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Apple Increasing Pricing of Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Apple One
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You sure about that? From where I'm sitting some people can't live without either.
Yes, I did. See previous post, ie some people make as if it's the same thing.
This part is the best explanation for this, and one I can easily get on board with.
We used to have no electricity. It would be very inconvenent, and even worse where there are extreme temps, but I think you could live without it. But you definitely need to eat and drink over Apple stuff
Apple actually treats the Artists better paying them double the money that spotify does
Apple 1 stream is equal to 1 penny.
Spotify 1 stream is equal to 0.0032 penny.
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There wasn’t any other streaming service with a price this low because there wasn’t any other streaming service with this almost null amount of content. Keep in mind ATV started from zero. While HBO offers us hundreds if not thousands of titles old and new for 6.99 apple was offering like 10 titles which now are like 30 for 6.99
They are beyond their minds if they actually think we will pay 6.99 and 10.99 and I don’t know how much more for this services when the competition offer us more for less.
How is "increased licensing cost and expanding content" not valid reasons?
Another (more likely) possibility is that the price of TV+ had always been kept artificially low in order to attract and retain reviews. Perhaps it’s around how that TV+ has seen reasonable success and Apple is confident enough that people will stick around despite the price hikes.
In short, we had always been paying a discounted rate, and what we are seeing how is what the real price of TV+ should have been all along.
These numbers are only accurate in Apple PR spin. That isn't how streaming royalties are actually calculated in the real world.
And let’s not forget they pretty much gave ATV+ away for free for around almost 2 years.
I didn’t think it’s a discounted rate when the competition offers you a thousand more titles for 6.99
69.00 prepay works out to 5.75 a month?
.76 a month increase? A coffee at a well known vender costs that much. Works fine for us
.76 a month increase? A coffee at a well known vender costs that much. Works fine for us
Well technically it was also $49.95 annual prepay, so it’s now really more like $1.66 more a month. (Or 1.59 with your math)
Avoiding the politics of this as much as I can, but the EU has consistently raised Apple's costs of doing business on the continent for years now. How long did you guys think Apple would just absorb the costs instead of passing the increase on to the consumer?
Sure, Apple can charge what they want, and markets will have some natural fluctuation, but Apple is first and foremost a business, not a charity. If a people elect representatives that enact policies that increase the cost of goods and living, then there's only one surefire way of stopping or reversing that.
I'm as unhappy as anyone else with these price increases, but I also realize that my government has been printing money out of thin air in earnest the last few years, making every dollar I had in the bank worth a little less through dilution.
This is so true. Though they are a business and can make business decisions for profit, the old model of Apple was to treat us as valuable customers. The additional software products were subsidised by the high prices of the hardware.
well lets be honest.. that's all it's worth...
macOS hasn’t been particularly great since it was free. Last few releases have been awful.
I'll be switching to Spotify, though it looks like they'll be increasing prices next year anyways:
What I'm really curious about is seeing how Apple Music competes over the next year. There have been hints that Apple has big updates in store for AM (the spokesperson's language in this announcement, the Classical Music app, Super Bowl partnership, Tim Cook's office responding to a customer's lengthy suggestions for Apple Music), but yet, there have been basically no updates to Apple Music in the year and a half since Dolby Atmos + Lossless.
Meanwhile, Spotify still doesn't have their lossless plan, it's going to be $20/mo instead of $10/mo or $11/mo, and there are rumors they're going to restrict even more features to that plan. If Apple is able to actually introduce some major improvements to Music while keeping everything all-inclusive at $11/mo while Spotify raises their base price to $11/mo but gatekeeps features to $20/mo, Apple Music could start looking like a real bargain.
Right now, here are the advantages I see for each:
Apple Music
What I'm really curious about is seeing how Apple Music competes over the next year. There have been hints that Apple has big updates in store for AM (the spokesperson's language in this announcement, the Classical Music app, Super Bowl partnership, Tim Cook's office responding to a customer's lengthy suggestions for Apple Music), but yet, there have been basically no updates to Apple Music in the year and a half since Dolby Atmos + Lossless.
Meanwhile, Spotify still doesn't have their lossless plan, it's going to be $20/mo instead of $10/mo or $11/mo, and there are rumors they're going to restrict even more features to that plan. If Apple is able to actually introduce some major improvements to Music while keeping everything all-inclusive at $11/mo while Spotify raises their base price to $11/mo but gatekeeps features to $20/mo, Apple Music could start looking like a real bargain.
Right now, here are the advantages I see for each:
Apple Music
- Music quality
- Lossless
- Dolby Atmos
- Spatial Audio
- More efficient standard quality audio codec, especially for Apple devices
- Better library management and customization
- Pays artists better
- Live radio stations
- Doesn't force podcasts or audiobooks on you
- Personal station for music picked for you + new music recommendations
- Privacy
- Cheaper
- Faster, less buggy, better working app, especially across a wide variety of devices/platforms
- Better queuing system
- Better social features, more users, better user-generated playlists
- Crossfade
- Better music recommendations
- Spotify Connect - have one device continue playing music while you control the music from another device
- Native/seamless last.fm integration
- More innovative features - seems to get more updates and a lot of unique updates way more often than AM
The content is so minimal, it would have been criminal to charge for it. Once my 2 years of free access was up, I cancelled it. I probably watched 6 or 7 things on it in that time and every time I browsed it I barely found anything worth watching. It’s no Netflix by any stretch.