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Apple Invites

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651 points openchampagne | 8 comments | 04 Feb 25 16:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.636s | source | bottom
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lordofgibbons ◴[04 Feb 25 22:24 UTC] No.42939855[source]▶
I really hope this fails.

Apple will use it's dominant position to create lock in like how they did with iMessage instead of cooperating with other platforms on a common standard.

Oder friends and family are surprised when they want to video call over Facetime and find it hard to believe other people's phones don't have Apple apps.

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1. pbronez ◴[04 Feb 25 22:35 UTC] No.42940020[source]▶
> Guests can view and respond to an invitation using the new iPhone app or on the web without needing an iCloud+ subscription or an Apple Account.
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2. talldayo ◴[04 Feb 25 22:37 UTC] No.42940059[source]▶
> Creation of invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription.

It's service slop after all.

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3. sithadmin ◴[04 Feb 25 22:37 UTC] No.42940066[source]▶
If it's anything like the web version of Facetime, it's not gonna be a great experience for non-iOS users.
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4. AyyEye ◴[04 Feb 25 22:53 UTC] No.42940298[source]▶
...there's a web facetime??
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5. koolba ◴[04 Feb 25 22:57 UTC] No.42940350{3}[source]▶
Apparently there is!

https://support.apple.com/en-us/109364

6. crazygringo ◴[04 Feb 25 23:11 UTC] No.42940543[source]▶
I have a hard time seeing how an invites app is going to be limited technologically. It's not complicated.

Video calling is orders of magnitude more complicated.

They're not really comparable.

7. bolognafairy ◴[04 Feb 25 23:32 UTC] No.42940854[source]▶
We can’t just start calling everything “slop” just because “AI slop” has become cool to say.
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8. talldayo ◴[05 Feb 25 02:24 UTC] No.42942819{3}[source]▶
Au contraire, this is an app that a fifth grader could write. Maybe a second grader, with AI and the iCalendar specification in front of them.

Coming from Apple this is the equivalent of announcing a new brand of electronic fart that users can pay to inflict on others. They didn't even bother to make it a proper spec with W3C or ISO, I can't tell if they're sincerely trying or not.