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Re: Apple Invites

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Post by briandear »

echelon wrote: post #334
svnt wrote: post #325

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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.

I don’t want the uncool Android kids at my parties. Because then I have to listen to them droning on about the kids of things Android people drone on about.

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Post by TheDong »

briandear wrote: post #356
echelon wrote: post #349

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It shouldn't be allowed in the US. Lina Khan was going to put a stop to it, but tragically that didn't reach its culmination.

Why? Does the color affect functionality or are we going to pass laws based on feelings?

It does. If you try to send a photo in an inferior green bubble chat, you get an error. Face time calls don’t work.

The text is harder to read for me because it’s low contrast and can’t be configured.

It’s significantly less secure, and a government agent required I use blue bubble imessage to submit an important document for security, and wouldn’t accept it by sms or email since both were not secure enough

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Post by ryanmcbride »

I don't use facebook so I currently invite my friends to various events and parties by texting the same image with the info to a bunch of groupchats and a few individuals, if this makes that cleaner I'd be pretty happy.

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Post by crmd »

Zak wrote: post #341
pkamb wrote: post #256

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I think Apple already has claimed the "friends and family network" via iMessage. Did Facebook go to a groups/influencer algorithm by choice or is it the result of IRL friend posters all moving to private chats once everyone got iPhones?

That's only true if everyone in the group has an Apple phone, which has decreasing probability with every additional member. Excluding people from a conversation because they don't have the right brand of phone would be pretty antisocial.

Unfortunately it happens all the time in my friends circle, and it's for technical not anti-social reasons. Group texts that include Android users are so buggy that they tend to die out, whereas iMessage-only groups tend to be long lasting. For this reason we use WhatsApp for the core group chat, but there's still a ton of side-conversations and meme-ing in iMessage groups.

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Post by pbronez »

lordofgibbons wrote: post #362

I really hope this fails. Apple will use it's dominant position to create lock in like how they did with iMessage instead of cooperating with other platforms on a common standard. Oder friends and family are surprised when they want to video call over Facetime and find it hard to believe other people's phones don't have Apple apps.

> Guests can view and respond to an invitation using the new iPhone app or on the web without needing an iCloud+ subscription or an Apple Account.

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Post by 6thbit »

How come through this people with any device can add photos to a shared album, but not through regular shared albums?

On that note: how to get cross platform shared photo album without pain or google?

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Post by afavour »

How deathly boring this all is.

On one hand it’s a good thing: so many invite services are coated in ads they deserve to fail. On the other, yet another service getting sucked up into the tech giant blob.

If open formats prevailed we would have expanded calendar invites so they just appear in your inbox like any other email for free. But alas, everyone has given up on that.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by astrange »

TheDong wrote: post #382
briandear wrote: post #356

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Why? Does the color affect functionality or are we going to pass laws based on feelings?

It does. If you try to send a photo in an inferior green bubble chat, you get an error. Face time calls don’t work. The text is harder to read for me because it’s low contrast and can’t be configured. It’s significantly less secure, and a government agent required I use blue bubble imessage to submit an important document for security, and wouldn’t accept it by sms or email since both were not secure enough

That should work now because of RCS.

Email is secure enough though. People make up security rules in their heads all the time, doesn't mean it's true.

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Post by saagarjha »

furyofantares wrote: post #277
silisili wrote: post #194

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I'm skeptical of the implementation, given iMessage. I'm sure Android users RSVPs will show up in a green toxic fume cloud or some such.

Did you know that in iMessage, Android user texts are the same color as iOS user messages? It's true. As the iOS user, it is your own messages that are green or blue depending on whether it was sent using iMessage or SMS. It's useful feedback about whether your message was sent on a reliable channel. I know it became a whole thing and that Apple has allowed it to remain as such. But it's not really an apt analogy.

Do you not view RCS as being a reliable channel?

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Post by kmeisthax »

stevage wrote: post #307
matsemann wrote: post #302

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> You do not need to own an Apple device to either create events You need an "iCloud+" account to create, though. Which I as a non-apple user have no idea what is, and probably is useless for me to pay for not using anything apple beforehand.

I use a MacBook and I swear this is the first time I have heard of iCloud+.

If you're paying for more iCloud storage, you have iCloud+.
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