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by talldayo 500 days ago
> Not sure how popular this will become

Since Apple was too lazy to make it into a standard, it will probably go the way of App Clips. Niche idea, too few users to adopt it and no stakeholders with enough control to make it popular on other platforms.
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astrange 500 days ago
What would a standard for party invites be?

ics files and CalDAV are sort of an Apple standard.

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kstrauser 500 days ago
iCalendar is RFC 2245[0], written by Microsoft and Lotus. CalDAV is RFC 4791[1] written by Apple, Oracle, and CommerceNet. Those are examples of open standards that Apple happens to use, but aren't Apple standards in the sense that they're something they cooked up internally by themselves.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2445

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4791

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