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Google would stuff it full of adverts and tracking. For that reason it wouldn’t be better.

That’s not Apple’s fault.

Don't forget rename it a few times, add a messenger into it, then kill it.

Google Invites: Invite your friends!

Google Invites is being discontinued.

Google Party: Invite your friends!

Google Party is being discontinued.

Google Gathering: Invite your friends!

Google Gathering is being discontinued.

They did, a decade ago. Google Plus invites had all these features and more, and Google decided to kill them off, in the usual fashion

I'm not a fan of either doing this. I'm watching all open protocols slowly disappear and it's killing innovation in the industry.

The "open protocol" is Facebook Events right now. It's a pretty low bar.

Just because Facebook created a walled garden that doesn't mean everyone else should too.

then we will have 2 incompativle invite systems: form Apple and from Google.

The correct way to do this is to publish an open standard/API so 3rd parties can participate.