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Re: Apple Invites

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Post by Invictus0 »

cptcobalt wrote: post #14

This era of new experimental apps from Apple (Invites, Journal, Sports) has me excited about the future of app design. Vibrant colors, bold personality-driven typography, etc. The SwiftUI style onboarding screen that features the carousel is really fun. This approach feels very Apple'y, but gives me more freedom to explore designs for my own app to have its own unique voice on iOS, while still feeling in-family with…

The journal app is freaking garbage. It took 2 major iOS versions before they added the ability to export your notes!

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by tcmart14 »

wenc wrote: post #186
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…

Platform fragmentation is a generational thing. I thought email was a common denominator but I learned most people don’t check email or check it rarely. So different from the days when everyone had email. I still use FB and so do many of my friends my age (mid to late 40s). But a bunch have also migrated to Instagram. Among the younger generation, you’re a millennial if you’re on instagram because they’ve moved to Ti…

I wonder if it is rooted in similar things though. Right, like with email. People don't really read or check emails because spam became a serious problem. Then with social media, looking at facebook, there is definitely a big different in ad space in facebook between the time I used to use it to now. Where ads have effectively become the "spam" equivalent for social media. Ultimately, did success of these technologies also lead to its demise. Email was so good, so it made sense for a market of spammers. Facebook became a prime place for ads, and as ads become more and more of the platform, people started to consciously or subconsciously step away to other platforms.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by cyberax »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #158
barbazoo wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Genuine question, is SMS text delivery unreliable where in certain countries?

It's unneeded because phones have affordable/free access to the Internet these days, SMS is a relic of the 20th century.

And the alternative on iOS is...? What exactly?

RCS is a flaming trash dump of failure.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by ghaff »

lxgr wrote: post #106
crossroadsguy wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The only reason I have WhatsApp is that a couple non-US friends use it from time to time. No one I know in the US does anything other than standard text messaging whether or not it ends up being iMessage.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by WorldMaker »

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"?

Some of the timing of this app seems coincided with something of a large exodus from Meta/Facebook's apps. WhatsApp never quite caught on in the US, but Facebook Events did. (They are both Meta/Facebook apps today. The feature sets are, somewhat similar here.) A lot of my friends have been looking for replacements for Facebook Events, so this is somewhat timely for those that like Apple apps as a replacement.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by yalogin »

Looks like they brainstormed and found a way to use AI for their users. It could be useful as an engagement tool but weird that they found evites as the way to go

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by ghaff »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #158
barbazoo wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Genuine question, is SMS text delivery unreliable where in certain countries?

It's unneeded because phones have affordable/free access to the Internet these days, SMS is a relic of the 20th century.

Apple may not be exactly jumping in joy about it but, even if it's mostly only useful for people in the US, they probably don't see that as a showstopper either.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by smackeyacky »

throw0101d wrote: post #188
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…

> I'm in my mid-thirties and most of my friends have ditched Facebook. Marketplace seems to be one of the main use cases that's still relatively popular.

It's also the only bit of Facebook that hasn't turned into an endless stream of trash. I expect that not to last either, if you're looking for an idea then a localised marketplace alternative with social proof should be on your radar.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by rconti »

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"?

I don't use WhatsApp, though I probably have it installed on my phone.

I'm in a birthday party planning group on Signal, which is another app I hadn't used in years. It's easy to forget I have messages there because it's not on my home screen, or the notification settings are different from my normal Messages app, or I just forget to look.

Each time you use a "different" app for something that's not in your habit loop, your response time gets delayed and you're less likely to notice communications. An app needs to get fairly regular use to become as useful as a primary app, even if, from a technical standpoint, there's nothing wrong with them.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by mvieira38 »

jbentley1 wrote: post #24

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

Imagine being a teen with an Android in the Apple Invite age, the bullying will go crazy
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