I don't think you can do anything without paying anymore. At least with others you can listen to something free, even if there are ads.
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Apple Increasing Pricing of Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Apple One
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Posts are the best part. I do much better now about keeping my cool and not flipping on people anymore
The key is to not take anything too seriously here.Posts are the best part. I do much better now about keeping my cool and not flipping on people anymore
- inflation was accelerated especially in the past year
- many companies have raised prices across the board
- when a company introduces a lower cost product, it usually meant taking away features, reusing old tried and tested parts, or had better economies of scale, or a number of other reasons
- raising prices to infinity yields 0 buyers
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
Correct. But even grocery inflation can be pounded by resourceful consumers: A little garden? A little bartering with local farmers? Fish you catch yourself? Etc.
However, pinch the non-essentials and consumer costs seem to improve. Less money spent in non-essentials frees up some money for essentials.
And even essentials can’t “inflate” too far. Else, those who can… learn to grow/fish/hunt their own… and don’t necessarily bounce back if food prices starts coming back down again.
Can every consumer do that? Of course not. But it doesn’t take ALL of us… just enough of us.
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I get Apple Music free with my carrier plan and still pay for Spotify, Apples services are terrible
The amount of iCloud storage?
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
- Price hikes only succeed if people pay the higher prices.
- Many companies are raising prices because people are paying and blaming it on “inflation”
- Prices can come down as easily as they go up. Sellers want/need fresh cash MORE than consumers need most of what sellers sell.
- Raising prices to infinity DOES yield zero buyers. That's the point.
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No doubt. But they're a publicly traded company so their main purpose is to maximise dividends for their shareholders.
Just a matter of time until Spotify monthly and YouTube Premium go up as YTPremium family plan when up much.
because accelerated inflation is literally what's happening.
Mine says I will renew on Nov 10th at the $29.95 price. If I tap on "See All Plans" then I see the new pricing. But it would seem like I will at least get one more month at the original $29.95 pricing.
That'a nothing compared to the 400% increase in energy this year alone here in Belgium. Below is a quote from a song during one of my favourite times in my life, the 90's:
"Accept certain inalienable truths
Prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too, will get old
And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young
Prices were reasonable, politicians were noble
And children respected their elders"
I think I can handle the extra €10/per year I'll have to pay for Apple Music. I listen to it all day, every single day. Best money I have ever spent. Let the musicians who create all this get paid a bit more. Don't we all like a raise too?
"Accept certain inalienable truths
Prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too, will get old
And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young
Prices were reasonable, politicians were noble
And children respected their elders"
I think I can handle the extra €10/per year I'll have to pay for Apple Music. I listen to it all day, every single day. Best money I have ever spent. Let the musicians who create all this get paid a bit more. Don't we all like a raise too?
Spatial Audio sounds like you're listening to music on a broken headphone jack.
That's good at least, kinda grandfathered into it for a month maybe
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
No, because people are paying any prices asked. Eventually, that well of grumpy-gripe-a-rama-but-roll-over-willingness ends... either because the masses decide that prices have gotten too high and say "no" or because they actually get too high and the multitudes have no option other than "no."
Inflation is an excuse. The cause is people believing it is the catalyst and then paying higher and higher and higher prices. Should the multitudes STOP paying more and more and more, prices won't keep roaring higher from there due to inflation or any of the other excuses offered for prices needing to go up (and seemingly only up). Instead, magically, prices will start coming back down trying to find a price to motivate the masses to start buying again.
Seller wants/needs the new cash MORE than buyers need most of what they buy. Consumers as a group just seem to have forgotten that THEY actually have the great(er) power to say "NO." If a lot of them do, the price hike that led them to do that will no longer hike... and start working its way back down to motivate them to part with cash again.
See this very concept in a microcosm with any price that runs wild for a while. Eventually, there are no more buyers willing to pay so much. Then what happens? Prices come back down trying to entice buyers. If sellers just keep raising prices anyway, buyers saying NO at the lower price will not be moved to pay the higher price. As you confirmed yourself, as prices run towards infinity, there is eventually no more buyers.
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But the Apple website shows this so that FAQ can't be right. The new prices clearly show there.
Yea the only thing that somewhat annoys me here is the green bubble hate. FB, however...
This hot take would be accurate if you substitute “corporate profiteering” for “inflation”.
Yea, inflation is the cause, but the cause of inflation is people continuing to pay just because they have the money. No one seems to care if something is worth it anymore.
