Apple Invites App for iPhone Updated – Here's What's New

[RedWeasel]

Always used to be a thing that Apple would always make a universal app, partly to set best practice for developers to follow.

For some reason they stopped caring about that a few years back. Look at Journal for example, if that had been released a decade ago it would be on all platforms from day one. Yet it was iPhone only for 2 years.

And I really don't understand it. Those apps would be perfect example apps for developers... they use a variety of frameworks and are not overly complex.

I remember when Mac OS X 10.0 came out, Apple still followed the NeXT example and included the source code of TextEdit, MailViewer, Stickies, Chess and some other stuff.

 

[CarAnalogy]

And again I have to ask myself, if SwiftUI, SwiftData etc. make it so easy to create apps for all the Apple platforms, why does such a simple app only exist for iOS? Why no macOS or iPadOS version?

This would be a great showcase app and Apple could even provide the source code as an example of "here's how we do it".

It was the same thing with Journal.

I don't know if anyone else has noticed the pattern yet, but all development at Apple is now iPhone only. Internally they call macOS "iOS Developer Edition" and it's not really a joke anymore.

Unless there's a subscription tie-in, all new software is developed for iOS only and lazily ported later, maybe.

 

[RedWeasel]

I don't know if anyone else has noticed the pattern yet, but all development at Apple is now iPhone only. Internally they call macOS "iOS Developer Edition" and it's not really a joke anymore.

Unless there's a subscription tie-in, all new software is developed for iOS only and lazily ported later, maybe.

This is visible also in frameworks like SwiftUI, which still feels like an afterthought on macOS (because it probably is).

 

[jbc25]

I had a little bit of trouble understanding the headline because I mistook "Invites" as a verb, which led me believe App was an entity. Took me a while to realize there's an app called "Invites". LOL 🙂

Not your fault honestly. I think the only people who know that this app exists are the people who made it and some of the regular readers of this site. It's almost completely unknown to anyone else, and will likely stay that way until Apple finally realizes that their current strategies with social apps do not work.

 

[jbc25]

Almost everyone is paying at least $1.00 for iCloud+.

You'd be surprised how many people are totally unwilling to pay even a dollar for iCloud. I know some of them. Paying for things like online storage is still kinda foreign for some people.

 

[Rafagon]

never heard of invite app 😳

I invite you to try it.

 

[svish]

While it is good to know the changes, I have not yet used the app despite having full access to the app. Not sure how many are using this!