Apple Launches New 'Invites' App

[johnsawyercjs]

It would be a silly conspiracy, for what must literally be like .00001% of users.

I don't see it so much as a conspiracy as a mystery

 

[j26]

Could be, but I doubt it. Data they have that we don't:

How many users are out there do you think, who have iPads and Macs, but don't have an iPhone?

*Maybe* 1 in . . . 500? Maybe?

Maybe slightly more who are just Mac users. But like, how many of those use iCloud+ and are likely to be customers for this thing?

I do part time tutoring and lecturing and all of the students have an iPad (it's mandatory for the course), but based on what I've seen, I'd say about half of them have Android phones. I myself have a Mac and an iPad, but a Samsung phone.

It's not that uncommon.

But it's irrelevant to me - I have no use for an invites app

 

[thecombatwombat]

I do part time tutoring and lecturing and all of the students have an iPad (it's mandatory for the course), but based on what I've seen, I'd say about half of them have Android phones. I myself have a Mac and an iPad, but a Samsung phone.

It's not that uncommon.

But it's irrelevant to me - I have no use for an invites app

I didn't say it's zero . . . I bet cases like that, literally, make up about 1 in 500. It's a very small number.

And since those ipads can run iphone apps but not the other way around . . .

And since probably literally zero of those students and you with Android phones are iCloud+ subscribers . . .

 

[NutSoft]

Probably one of those cute ideas that will go nowhere. Discontinued in a few years, I’m calling it.

I’m not so sure; my wife is a sports coach and uses similar apps to coordinate players and their signups to training sessions and matches. Having this included in our Apple One subscription might be a better option for her? 🤷‍♂️

 

[centauratlas]

it is too bad they didn't test Apple Invites with Advanced Data Protection turned on. It appears that the only way to view the invitation or respond is to turn ADP off and that's not happening. A very bad design.

Edit: it turns out that the host had a setting wrong, and that was the issue, but that still seems like something that's a bad design to allow it to get to that point.

 

[akbarali.ch]

nice idea, i see it growing and few years probably you will ask how we even managed an event without this app.

I also didn't like how it was behind the paywall. but they should atleast allow icloud+ user to choose someone non icloud+ if needed to manage the even.