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Apple Invites is not a very good party planning app

More like Apple Only-use-if-you-have-iCloud-vites. I’m throwing a housewarming and I also subscribe to iCloud+, and at the center of that Venn diagram is Apple Invites – or so I thought. On the surface, Invites is a very straightforward application. Pick an event name, date, and location, and you’re set. You can add additional things, like a brief description, a shared photo album (which I could see being useful), website links, and shared music playlists. In practice, I doubt people would use those if I set it up, so you always need to plan for the lowest common denominator, or as some would say, KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid). I did just that. I created my event, picked a date/time, gave my address, and added a little photo of my dining room for some flair. A great invite, I thought. And, Apple claims it’s a cross-platform application. Doesn’t matter if you have an iPhone or Android, just text over the invite using the handy-dandy “Invite Guests” feature (with per-person custom links ...