Apple Announces 'Invites' App, Raises AppleCare+ Subscription Prices For iPhone

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

[rsilvergun]

Eating Facebook alive. A huge part of what makes Facebook Facebook is groups people used to find social gatherings. A buddy of mine fishes and that's how he finds his fishing buddies. And of course the nerd community is all over Facebook. If you want to play an obscure tabletop RPG you go to Facebook.

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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[bill_mcgonigle]

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

[Powercntrl]

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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[Anonymous Coward]

Drop your stupid tariffs, Donnie, and I might be interested.

Boycott America.

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[Powercntrl]

Boycott America.

As an American, I approve this message.

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[Powercntrl]

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.

It's a verb

[GrahamJ]

> Apple Invites

I suppose it does.