Apple Invites

> Creation of invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription.

Maybe it's just me, but seems a bit extreme for what amounts to a fancy calendar invite.

What's really extreme is that you need an iCloud+ subscription if you want more than 5GB of iCloud storage… so requiring the subscription for this app is not much of a hurdle

Honestly I think it's still a large enough market to get traction. They can always open it up further if it really catches on.

Extreme? A subscription costs $1/mo and includes other features.

Yeah, that’s a dealbreaker right there. On a positive note, hopefully, this will be enough impedance to prevent widespread adoption in my social circle.

>other features

Yeah, for people who own Apple hardware...

Of the 12 services/apps that show up in the iCloud web UI, only "Find My" isn't usable without Apple hardware.

the iBrand hasn't done a good job of explaining that no apple hardware product has to be bought, to sign up to this cloud.

In some ways, "Cloud, by Apple" would have been better because it could have had a subsidiary tagline 'open to anyone' -where iPhone, iPad are pretty solidly walled garden devices.

I'm not in marketing. I am sure smart marketing people would point out downsides. I just think iCloud "says" -not for me, unless I have an iPhone.

Bizarre to launch this feature outside of a regular event given this limitation. It is a nothingburger of a feature (just a clone of existing services) AND it requires you to have a paid subscription.

If I had to assign a dollar value to being able to use this feature on my phone, it would be pennies per month.

iCloud+ is just extra space; the other "features" are free addons.

That's how everyone I know uses it.

Even if some iCloud+ things could work without any Apple devices, I'm not sure why anyone would want it. Most of them only get value from the integration (like hide my email, storage space, etc).

Yes. I think thats true but possibly a result of the strategy to make it compelling to move into the ecology. "Brought to you by apple" would be more openly "meh, you can make other choices" -Apple TV for instance, drives fine through devices able to do the API calls with apple approved client software, its not "sorry go buy an Apple TV" only.

Apple don't sell the Roku or Chromecast devices, basically. So, for Apple TV it's clear you don't have to be iFriendly only.

Probably I'm seduced by how amazingly cheap 1TB of Apple cloud is, compared to the others. Its a LOT cheaper than Google 1 or Microsoft's offering, discounting all the other side benefits.

I thought everyone here has subscription fatigue already.