot of nice features for sending invites, RSVP management, sending text blasts out to attendees (you can schedule reminders the day before or whatever).