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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.
Unfortunately you need an iPhone to create the invite, or contribute anything else than a reply. They have to know their uncoolness is tolerated but not welcomed in the walled garden.
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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> 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.
Marketplace and groups. Most of my friends are on WhatsApp so we ditched FB. Apple would be smart to build those things and make it available on Android too. Then we could ditch FB altogether.
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…
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
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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.
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 :)
If the plethora of iCalendar email attachments I've seen over the years (despite not owning any Apple devices or using their software) is any indication, I'm not sure that only being on Apple devices will be a significant barrier to people trying to coordinate stuff with this.
My wife is in a position (board chair for a co-op) that results in her sending out a lot of invites to events. Evite has kinda been the go-to in her social/co-op group for ages, but man it suuuuuuucks these days. Ads everywhere, annoying patterns, and lacks a bunch of nice features that this seems to have. Very happy to see this
Brilliant move. The transition of the major social networks over the last 10-15 years -- from being a space for friends to interact to being a space to consume content produced by "unconnected" entities like influencers -- has created a huge opening for someone to claim the friends and family network. There is no one better positioned (at least in the U.S. where iPhones are the majority handset) than Apple.
I'll send an email for free, thankyouverymuch.
Unless they add some basic functionality to include Android users, this is the evilest use of their walled garden yet.
What's preventing Google from competing and making their own better version of this? I don't see where there's anything that Apple is doing here that couldn't be easily replicated by them using their own ecosystem.
The correct way to do this is to publish an open standard/API so 3rd parties can participate.