Apple Invites

My wife is in a position (board chair for a co-op) that results in her sending out a lot of invites to events. Evite has kinda been the go-to in her social/co-op group for ages, but man it suuuuuuucks these days. Ads everywhere, annoying patterns, and lacks a bunch of nice features that this seems to have.

Very happy to see this

Luma and Partiful are really good.

This Apple thing is going to turn into a "green text" social signalling thing all over again. If you have an Android, you won't be invited.

More scummy Apple social engineering bullshit. Kids that already hate on those having Android colored text bubbles are going to bully each other even more. And of course kids need the latest iPhone, too.

Apple is playing into this brilliantly and it's disgusting.

This green text thing only happens in the US. Nobody really uses iMessage elsewhere.

It shouldn't be allowed in the US. Lina Khan was going to put a stop to it, but tragically that didn't reach its culmination.

Why? Does the color affect functionality or are we going to pass laws based on feelings?

It does. If you try to send a photo in an inferior green bubble chat, you get an error. Face time calls don’t work.

The text is harder to read for me because it’s low contrast and can’t be configured.

It’s significantly less secure, and a government agent required I use blue bubble imessage to submit an important document for security, and wouldn’t accept it by sms or email since both were not secure enough

If you're in the U.S. and a "government agent" told you to use iMessage, you are 100% being scammed. No way they would accept anything less secure than a fax message or a document portal that looks like it was set up in the 90's.