New Apple App - Invites

I would’ve never guessed that Apple was working on an Invite app.

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If it could also handle coming to consensus on a date to host an event, this would become one of my most used apps :face_holding_back_tears:

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Why does it say “friend and family” ? What about enemies you want to lure into an ambush with a deceptive invite?

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I can’t think of a more pointless app - though I guess in the US it might make more sense?

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Androiders are not allowed to have friends apparently. :rofl:

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This is the main reason I use very few Apple apps.

As always, Apple keeps appleing, and releases it for iPhone only.

It’s an app that would make so much sense, full screen on iPad, but Noooooooooooo!

It has a Web front end apparently for non iOS invitees

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Cough Journal App Cough

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I think I read that it does not require an iCloud account or even an Apple device to respond to an invite.

@MurphysLaw

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True but the app can be installed on an iPad and seems to work fine. But yes, agreed, would be greatly appreciated if new apps could come iPad ready. Apple, being a small company is probably pretty resource constrained. :joy:

It took them ‘only’ 8 months to release Classical for the iPad. If only some framework or something similar would enable apps to be universal across platforms and scale automatically…

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I believe that is correct. But I don’t don’t like any solution that doesn’t offer everyone the same experience. This, IMO, would be like mailing some people an engraved invitation and sending an email to others.

Exactly. It’s not good enough

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On the iPad you can login to iCloud in Safari and it is one of the Web apps alongside calendar, mail, etc. You can even setup events in the Web app, not just view them. So that is your answer for the Mac and iPad.

It’s not good enough, iPad and MacOS are being treated as second class citizens.

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I think Apple Intelligence may be the first nine items on Apple’s Top 10 list. They have cancelled their electric car and smart glasses. Put Vision Pro on the back burner and reassigned programmers and executives to the AI project. And while they are advertising AI as ‘available now’ all they have delivered is a few items of, IMO, little value.

Their actions remind me of my favorite Mexican restaurant. They have great food and great service but sometimes they get real busy. The kitchen gets backed up and we are left waiting for our food. But they keep serving us chips and salsa, and refilling out drinks.

Apple is doing the same thing with Genmoji, Image Playground, and Invites, etc. They keep giving us appetizers because the main course may be years away.

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Is it just me, or does this have shades of “Clips” about it? Very niche (in their lineup), iPhone only, no-one was predicting it nor asking for it.

It is, I think, another app designed for the people Apple features in its promotional material. If you’re a fit 18-35 living in San Francisco with no ties and tons of friends, it’s brilliant.

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This app can ask people for a date and time.