Apple Announces 'Invites' App, Raises AppleCare+ Subscription Prices For iPhone 27
Apple has announced Apple Invites, a new iPhone app designed to help you manage your social life. Engadget reports: The idea behind Apple Invites is that you can create and share custom invitations for any event or occasion. You can use your own photos or backgrounds in the app as an image for the invite. Image Playground is built into Invites and you can use that to generate an images for the invitation instead. Other Apple Intelligence features such as Writing Tools are baked in as well, in case you need a hand to craft the right message for your invitation. The tech giant also said it was increasing AppleCare+ subscription prices for the iPhone, "raising the cost by 50 cents for all models in the United States," according to MacRumors. From the report: Standard AppleCare+ for the iPhone 16 models is now priced at $10.49 per month, for example, up from the prior $9.99 per month price. The 50 cent price increase applies to all available AppleCare+ plans for Apple's current iPhone lineup, and it includes both the standard plan and the Theft and Loss plan. The two-year AppleCare+ subscription prices have not changed, nor have the service fees and deductibles. The increased prices are only applicable when paying for AppleCare+ on a monthly basis. Apple has not raised the prices of AppleCare+ subscription plans for the iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch.
Could see apple invites (Score:2)
For online gaming discord is king, like if you want to get a match in on the Sega Saturn version of Virtua on there's a discord for that. But when it comes to anything in person Facebook dominates.
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Re:Could see apple invites (Score:4, Insightful)
With RCS they lost their clique of not associating with "the poors" (Android users) so this is a good way to reestablish cult membership.
And a useful asset for the intelligence agencies.
Re:Could see apple invites (Score:5, Insightful)
I think the author of TFS missed this part in the small print of Apple Invites:
Creation of invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription.
Apple locked it behind a paywall. That pretty much makes it DOA as a true competitor to Facebook for planning and managing friend/family events.
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> Trans people are less than 1/10 that. This means
> that it's easy to go your entire life without ever
> knowing one.
I'm not sure about the numbers. But I'm pretty sure that a significant part of that changes based on where you actually are. If you reside in one of the nasty places in the US where LGBT people in general, and trans people in particular, are hated and vilified, either the home-grown bible-belt kind of hate or as part of the republican's demonization and scapegoating campaigns; it's
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I think the author of TFS missed this part in the small print of Apple Invites:
Creation of invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription.
Apple locked it behind a paywall. That pretty much makes it DOA as a true competitor to Facebook for planning and managing friend/family events.
Like most Apple products outside the US, no one will use it. No-one uses facetime because things like WhatsApp and it's competitors do the same job and are cross platform... in fact tend to be better.
SMS is largely dead here in the UK, the only people who text me are the doctors surgery to remind me of an appointment and the supermarket who also sends me an email to tell me they'll be delivering between 19:30 and 20:30 (which means it might arrive sometime around 9 PM). Apple trying to play silly buggers
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> Apple locked it behind a paywall
I see this being like Facetime - nice, but niche.
Only creating requires iCloud (Score:2)
From the link
Invite others with just a link using any messaging platform.
Guests can RSVP in the iPhone app or on the web from any device.
Keep guests up to date on any last minute items by posting a message in the event for all to see.
So you can respond from Android, just not create your own. Similar to eVite, really.
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It sounds like the kind of CD-ROM shovelware you got in the mid 90s.
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Yah... My usage of Facebook is pretty much down to some groups (Many if not most of which have gone private since the zuck's MAGA conversion.) about hobbies and artists and shows I follow; and coordinating/RSVPing events with friends and local event promoters... most of whom are also down to those same last two use cases. Apple Invites would easily chop off between 1/5th to 1/3rd of all of our usage.
I have no idea of what the typical user of Facebook looks like or does there anymore. But I would expect t
US company (Score:1)
Drop your stupid tariffs, Donnie, and I might be interested.
Boycott America.
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Boycott America.
As an American, I approve this message.
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Extended warranty service plans are generally a rip-off to begin with [consumerreports.org], so the fact that Apple is jacking up the price (even though $6.00/yr isn't much) makes a bad deal even worse.
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AppleCare is a great idea for apple devices. I always pre-pay for 2 years. It's cheap and has saved my ass a few times. Broken screens, failed keyboard, a laptop that just decided to stop turning on, a battery that hit 70% near year 2.
Should it be required and all that normally covered? Sure, but we also live in the US and consumer protection is non-existent and on track to be even worse in my lifetime. I just bought a coffee machine that came with a free 1 year warranty if you lived in the US and 2 years i
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Every 3 years actually. Things happen though and if I'm buying a $1k item what's a tiny bit more to have the protection?
It's a verb (Score:2)
> Apple Invites
I suppose it does.
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The price of one year worth of apple care (Score:2)
The price of one year worth of apple care subscription gets me a good Android phone instead. And with that I don't even have to bother about my phone getting stolen or lost. I've been using my current Android phone for more than 6 years now. But then again, I am not into clicking selfies and a reasonable camera is good enough for me. And I am not into asstime and stuff.