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Re: Apple Invites

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Post by nonchalantsui » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 11:04 PM UTC

Melatonic wrote: post #395

nonchalantsui wrote: post #289

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The Apple TV one is particularly bad due to them naming the service, the box, and the app the same thing. One of them has a + tacked on, who knows which. As long as they don’t start naming other things Invite, they might avoid that issue. Although maybe they’ll name their HomePod with a screen that and we’re back to square one.

Seriously - not sure what they were thinking - but this confuses the hell out of everyone (especially if they have the Apple TV+ app installed on their smart TV directly and an Apple TV physical box hooked to the same TV)

Let's just hope they don't start producing TVs (the screens) alongside all of this!

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by numpad0 » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 11:04 PM UTC

dewey wrote: post #138

kittikitti wrote: post #124

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How is this the wrong thread? Apple Invites is exactly like what I was doing with Midjourney a GenAI image generator.

I had a hard time connecting your comment to an event booking app. But I guess you are talking about the Memoji integration?

Some of images in the link are AI generated. Some people instantly notice AI generated contents, some don't.

It seems to me that this realization is often accompanied by deep emotional negativity, regardless of opinions.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by furyofantares » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 11:04 PM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #389

furyofantares wrote: post #277

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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?

I don't view SMS as reliable. It was only a couple years ago that I switched to Signal for a friend after our texts back and forth had been silently dropped one too many times.

I don't know how long RCS has been around, but my impression is most or all of my messages until recently were SMS.

iMessage now says "Text Message - RCS" or "Text Message - SMS" in the text entry box which is better than the green/blue bubble thing (though it does still have that).

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by dmitrygr » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 11:04 PM UTC

Finally! I only maintain my facebook account since all big skydiving events are organized on it. Nothing else has approached the convenience. If this is what does it, awesome!

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by tick_tock_tick » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 11:05 PM UTC

echelon wrote: post #349

astrange wrote: post #344

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This green text thing only happens in the US. Nobody really uses iMessage elsewhere.

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.

> Lina Khan was going to put a stop to it, but tragically that didn't reach its culmination.

Lets not kid ourselves she was going to keep focusing on minimum impact, likely to fail cases with good optics, and inventing more obtuse interpretations of anti-trust law while continuing to ignore any real monopolies she could.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by ed_mercer » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 11:05 PM UTC

Anyone else who thinks the birthday cake looks disturbing?

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by yumraj » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 11:05 PM UTC

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.

But isn’t that the same when people and schools create effing Facebook groups and events or whatever they are called and find it hard to believe that people don’t use that crap. Or create WhatsApp groups and communities and so on and on.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by pnw » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 11:06 PM UTC

42772827 wrote: post #346

slt2021 wrote: post #323

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I see people using Luma everywhere these days

Luma and Gemini have very similar logos, it’s kind of off putting

Luma drives me nuts at conferences, I often end up invited to events without an address because they expect you to subscribe to their calendar feed rather than letting me put an entry in my own calendar.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by sbuk » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 11:06 PM UTC

dboreham wrote: post #358

Brystephor wrote: post #274

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Software engineer here with an android phone. I've never bothered to look into Apple TV because I assumed it'd only be available on Apple devices. Similarly, I saw this post and thought there may be a reason for me to get an iPhone now as I assumed this would be available on apple devices only.

I'm only aware it doesn't need an Apple device because spouse does have an iPhone and was able to set it up on our Roku that way. I still assume that someone in the household does need an iPhone in order to get a subscription, although now I think about it probably that's not true.

You can subscribe to Apple TV+ directly through Amazon Prime.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by flutas » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 11:06 PM UTC

astrange wrote: post #388

TheDong wrote: post #382

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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.

Tbh Apple's RCS implementation is so buggy it almost has me on the "they added bugs to keep people off of it" conspiracy train.

As in, during a conversation my phone would send RCS and the iPhone would reply with SMS only. This has happened multiple times with multiple people, and some where RCS won't let us communicate - the messages just disappear into the void, but only when sent from the iPhone.

https://i.imgur.com/FrMfECA.png