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    Apple Invites

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    651 points openchampagne | 19 comments | 04 Feb 25 16:21 UTC | HN request time: 1.088s | source | bottom
    1. kimi ◴[04 Feb 25 16:43 UTC] No.42934798[source]▶
    What's wrong with "create a Whatsapp group and invite all your friends there, and if they don't care they just mute/leave"?
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    2. duxup ◴[04 Feb 25 16:44 UTC] No.42934830[source]▶
    For me it would be ... I don't use Whatsapp and I don't know many who do.

    Can I send invites from Whatsapp and get responses from people who don't use it?

    Honestly I've never received one.

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    3. ggregoire ◴[04 Feb 25 16:46 UTC] No.42934882[source]▶
    they don't use Whatsapp in the US
    4. parl_match ◴[04 Feb 25 16:47 UTC] No.42934895[source]▶
    I don't have Whatsapp, but I do have an iPhone.
    5. ahmeneeroe-v2 ◴[04 Feb 25 16:49 UTC] No.42934934[source]▶
    Americans don't really do whatsapp
    6. tssva ◴[04 Feb 25 16:53 UTC] No.42935029[source]▶
    In the US WhatsApp is not widely used. I technically have an account but never installed the app when I moved to my iPhone. I had it installed for years but never used it on my prior Android phones.
    7. frizlab ◴[04 Feb 25 16:57 UTC] No.42935125[source]▶
    I’m in the EU, don’t use whatsapp but know a sh*tton of people around me do. It annoys me greatly and I truly hope I’ll be able to move them away little by little now that RCS is here.
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    8. hombre_fatal ◴[04 Feb 25 17:36 UTC] No.42935762[source]▶
    It’s worse than first class RSVP. Also where I live, it’s a social faux pas to mass invite people to a Whatsapp group as an event invitation for various reasons: it’s annoying, it publishes your invite list, and everyone’s first impression of your event would be a bunch of people leaving, lol. And you probably don’t want a group chat for most events unless it’s a group of friends who already knows each other. Nobody does it.
    9. nickthegreek ◴[04 Feb 25 19:39 UTC] No.42937498[source]▶
    Id prefer to cut Meta's social product use in my life to a minimum.
    10. dismalaf ◴[04 Feb 25 20:54 UTC] No.42938496{3}[source]▶
    Annoys you why? Signing up just requires a phone number... It's the least invasive of all the social network type things. Also RCS hasn't been widespread until recently, WhatsApp has been around for over a decade.
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    11. WorldMaker ◴[04 Feb 25 21:06 UTC] No.42938685[source]▶
    Some of the timing of this app seems coincided with something of a large exodus from Meta/Facebook's apps. WhatsApp never quite caught on in the US, but Facebook Events did. (They are both Meta/Facebook apps today. The feature sets are, somewhat similar here.) A lot of my friends have been looking for replacements for Facebook Events, so this is somewhat timely for those that like Apple apps as a replacement.
    12. rconti ◴[04 Feb 25 21:07 UTC] No.42938712[source]▶
    I don't use WhatsApp, though I probably have it installed on my phone.

    I'm in a birthday party planning group on Signal, which is another app I hadn't used in years. It's easy to forget I have messages there because it's not on my home screen, or the notification settings are different from my normal Messages app, or I just forget to look.

    Each time you use a "different" app for something that's not in your habit loop, your response time gets delayed and you're less likely to notice communications. An app needs to get fairly regular use to become as useful as a primary app, even if, from a technical standpoint, there's nothing wrong with them.

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    13. scarface_74 ◴[04 Feb 25 21:24 UTC] No.42938957[source]▶
    WhatsApp is not that popular in the US - especially for adults
    14. Zak ◴[04 Feb 25 22:50 UTC] No.42940245[source]▶
    I would expect most people to turn on notifications for anything that's reasonably described as a messaging app with similar settings to the ones they're already in the habit of using. Certainly disabling or silencing notifications would make it less useful.
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    15. realusername ◴[04 Feb 25 23:02 UTC] No.42940424[source]▶
    I suspect this new Apple Invite is going to be like iMessage, popular in the US and basically unused anywhere else.

    It seems like Apple has some difficulty to adapt to some international audience.

    16. jaza ◴[05 Feb 25 07:47 UTC] No.42945286[source]▶
    WhatsApp actually (quietly) launched their own simple event RSVP feature last year: https://faq.whatsapp.com/3313983622238973/
    17. frizlab ◴[05 Feb 25 08:16 UTC] No.42945554{4}[source]▶
    I do not want to use multiple apps for chat, first, and I especially do not want to use anything from Meta. I know it’s E2E encrypted, but they still get to know who I’m talking to and how often, and other metadata. I don’t want that.
    18. fsflover ◴[05 Feb 25 11:07 UTC] No.42946865[source]▶
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook
    19. rconti ◴[05 Feb 25 18:22 UTC] No.42952863{3}[source]▶
    Sure. I'm describing the real-world difference between using an app you're familiar with vs adding a new one to your repertoire. You're describing the ideal state, which is not one we all live in.

    IOW: When I started using signal again, I didn't set aside 5 minutes to analyze the differences in notification settings between my messaging apps and consider the implications of them. I just opened the app and typed a message.