I have been wanting a feature like this for YEARS! Regular Calendar invites to meetings and events suck... I want to quickly invite other iPhone users and friends thru iMessage. iCal always wants an email and I just want to use phone numbers.
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Apple May Launch New iCloud Invite Tool Codenamed 'Confetti' This Week
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are they increasing the storage of the starting option because its been the same forever and needs to be updated
They just leaving the wreckage that is calendar and reminders and just shipping this bit then?
My post is not complaining? This is no different then Classical app arriving on iPhones, there is no cost involved.
What about the already existing event invite service named Confetti? It’s been around for at least 10 years. https://confetti.events/en
If this isn't baked into Calendar, and becomes its own bespoke app, this is one of the dumbest decisions Apple has ever made.
I never thought I'd say this, but Microsoft Outlook/Teams/Calendar/Planner blows Apple Mail/Messages(?)/Calendar/Reminders out of the water.
I never thought I'd say this, but Microsoft Outlook/Teams/Calendar/Planner blows Apple Mail/Messages(?)/Calendar/Reminders out of the water.
You must live in a country where WhatsApp is dominantI do all my inviting for MidSummer, Crayfish, Vappu, Pikkujoulu and other parties using WhatsApp. Simple to do and everyone I care about responds promptly as I throw great parties
Yes, pretty much anywhere outside the US. Most iPhone users here avoid iMessage.
That's because you think about saving money for yourself.
Honestly, I think people should pay for iCloud storage.
Very few things in life, should be free.
Time to make a backup before something happens
Sounds like the beginnings of yet another social networking service. Imagine it telling you the previous events you attended with [person] based on history, all while in the background AI is analyzing the social behavior of group gatherings, like an anthropologist studying an isolated tribe.
Which is one of the reasons I'll never have any interest or use for this.
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What makes you jump to the conclusion that it's only for iPhone owners? They talk about iCloud, it could very well be app-based for iPhone users and have a web app for non-iPhone users.
What about it? Indications are that "Confetti" is the internal code name, and the references in iOS are to an app named "Invites". Should another company get upset that they used a theme related word as an internal code name for a project?
(Actually, there's and old story that Apple had a project decades ago with the internal code name Sagan, and Carl Sagan heard about it and got upset, so they VH anger the code name for the project to "Butthead Astronomer".)
You… You do realise people managed to send out event invitations long before the internet was a thing, right?
