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651 points openchampagne | 3 comments | 04 Feb 25 16:21 UTC | HN request time: 1.654s | source
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cleverwebble ◴[04 Feb 25 16:48 UTC] No.42934914[source]▶
I'm in my mid-thirties and most of my friends have ditched Facebook. I didn't really realize this until when I used it to create an event for a house party... I was somewhat surprised that only 2 people out of 15 even saw it. I ended up resorting to good old text message and that worked, but it was tedious. Not sure how popular this will become, but having a social-media-less event invite/broadcasting system would be nice, and having one that most people with an iPhone have access to covers much of my friend base
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1. talldayo ◴[04 Feb 25 16:57 UTC] No.42935123[source]▶
> Not sure how popular this will become

Since Apple was too lazy to make it into a standard, it will probably go the way of App Clips. Niche idea, too few users to adopt it and no stakeholders with enough control to make it popular on other platforms.

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2. astrange ◴[04 Feb 25 22:18 UTC] No.42939781[source]▶
What would a standard for party invites be?

ics files and CalDAV are sort of an Apple standard.

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3. kstrauser ◴[04 Feb 25 23:40 UTC] No.42940966[source]▶
iCalendar is RFC 2245[0], written by Microsoft and Lotus. CalDAV is RFC 4791[1] written by Apple, Oracle, and CommerceNet. Those are examples of open standards that Apple happens to use, but aren't Apple standards in the sense that they're something they cooked up internally by themselves.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2445

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4791