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Re: Apple Invites

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Post by m463 »

crazygringo wrote: post #454
talldayo wrote: post #359

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> Creation of invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription. I really wonder what the uptake is on iCloud+ subscriptions.

Pretty high I suspect, since you need it if you want to back up more that 5 GB. If you keep photos and videos without dealing with a separate service, it's pretty much a no-brainer. And the cheapest tier is $0.99/mo. for 50 GB so it's not exactly breaking the bank.

> And the cheapest tier is $0.99/mo. for 50 GB so it's not exactly breaking the bank.

This is a huge trick. Like any other service where the most friction is setting up billing... then they can increase the price easily. Do upgrades to other tiers require confirmation?

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by passive »

My wife is an event planner, and events as a technology space has never been great. At this point there's basically Facebook and Eventbrite, both of which are very established in their lanes and face very little competitive pressure.

I don't love the idea of Apple dominating this space either, but there's a lot of opportunity to improve things, so I'm glad to see it.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by zie »

whimsicalism wrote: post #475
zie wrote: post #456

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RCS is not really an open standard though. If you want encrypted RCS with android phones, you can't unless Google lets you. At least that was true last I checked. I'm guessing it hasn't changed.

who are you trying to convince? nobody in the know thinks this is a google problem, the facts are pretty obvious

Google totally controls that ability. Apple is not any better here, but it's weird to call out Apple as being the only meanie here, when both Apple and Google are equally terrible when it comes to cross-platform e2e messaging.

Thankfully we have Signal, which solves the problem better than either platform option.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by massive-sac »

afavour wrote: post #387

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.

I am with you, it's so stale and dull as an offering. No one would even use the calendar stuff even if it was an open format. The fact it isn't even that....

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by bombcar »

ggm wrote: post #347
anotherhue wrote: post #7

> Creation of invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription.

the iBrand hasn't done a good job of explaining that no apple hardware product has to be bought, to sign up to this cloud. In some ways, "Cloud, by Apple" would have been better because it could have had a subsidiary tagline 'open to anyone' -where iPhone, iPad are pretty solidly walled garden devices. I'm not in marketing. I am sure smart marketing people would point out downsides. I just think iCloud "says" -not fo…

Even if some iCloud+ things could work without any Apple devices, I'm not sure why anyone would want it. Most of them only get value from the integration (like hide my email, storage space, etc).

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by pedalpete »

lallysingh wrote: post #476
Hackbraten wrote: post #464

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WhatsApp absolutely has hardware lock-in. You need to be an Apple or Google customer to use it, and you need at least one Android or iOS phone.

They have a desktop version of WhatsApp.

As far as I know, the desktop requires you to sign-in via QR code from a mobile phone that you're logged into whatsapp on.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by ryandrake »

boringg wrote: post #238
happyopossum wrote: post #222

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

Evite was hot for awhile - totally gone downhill. Same as meetups. Tough to make those things as paid businesses which is probably necessary to keep them operating well (or at least take VC money and try and make a return).

For a short period of time back in 2013 or so, we had AnyVite, which was so much better than Evite in all ways. I wonder what happened to them. I think they basically disappeared.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by bombcar »

DRAGONERO wrote: post #70

“Additionally, participants can easily contribute photos and videos to a dedicated Shared Album within each invite to help preserve memories and relive the event.” This sounds like a great feature. Post event photo sharing is always a bit of a mess.

This will be quite nice for Apple Funerals.

Re: Apple Invites

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Post by zie »

dimator wrote: post #467
zie wrote: post #456

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RCS is not really an open standard though. If you want encrypted RCS with android phones, you can't unless Google lets you. At least that was true last I checked. I'm guessing it hasn't changed.

Are you saying if Apple asked Google to sit down and come up with an encrypted RCS working group and get proper interop done, it would be _Google_ that would decline?

Why would Google say yes?
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