Since Arcade, News+ and Fitness+ stayed the same price, can we assume those services are lagging behind the others?
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Apple Increasing Pricing of Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Apple One
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Using any of them first hand answers the question..
Fitness+ is "ok"...Arcade and News+ are a joke
Agreed, I see the appeal of going with Apple One (or whatever it's called) since it drives pricing down to make subpar services worth it, but I really have no desire to be all-in with Apple to that extent. There's nothing so appealing to the brand that I feel a need to match Apple Services to my Apple Hardware. I'll pick and choose, thanks.
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Costco is still showing $44.00 for annual Apple TV+. I might use that instead of renewing thru iTunes next week.
If you want that, better grab it fast before they raise it.
Perhaps, or maybe (probably) they're just not as popular as Music and TV+, and Apple doesn't want to push it.
Oddly, I find Fitness+ the most interesting and worthy Apple service. It's relatively unique in its structure, the integration with the Apple Watch is clever, it's accessible, it's high quality. It represents something fairly unique at a decent price.
Every other Apple service coasts on "because Apple" as its justification.
I was JUSSSST ABOUT to drop my Spotify's Family Plan ($15.99/mo) - and, cancel my iCloud Storage ($2.99/mo) - and switch to AppleOne family for $19.95/mo.
That won't be necessary now. Also, rather sad Apple hasn't increased storage on the plans in many, many years as they once did.
going from a 200GB tier to 2TB is too expensive. They should bump the lower tier to be 100GB per member up to 500GB and offer a 1TB tier.
(Wish there was a better, more integrated alternative. Some come close but don't seem to justify the hoops.)
That won't be necessary now. Also, rather sad Apple hasn't increased storage on the plans in many, many years as they once did.
going from a 200GB tier to 2TB is too expensive. They should bump the lower tier to be 100GB per member up to 500GB and offer a 1TB tier.
(Wish there was a better, more integrated alternative. Some come close but don't seem to justify the hoops.)
Already raising/collecting money to pay/sponsor F1 for waving the chequered flag at the next year's US Grand Prix with that miserable less enthusiastic looking face.
Lame. I don’t even use Apple TV+ and arcade. Might just look into going for just the storage plan and music separately.
inflation is only one reason.
i mean all of you have been rooting for unions which is great but Apple simply passes the cost of unions onto the customers so this shouldn't be surprising
then there's additional costs of updating windows apps because so many have complained about iCloud and iTunes being outdated/sucky on windows (we're getting Apple Music/TV/new iCloud integration).
new features like iCloud library sharing.
third party apps now have access to more cloud services that are provided to the user for free (street view maps, weather API, etc...).
list goes on.
Good tip, just grabbed it there is this just a CODE that works to make a one year sub? Seems like a decent deal at this point.
I like some of the kids like snoopy and fraggle rock, but could they ever put out adult stuff that isn't MA+++++++++++
I might have to cancel my subscriptions and move to other services.
- Apple Music is not good at all, the app is really bad
- Apple TV is garbage
- Cloud Storage, do I really need this when I have 1TB from Microsoft Office already.
- Apple Arcade, again total garbage.
The price increase of Apple could be a good moment to re-evaluate all this Apple stuff and if it’s needed or not. Most likely not. So thanks Apple.
- Apple Music is not good at all, the app is really bad
- Apple TV is garbage
- Cloud Storage, do I really need this when I have 1TB from Microsoft Office already.
- Apple Arcade, again total garbage.
The price increase of Apple could be a good moment to re-evaluate all this Apple stuff and if it’s needed or not. Most likely not. So thanks Apple.
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Then given the ambiguity of that excuse, all companies should raise prices towards infinity… and get away with it by simply saying “inflation.”
The “truth” is that cash is king and if consumer cash would pinch, inflation would cease. Why? Because at the end of the day, the sellers want the cash more than the buyers should want the not-absolutely-essential stuff we buy with it.
There’s this idea that the FED is tasked with “getting inflation under control”. All the FED can do is pinch credit with higher rates. In doing so, they will put some pinch on consumer spending (on credit) and that can eventually slow rampant price hikes.
However consumers could get it done faster by using their own, one-word, power play: “NO”
We seem to have simply forgotten that power in the last decade or two and now easily believe that a single word justifies all price hikes… as the companies hiking them report “another record quarter” etc over and over again. We consumers will wake up eventually… or greed will eventually force those “No”s.
Yes regular gas is the only thing that came down for a bit. Diesel sits at $6 forever, which is the convenient excuse for nothing else to drop. Groceries are getting even more ridiculous. Giant is absoutely mental to think $6-7 a twelve pack is close to a sale. And you had to get multiples for the price. What is it without that????????
I agree with the wants, but you can only pinch so much on needs like groceries
Most of the time i instantly cancel after i sub, unless it's some trial you instantly lose. And i set reminders for those