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> Guests can view and respond to an invitation using the new iPhone app or on the web without needing an iCloud+ subscription or an Apple Account.

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If it's anything like the web version of Facetime, it's not gonna be a great experience for non-iOS users.

I have a hard time seeing how an invites app is going to be limited technologically. It's not complicated.

Video calling is orders of magnitude more complicated.

They're not really comparable.

...there's a web facetime??

Apparently there is!

https://support.apple.com/en-us/109364

> Creation of invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription.

It's service slop after all.

We can’t just start calling everything “slop” just because “AI slop” has become cool to say.

Au contraire, this is an app that a fifth grader could write. Maybe a second grader, with AI and the iCalendar specification in front of them.

Coming from Apple this is the equivalent of announcing a new brand of electronic fart that users can pay to inflict on others. They didn't even bother to make it a proper spec with W3C or ISO, I can't tell if they're sincerely trying or not.

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