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Re: Apple Invites

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Post by mrguyorama »

ghaff wrote: post #232
mvieira38 wrote: post #210

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

The whole green bubble thing has got to be one of the stupidest status symbol things I've seen in a long time. Though I have no doubt there are many of them. If anything, it's maybe a good life lesson that many supposed status symbols are breathtakingly stupid to care about.

>some supposed status symbols are breathtakingly stupid to care about.

All status symbols are stupid, that's part of the point. That has never mattered. It doesn't matter how stupid a symbol is, it can still have tangible effects on you and your life.

Humans are social animals first and foremost, and are not rational in any way. Tribalism is literally the point.

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Post by RRL »

Reason077 wrote: post #195
ninininino wrote: post #100

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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).

In fact, Apple Invites appears to be a direct response to the popularity of Partiful.

Yeah, this is straight up f.lux 2.0 where Apple saw an idea take off, and unlike 'Nightshift' where they connected it to their new 'Health' product to stimulate Apple Watch purchases, they connected Apple Invites to social behaviors to stimulate iMessage and iCloud adoption and revenues.

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Post by ghaff »

pgwhalen wrote: post #296
ghaff wrote: post #282

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Though iMessage largely works in part because it's pretty much transparent if you send a text message.

I’m not sure I understand the “though” in this message but yeah, definitely the user interface of this social network is messaging.

Just the way I wrote the reply. It's unnecessary. Yes, you send a text and it's iMessage or not iMessage. Doesn't matter. There are some nuances if you're on your Mac with your phone off/on an international SIM (which I admit to not totally understanding).

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Post by echelon »

svnt wrote: post #325
nostromo wrote: post #317

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I organize a lot of events for a rugby team, and our events are now all on Partiful. Maybe it'll go downhill like Evite and Facebook Events - but for now it's quite good.

How is it funded? That is your answer.

Not everything is in the position or can afford to transitionally tax the whole of the internet itself like big tech.

You're paying for Apple Invites whether you realize it or not. There's immense value in making their platform more sticky.

In a few years you'll read articles about uncool Android kids not getting invited to parties. And that's your answer.

One of these behaviors is way more insidious.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by dialup_sounds »

RIMR wrote: post #213
roddylindsay wrote: post #28

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.

The problem is that by vendor-locking these services to Apple users, they create an environment that alienates non-Apple users. If they want to truly claim the friends & family network, they need to remember that everyone has friends & family that aren't in the Apple ecosystem. So long as Facebook remains available to everyone, even if the content feed is a mess, the event planning space is going to be more accessibl…

I'm not convinced they're leaving a lot of money on the table by pitching a free app at a billion iPhone users vs. the famously lucrative Linux desktop market.

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Post by Alifatisk »

What a great idea, my friend was working on an almost identical idea but built using Flutter instead.

A couple of downsides with this is:

- Only for Apple users

- Requires iCloud+

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by mjamesaustin »

svnt wrote: post #325
nostromo wrote: post #317

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I organize a lot of events for a rugby team, and our events are now all on Partiful. Maybe it'll go downhill like Evite and Facebook Events - but for now it's quite good.

How is it funded? That is your answer.

Currently Partiful doesn't generate revenue, which is evidence for its quality. As soon as the purse strings get attached, it'll be time to get out. But for now, it's an excellent service.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by ghaff »

whstl wrote: post #292
ghaff wrote: post #247

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>People don't really read or check emails because spam became a serious problem. With the tabs in Gmail, very little leaks through to my primary inbox that isn't relatively immediately relevant (and not a lot of mail total). Often don't look at Promotions at all and maybe glance at Updates once a day or so. Email is useful for me though, yes, a lot of my interaction with my circle of friends is over texts.

The problem for me is not so much real spam, this gets filtered. The problem is the massive amount of work required to unsubscribe or clean up automated emails from apps and websites, both transactional and non-transactional. I know way too many techy and non-techy people who have thousands of unread email messages from those apps. A lot of people I know don't really answer to real email anymore, unless they know som…

Experiences differ. I did go on unsubscribe jags from time to time at my last employer because I ended up on email lists from a lot of events.

But really, I get 5-10 emails a day now in my primary inbox and I don't really have many filters. I DO get a lot in Promotions and Updates, but most of the stuff in Promos I can safely ignore and I mostly keep my eye on Updates if I'm expecting something I might want to deal with there.

Email is still my primary channel for the most part.

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