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Other Are you happy about Apple’s recent pricing hikes?
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Don't even mind in between if they are like HBO Max. An occassional 30s or less ad. Never saw an annoying product or political one yet either
I suppose I will have to learn to put up with it when the time comes. I really enjoy not having to watch adverts so Netflix and Disney+ are great right now. I am expecting that to change by next year as streaming services seek alternative revenue streams.
I'm pretty sure that VZW will probably move us to D+ Ads Plan once it releases :/
The "need" component becomes significantly more important as, for example, the Apple Watch starts monitoring critical health information that is shared with your physicians and their automatic systems don't accept Android or other health data.
Just to be clear, you’re suggesting that Apple is going to have a monopoly on health monitoring? No, that will not happen. There are way too many legal implications.
And aside from the fact that that argument wouldn’t even apply to non-health monitoring devices, which most of Apple’s products do not—ultimately, the masses of people who feel entitled to Apple’s devices at the price they want have been making their feelings known since long before Apple started health monitoring, and would absolutely continue to do so whether or not health monitoring existed.
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What you said was, you don’t understand people who don’t like to be “tracked”, and I’m asking what’s not to understand? People don’t want to be tracked, what aren’t you understanding about it?
Don't know why you think I suggested that since I specifically mentioned Android. What I said is that certain medical institutions may only be optimized for receiving health data from Apple rather than Android or other. That's not a monopoly situation, it is a decision by the medical IT guys as to which ecosystem best meets their needs. Maybe Android doesn't support data transfers in the data type or format they need or doesn't have that health data available. Could be the other way around as well.
Apple One shows to be $16.95/month for an individual - how are you getting it for $3/month?
People don’t like data being collected on them due to privacy concerns.
I don’t use ad blockers or anything so I seem to get targeted adverts. Companies such as Meta and Twitter operate and profit on selling user data.
I believe he is saying he is paying $3 per month more for Apple One and that the increase is still acceptable for him.
Pedantic point - if you valued the entertainment at double the cost ($2 instead of $1) you halve the time your money would pay for, not double it. IOW if $1 month entertainment bought you 7 months, valuing it at $2 while spending the same amount only gets you 3 1/2 months, not 14 months.
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Saying you don’t care about being tracked/privacy, is like saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say
I don’t understand this point. Yes, you mentioned Android—that it’s not accepted—that’s precisely why I thought you were suggesting Apple’s monopoly.
You didn”t say “certain medical institutions”. It would have been much clearer if you had used the word “certain”, because your post sounded like it was talking about the general person’s medical institution, ie. monopoly. Perhaps you were intending “for example” to mean “a certain person that uses a certain medical institution”, but that wasn’t at all clear. From the context of the conversation, “for example” was much more easily read as an example of why people in general will need an Apple Watch.
But regardless, unless maybe in extremely niche scenarios, I don’t believe any medical institution will only give their customers one brand option of watch/phone (an Apple Watch requires an iPhone), because of the financial consequences of excluding ~half the demographic—nor do I believe they will be allowed to do so because of legal reasons.
And again regardless, even if this health-related feature somehow established a need for an Apple Watch for some specific people, that wouldn't extend the need to all people (a medical organization could subsidize for their customers), nor would it extend to all of Apple’s other products, as I’m sure the people accusing Apple of price gouging (in general) would hope.
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I wish they would do a better job tracking me. Maybe I wouldn't get ads like this.
As if I would pay $4M to live anywhere within 500 miles of Boston.
Oh I care about privacy. I just don't view everything I do in life as being "private".
I am thrilled for the price hikes. I absolutely love paying more and makes me feel warm inside. CEO gotta eat to ya know!
Sure I love paying 40% more for groceries and gas. Wtf is this question lol. So dumb.
Indeed lol, I doubt many people are happy their iPhone is £150 more expensive than the comparable model last year. I know some here have justified it by saying it’s still worth the cost, but it’ll only go up further if Apple think the market will accept it.