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Apple Increasing Pricing of Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Apple One
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HobeSoundDarryl
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Consumers will wake up eventually... either by making better decisions like showing that they believe in the value of their hard-earned money enough to NOT just pay ANY price (hikes)... or by eventually getting priced out so they have no choice but to turn down things they wish they could buy.
We either re-learn to choose the "NO" option voluntarily or it will be forced upon us by "inflation" or "war related costs" or "supply chain disruptions" or "currency exchange rates" or <enter other popular excuses for why prices need to go up and only up>. Once we re-learn that key piece of our end of the capitalism proposition, maybe we'll be smart enough not to forget it again... leading to a period of re-balancing value of our money vs. pricing of stuff for sale.
To paraphrase an oldie:
- Sell a man a fish, and he gets fed as long as he can pay your price for fish.
- Teach a man to fish (or force him to learn out of necessity) and he may never pay for fish again.
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People actually pay for Apple TV plus?
I just hope Google forgot that I'm still paying the old grandfathered price for YouTube Premium... $7.99. I will gladly pay this price forever if they never raise it on me.
Voting with my wallet. Canceling everything.
The truth hurts. But that's me. Blunt and to the point.
iCloud storage is all I get. I hate Apple Music. Worst layout of any streaming app. Apple TV has basically nothing I care to watch, and I don't play games on my phone.
Yet to pay for any of this crap, it seems like groupon, best buy and target give away codes for free months on a weekly basis.
Shocking, I know?! People that pay for a service they like and love, who would have thought?!?!?!?!?!?!
Get off your high-horse, you look silly up there.
Apparently they told The Verge that these accounts will be moved up to the current pricing from April
Music is one thing, millions of songs spanning some 70 odd years, but I'm still trying to figure out what Apple TV might be worth.
Hey man, I'm enjoying your TED talk in this thread and you do make a lot of good points. But what about someone like me who is nowhere near a farm to barter with a farmer or water to fish in? It'd cost more to travel to those locations than to just buy them.
I just recently reactivated Netflix for this reason. Watch for awhile then reactivate. The more these prices go up, the easier it is to do.It’s not all that surprising but obviously not welcome news. It does honestly put me off re-subbing to AppleTV+, which I have been considering lately. The higher the price, the more likely I (and I suspect others) will just dip in for a month or two and catch up / binge rather than let it run.
It’s funny because it’s true… - I’m laughing in sympathy, not mockery.
So many things wrong with the streaming industry, many things right but too many things that to me are fixable, could be wrong of course.
First, could Apple just buy Pandora, OK too late for that as SiriusXM already purchased them, but would it be so much to ask for Apple to have the best individual artist radio stations? How about a jukebox like mix feature for all of your favorite stations, do the programmers at Apple Music understand how regular people listen to music? Do they not understand that the key to music streaming is personalization, whichever service creates the ultimate ability to create personal radio stations will probably win the game.
As far as the bookmarking goes, does Spotify even do this correctly, for example, if there is a Company X podcast that covers tv shows and you want to only favorite or subscribe to the Z show on that Company X podcast, I don't see a way on Spotify you can achieve this, the problem seems to be that all of these companies are trying to be too many things to too many people, it should be easy to dumb down the interfaces and shut off the surrounding noise.
Apple buys a classical music streaming company, why, just give everyone the ability to segment Apple Music into their music of choice, you only want classical, boom, click a button and that is all the interface will offer and we will do it better than anyone because we have the most money and the most skilled programmers.
If you want classical and rap, done, or different tabs representing different music profiles, the funniest thing in the price increase press release was Apple writing that they had the most innovative streaming service in the world, can Apple please show us these innovations.
supply shortage = people buy at any price = inflation. literally proving my point.
It’s really strange the hate that Apple TV+ gets. People that haven’t subscribed for even a month and enjoyed the shows will just say ‘OMG $5/month?!’ but subscribe to Netflix, Hulu and Disney+ for 10 shows a year and movies they’ve already seen.Ok so Apple TV+ doesn’t appeal to you but it does to many others.
And Spotify is still $9.99….for now.
That said I don’t like the price increase and Apple TV+ has some duds, but it’s still a great value to my 5 person family spread across 3 households via Apple One. We’ve found ways to utilize all of the services between us.
AppleTV+ has a few great shows but I can go months without any of them having new episodes. I like Mythic Quest, Ted Lasso and The Morning Show and it feels like an eternity since any of them had a new episode. They need more good shows on there. It just doesn't have enough currently for 7 bucks a month.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
Not every consumer has to pinch everything to get inflation under control. So you pay up for an essential like food because you have no choice but to pay whatever they ask... while some like me decides we CAN fish... or we CAN hunt... or we have the space to raise chickens... or plant crops... etc. If there's enough of us, we deal with food inflation for you. In turn, you perhaps help us by cutting out paying any price for non-essentials within your typical purchasing mix.
The magic is in group "no" as business cannot readily get away with charging much more in one zone where someone like you has little choice vs. those like me who may have many choices for the same thing. Else, you can hop online and order our "bargains" from here and we order your "bargains" from there.
Take something near and dear to all of us here: tech. Maybe you are one who has historically upgraded your phone every 2 years? What if you and those like you opted to stretch the existing phone one more year? Two? Maybe you eat at restaurants every day for lunch and you notice their pricing is getting too high? What if you pack a lunch a few of those days? Maybe you take 2 big vacations every year? What if you make that one vacation if pricing is hiked too high for your kinds of vacations and maybe make that second vacation a different type that can fill the same time with interesting todos minus the great expense (national park vacations for example)? Etc.
As is right now, the excuse of "inflation" seems to be making EVERYTHING more expensive. But as this "Ted" offers, those hikes only stick if we pay up for them. There are purchases in almost anyone's life that are NOT essentials. Should those things get too expensive, either you say "No" to even higher prices or they simply get too high for you (and force that "No" from you). For those people already pinching all they can, they are already doing their consumer job best they can.
Price hikes stop when many buyers are not willing to just pay more.
Modern consumers have been fooled into believing inflation is something for someone else- typically the FED- to deal with. However, the FED is limited in what it can do or inflation would already be under control. Why do prices keep running? Because most of us keep rolling over and paying. When many of us stop, price hikes will stop... and then start falling to try to move us to start trading cash for stuff again.
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It’s a bit ironic, just when I had gotten used to the 4.99 price tag… I am coming off a free trial sub and have been watching quite a bit of Apple TV recently and was literally about to subscribe… of course now I am holding off until the next Ted Lasso is done and use the rest of that month to catch up with a few other shows…
They have some really great shows on there: Severance, Ted Lasso, The Morning Show, Acapulco, Invasion, Trying, etc.