APPS I DON’T NEED

Apple’s Invites Feature Is, Umm, Okay?

I guess, maybe, I dunno?

Not my birthday! Stay away! Photo of and by grumpy author

My 77th birthday will be arriving soonish. No, I’m not having a party, but if I lost my mind and did do that, I suppose Apple’s Invites feature might be a way to create and send invitations. So, I used Apple’s new app to craft a “Swim out 500 yards in Lake Michigan” event for my dear friends who would like to celebrate with me.

Well, I’ll celebrate vicariously. I won’t be there myself. It’s too cold and too far away. But I will be thinking of you!

Creating a basic invitation was easy. The finished product was squirreled away in iCloud, which made me wonder if my Android friends would be able to access it. Then I remembered that I don’t have any Android using friends. Not any who I’d invite, anyway.

But other less discerning Apple users might not yet have ghosted all of their non-Apple friends, so I had to find out. Fortunately, there is a nice review at The Verge that answers my question:

Apple Invites is at its best for people already in Apple's world