It’s not an app I have any use for personally, but it looks cool. Thankfully they did not push it to my iPhone during an update like they did Image Playground.
Apple Invites
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#122Tricky. Now all your friends must have Iphones else they are not invited to your birthday party.
It's like the green bubble - blue bubble thing.
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#123No one will use this
I will literally use this.
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#124When 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 doi…
Wrong thread?
How is this the wrong thread? Apple Invites is exactly like what I was doing with Midjourney a GenAI image generator.
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#125And how does it work for people who aren't indoctrinated by Apple? Are you even allowed to invite them or is it verboten?
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I think its great this is an "Apple only" thing. People willing to pay extra $$$ for a status symbol should stick together.
Status symbol? Here's my take on it - iPhone is dozen a dime here in my country now (3rd world) but iCloud, iMessage are not. iCloud+ is definitely not. People are used to WhatsApp here (just to take an example of messaging apps) and even if they ever stumble upon iMessage they immediately see what a decidedly inferior and opaque oddity that thing is.
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#128Separate app download which requires iOS 18. Neat but will be a pass from me
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I'm surprised more people here don't pay for iCloud for at least the bottom tier storage (50GB). The free 5GB is almost worthless in 2025 for doing nightly backups. I don't back up with Apple Photos but even with "just" app data my nightly auto backups are like 10-15GB.
Even on iPhone there are much better and much cheaper solutions out there (not to mention cross platform) and those have everything a couple of times better than Photos.app and then a bit more. Maybe except Apple's troupe of privacy claims.
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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?
A (for most of the world, in any case) possibly surprising fact about the US is that WhatsApp is not very popular there. This indeed causes problems when wanting to create a quick ad-hoc group for a party invitation etc., if at least one of the invitees is not an iPhone user.
It causes problems if one of the iPhone owners isn't an active iCloud+ subscriber:
> Creation of invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription.
This isn't about making life easier on people, this is about getting you to subscribe to Apple's services for access to a REST API. Apple gets some benefit of the doubt, but this is literally Slop-as-a-Service.