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You've broken both the Show HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) and the overall site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) with this post.

Can you please take more care about this, especially in Show HN threads, where people are sharing their work and discussion is particularly vulnerable? It shouldn't be hard to make a comment about barriers to adoption that doesn't come across as a putdown.

(a) iPhones don’t cost $2,000

(b) Presumably this is meant for iMessage group chats where everyone is already, for better or worse, in Apple’s walled garden. Nobody is going to buy an iPhone just so they can use a Doodle clone with a nicer UI.

Yeah, Doodle was the site I was thinking of. In the few times I have used it, it was absolutely invaluable for finding the intersection of available times.

https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/groups

Uh huh. You don’t buy an iphone to use this app. You use this app on an iphone you already have. I think his goal was to be able to organise meetings with his iPhone friends , not encourage mass iPhone adoption ownership.