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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…
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A company creating a useful tool that encourages people to buy their product is incredibly boring, typical, and not at all controversial until it's Apple doing it.
It may have something to do with the duopolistic nature of mobile phones and the absolute size and dominance of Apple.
In this case, Evite, Partiful and Hobnob have been put on notice as Apples expands its services revenues which have grown to roughly 25% of its annual earnings.
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This is first thing I noticed and Uninstalled
But think of the status symbolism! To know that someone has had to spend so much $$$ just to send you a message! Next they should do it for phone calls too!
Tricky. Now all your friends must have Iphones else they are not invited to your birthday party. It's like the green bubble - blue bubble thing.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/introducing-apple-inv...
Not perfect, but something.
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DOA
I think its great this is an "Apple only" thing. People willing to pay extra $$$ for a status symbol should stick together.
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.
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It still requires people to read a text message. It may as well be delivered via carrier pigeon outside the US.
Genuine question, is SMS text delivery unreliable where in certain countries?
Unless they add some basic functionality to include Android users, this is the evilest use of their walled garden yet.
What's wrong with "create a Whatsapp group and invite all your friends there, and if they don't care they just mute/leave"?