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    Apple Invites

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    651 points openchampagne | 11 comments | | HN request time: 1.038s | source | bottom
    1. ARandomerDude ◴[] No.42934697[source]
    > Anyone can reply to invitations. Creation of invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription.
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    2. cglan ◴[] No.42934923[source]
    DOA
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    3. kylebenzle ◴[] No.42935022[source]
    I think its great this is an "Apple only" thing. People willing to pay extra $$$ for a status symbol should stick together.
    replies(2): >>42935191 #>>42935651 #
    4. darknavi ◴[] No.42935087[source]
    I'm surprised more people here don't pay for iCloud for at least the bottom tier storage (50GB). The free 5GB is almost worthless in 2025 for doing nightly backups. I don't back up with Apple Photos but even with "just" app data my nightly auto backups are like 10-15GB.
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    5. crossroadsguy ◴[] No.42935191{3}[source]
    Status symbol? Here's my take on it - iPhone is dozen a dime here in my country now (3rd world) but iCloud, iMessage are not. iCloud+ is definitely not. People are used to WhatsApp here (just to take an example of messaging apps) and even if they ever stumble upon iMessage they immediately see what a decidedly inferior and opaque oddity that thing is.
    6. crossroadsguy ◴[] No.42935213{3}[source]
    Even on iPhone there are much better and much cheaper solutions out there (not to mention cross platform) and those have everything a couple of times better than Photos.app and then a bit more. Maybe except Apple's troupe of privacy claims.
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    7. nozzlegear ◴[] No.42935651{3}[source]
    It's literally $0.99/month in the US for the cheapest iCloud+ plan. That's not much of a status symbol.

    Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/108047

    8. r00fus ◴[] No.42937004[source]
    That's their beta group before releasing it to all for iOS (and possibly Android later on).
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    9. scarface_74 ◴[] No.42938934{4}[source]
    Can I use these more and better alternatives to back up everything on all of my iOS devices?
    10. pseudalopex ◴[] No.42939669[source]
    Where did they say this?
    11. willseth ◴[] No.42940345{4}[source]
    Like what? I use Backblaze B2 to backup all my non-Apple stuff and that's $6/TB/mo. iCloud's 2TB plan is $10/mo, so actually cheaper per TB, but with Backblaze you only pay for what you use so it may be cheaper. But pricing is pretty comparable, and I can't even imagine what a PITA it would be to use B2 for Apple stuff, so certainly seems like a good value. Are you saying there are even cheaper solutions that also have good Apple integration?