Apple Invites app launches, AltStore drama, Apple AR hardware roadmap flounders
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin and Chance review the newly-launched Apple Invites app and despite how well made the app is, debate whether anyone will actually use it. Also, AltStore makes headlines about hosting the first ‘Apple approved’ NSFW app, Apple reportedly cancels another AR hardware initiative and TikTok spreads fake news about the iOS 18.3 support for T-Mobile Starlink service.
And in Happy Hour Plus, Benjamin and Chance bemoan the lack of advancement in CarPlay in recent years, and suggest a few easy wins Apple could add to the platform. Subscribe at 9to5mac.com/join.
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Chance Miller
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Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- Here are five Apple Invites features you might have missed
- Apple confirms 'Invites' app and iCloud+ feature, here's how it works [Video]
- Here's how Apple Invites work on Android [Gallery]
- Apple responds after being forced to approve porn app on EU iPhones due to DMA [U]
- Apple gives up on device-connected smart glasses project, here's how it would have worked
- No, Apple didn't just 'install' Elon Musk's Starlink on everyone's iPhone
- M5 chip enters mass production, ready for MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, Vision Pro
- The real problem with next-generation CarPlay
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Mayo, did you get the invite I sent you this morning? |
| 0:02.6 | The invite to Happy Hour. |
| 0:05.3 | I did. |
| 0:06.2 | Happy Hour live at Buckingham Palace at the end of this month. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm very much looking forward to it. |
| 0:10.9 | I don't know if you are. |
| 0:12.2 | But Buckingham Palace is quite the esteemed venue for a live podcast recording, I think. |
| 0:17.9 | We will bring you the latest Apple News and Insights amid the grander of this |
| 0:21.0 | royal setting, according to your description. We're referring to the launch of the Apple Invites |
| 0:27.1 | app, which is something we talked about a few couple months ago at this point. Our colleague |
| 0:31.1 | Felipe was first to report on the existence of this app. Apple describes it as a new app that |
| 0:36.4 | brings people together for |
| 0:37.5 | life's special moments. It's a dedicated app for iPhone where you can go in and create what's a |
| 0:43.1 | pretty sleek looking invite to any sort of event in your life. You can set a date, a time, |
| 0:49.1 | a description. There are tie-ins to Apple Music, so you can share a playlist for the event. |
| 0:54.9 | There are tie-ins to the Photos app to automatically create a shared album for the event |
| 0:59.0 | where anybody can drop in pictures. |
| 1:01.6 | What else do we have? |
| 1:02.8 | There's, oh, there's quote-unquote, deep Apple intelligence integration. |
| 1:07.2 | So you can use image playground to generate a background for the event artwork. And you can use writing playground to generate a background for the event artwork, |
| 1:12.3 | and you can use writing tools to generate a description for the event. |
| 1:16.3 | It's altogether, I think it's actually a pretty sleek package of an app that ties together |
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