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651 points openchampagne | 10 comments | 04 Feb 25 16:21 UTC | HN request time: 1.649s | source | bottom
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jbentley1 ◴[04 Feb 25 16:43 UTC] No.42934803[source]▶
Unless they add some basic functionality to include Android users, this is the evilest use of their walled garden yet.
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1. dlachausse ◴[04 Feb 25 17:34 UTC] No.42935724[source]▶
What's preventing Google from competing and making their own better version of this? I don't see where there's anything that Apple is doing here that couldn't be easily replicated by them using their own ecosystem.
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2. tonyedgecombe ◴[04 Feb 25 18:31 UTC] No.42936613[source]▶
Google would stuff it full of adverts and tracking. For that reason it wouldn’t be better.
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3. dlachausse ◴[04 Feb 25 19:04 UTC] No.42937045[source]▶
That’s not Apple’s fault.
4. deelowe ◴[04 Feb 25 21:13 UTC] No.42938807[source]▶
I'm not a fan of either doing this. I'm watching all open protocols slowly disappear and it's killing innovation in the industry.
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5. vzaliva ◴[04 Feb 25 21:21 UTC] No.42938915[source]▶
then we will have 2 incompativle invite systems: form Apple and from Google.

The correct way to do this is to publish an open standard/API so 3rd parties can participate.

6. paradox460 ◴[04 Feb 25 21:22 UTC] No.42938926[source]▶
They did, a decade ago. Google Plus invites had all these features and more, and Google decided to kill them off, in the usual fashion
7. baggachipz ◴[04 Feb 25 21:35 UTC] No.42939140[source]▶
Google Invites: Invite your friends!

Google Invites is being discontinued.

Google Party: Invite your friends!

Google Party is being discontinued.

Google Gathering: Invite your friends!

Google Gathering is being discontinued.

8. thewebguyd ◴[04 Feb 25 22:00 UTC] No.42939533[source]▶
Don't forget rename it a few times, add a messenger into it, then kill it.
9. Spivak ◴[04 Feb 25 23:03 UTC] No.42940437[source]▶
The "open protocol" is Facebook Events right now. It's a pretty low bar.
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10. deelowe ◴[05 Feb 25 12:29 UTC] No.42947557{3}[source]▶
Just because Facebook created a walled garden that doesn't mean everyone else should too.