Feels like an app you’d release to use as partial justification for a price increase in Apple One. “Hey, look at this new Invites app. It’s free!” and then a few months later “…Invites is one of our great new features that totally makes our new price increase justifiable…”
I’m admittedly a cynic, though, so I’m probably wrong.
Used it today for a Super Bowl party. Guests can’t indicate how many are in their group. I guess everyone is supposed to rsvp individually?
I don’t see that happening. Microsoft started working on collaboration many years ago and they still are not close to matching Google. I guess it’s difficult to build a hybrid on-device/cloud solution that is as efficient as a cloud only solution.
In any event Craig Federighi told WSJ 's Joanna Stern that Apple Intelligence “ is a many-year, honestly, even decades-long arc of this technology playing out, . . . ". Sounds like AI is going to keep them busy for quite a while.
I’m not sure Microsoft is so far off anymore. At work, several of us have excel files and power point decks open in the native app (not web site) and edit simultaneously without issue. I know there used to be a big gap, but what you can do with the Office applications now is pretty impressive.
I’ll take your word for that. I rarely used Excel after changing jobs in 2000. OpenOffice/
LibreOffice was usually all I needed, and I’ve been using Sheets since I retired.
Apple rarely justifies price increases to users directly.
Notching all of the iCloud storage tiers one place e.g. 50GB for free, 200GB for £1.99 a month, for £5.99 a month. That’s an increase that would be justified.