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Testing Apple's New Invites App for Event Planning

Graphate said:
Goofy aside, I *think* the core feature of creating an event, adding invitees, and checking if they’ve accepted has long been available. This is a separate service that, at least with briefly testing it, seems useful (in real practice, it might not).

*The prior existing event+invite feature on the calendar might be more of a function of the email provider, so I could be wrong. But then it’s just always been available in “iCal” with every email provider I’ve used for at least the last 15 years.

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If my friends have iCloud emails, from the calendar app it is easy to create/share/RAVP. But if they use gmail, it is always a hit or miss if they ever get it on their calendars.
I still think this should have been implanted as a useful feature in the calendar app.
This new app doesn’t even provide the opportunity for the participants find the best time for everyone. It’s just a glorified e-invite with “apple intelligence” playground.
Again, just my opinion.
 
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Total garbage... you can't add the event to your calendar if you don't have the app (the icon is just greyed out). The app also requires iOS 18... which is an unnecessary technical requirement.
 
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guttbinder said:
Total garbage... you can't add the event to your calendar if you don't have the app (the icon is just greyed out). The app also requires iOS 18... which is an unnecessary technical requirement.
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Doing some more testing... but the greyed out icon/inability to add as a calendar event is seen when being viewed on Chrome on iOS and logged into iCloud with an Apple ID that is a gmail email address.
 
ifxf said:
Facebook is for old people, everyone else uses WhatsApp
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I'm 36 and while FB isn't my platform of choice, and I rarely use it, most the people I knew growing up and family are on there. I think it also does its events feature pretty well, and it makes it easier to keep track of concerts, for example, when bands/venues I follow post their show dates on there.

Not a single person I know uses WhatsApp (also owned by Meta/Facebook btw), but maybe it's more common outside of the United States. Otherwise yes, I'd agree it's a platform mainly for old people at this point.
 
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morphineseason said:
I'm 36 and while FB isn't my platform of choice, and I rarely use it, most the people I knew growing up and family are on there. I think it also does its events feature pretty well, and it makes it easier to keep track of concerts, for example, when bands/venues I follow post their show dates on there.

Not a single person I know uses WhatsApp, but maybe it's more common outside of the United States. Otherwise yes, I'd agree it's a platform mainly for old people at this point.
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Speaking as a relatively old person (67) I don’t use any social media aside from MacRumors. Email & Texting are just fine for me… 😉
 
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morphineseason said:
I'm 36 and while FB isn't my platform of choice, and I rarely use it, most the people I knew growing up and family are on there. I think it also does its events feature pretty well, and it makes it easier to keep track of concerts, for example, when bands/venues I follow post their show dates on there.

Not a single person I know uses WhatsApp, but maybe it's more common outside of the United States. Otherwise yes, I'd agree it's a platform mainly for old people at this point.
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So this is actually a fun fact.
Yes, whatsapp is everywhere outside of the united states and there's a reason.

Once upon a time people did not have internet on their phones (as we can all remember).
Then internet on mobile phones happened. But European carriers refused for years to just give people free sms even if at that point they were completely useless.

The consequence of that was that all europeans were slowly forced to learn, install and use whatsapp (that a that time was the only chat app available) because the price of a plan with internet (and therefore free whatsapp texts) was basically almost the same than texts but no internet.

In the united states there was not the same situation because at that time they already had plans with free and often unlimited sms and a lot of people didn't bother learning and changing behavior if not way later when there were several chat apps availbale (and then ios and android just added internet protocol in the normal text app so even today a lot of people still don't use chat apps because there's no big reason to do it).
 
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Sundaypapers123 said:
Why on earth is this not a free app? If they want it to be ubiquitous they need to make it accessible to all.
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They don’t want it to be ubiquitous? Other companies (Meta, Epic) big ideas regarding making money is “give everything away for below cost and then, eventually, we’ll make a profit.” Apple realizes doing something like this for the WHOLE world without being ad supported is the path of Meta and Epic.

So, instead, they limit it to iPhone users, and then, only those with iOS18, so it’s additionally folks that have actually purchased a phone recently. Besides, if anyone wants this for free, I’m sure there’s a LOT of ad driven options out there. Probably a few pay options, too.
 
where does it place the app on the phone? didnt seem to appear on the Home Screen page for me.
 
cflem said:
I don't get how a $3T company can put out apps like Journal, Sports, and now Invites... without making them universal... no iPad or Mac apps... Just wild... That is absolutely not difficult to do.
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Classical was also iPhone-only for a long time (and, of course, Calculator took forever to get to the iPad).

Maybe Apple should look into hiring some iOS developers who are qualified to make universal apps.
 
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Mitochris said:
Why is apple making all these childish-looking thing recently? Are we back in the skeumorphism days? This looks so unprofessional. I hate all this crappy looking AI stuff. It’s just not professional.
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Agree totally

It boggles my mind that adults want to have "Toy Story Avatars" all over the place on their communications

Are peoples brains melting down or something?

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