Apple Invites

I think some demographic info can be useful in judging the potential uptake.

Apple iPhone ownership amongst USA teens:

2024: 87%

2019: 83%

2014: 67%

https://www.iclarified.com/95177/87-of-us-teens-own-iphones-...

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Smartphone marketshare for iPhone in various countries:

65%: Norway

59%: Sweden/Japan/Canada/USA

49%: UK

30-39%: Germany/Portugal/Italy

other countries are lower from my random sampling of developed countries (South Korea is dominated by Samsung).

Source: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/norway

Change last part of url to get info for another country

> Creation of invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription.

I really wonder what the uptake is on iCloud+ subscriptions.

I avoided subscribing for years out of principle, just backed up my photos locally (which they make as painful as possible — afaik it’s not possible to just plug your phone into a Linux machine and grab all the new photos).

I finally caved a few months ago when I got tired of fighting with the awful backup storage UI that makes it difficult to determine why the backup is failing even though it’s smaller than 5GB.

Apple has every incentive to make that UI as bad as possible while still being functional.