Apple Increases Apple Music Subscription Price for Students in Several Countries

[MacRumors]

Apple has silently increased the price of its Apple Music subscription for college students in several countries, with the company emailing students informing them their subscription would be slightly increasing in price moving forward.

The price change is not widespread and, based on MacRumors' findings, will impact Apple Music student subscribers in but not limited to Australia, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Indonesia, Israel, and Kenya.

"Thank you for subscribing to Apple Music. We wanted to let you know about an upcoming change to this subscription," reads an email from Apple to Apple Music student subscribers. "Apple is raising the price of this subscription from USD 1.49 per month to USD 1.99 per month," an email from Apple read to a customer in South Africa.

Apple offers students a discounted price of Apple Music compared to the company's regular individual plan. In the United States, Apple Music is offered for $4.99 per month for college students, compared to the standard $9.99 per month offer. Customers can also get Apple Music bundled with Apple One, which offers several Apple services starting at $14.95 per month.

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[egrimo]

They also increased it recently in Turkey from 7.99₺ to 9.99₺

 

[Aluminum213]

We must do all we can as students to help Apple stay afloat financially during these tough times

#studentswithapple

 

[Motawa]

dont be mad at them. They are a small company and need the moneys

 

[IsaacM]

God forbid their profits go down 0,000000000000000041%

It's better to make the broke student pay for it

 

[centauratlas]

Inflation is global. Someone, somewhere has to pay. In this case the people using it are splitting the costs with apple employees and shareholders. It is just like taxes, a person somewhere is paying, it is just a question of which person, except inflation is highly regressive.

#consequences

 

[sofila]

A slight 33% increase, obviously tied to actual inflation rates

 

[IsaacM]

Inflation is global. Someone, somewhere has to pay. In this case the people using it are splitting the costs with apple employees and shareholders. It is just like taxes, a person somewhere is paying, it is just a question of which person, except inflation is highly regressive.

#consequences

Yeah, except corporations get huge billion dollar bailouts all the time...

 

[vyspirit]

In Vietnam, the price also increased from 29,000 VND ($1.25) to 35,000 VND ($1.51), but I did not receive any email notification about this from Apple.

 

[obamtl]

While it's easy to bash Apple for hiking prices, the real test for me is whether this also translates into increased royalties for the actual artists whose music we listen to.

 

[Shanghaichica]

They were paying peanuts for it anyway.

 

[mdnz]

They were paying peanuts for it anyway.

Kinda puts it in a different perspective if peanuts is all that you have and the peanuts you're using to pay stuff with is worth less and less.

 

[MacLC]

Yeah, except corporations get huge billion dollar bailouts all the time...

Using "corporations" as a pejorative is so 2016.
If it's that easy, start your own.

The same politicians that start the anti-corporation rhetoric are the ones bailing out the corporations. The people believing and repeating the rhetoric are the ones getting fooled. The rhetoric is just there as a smokescreen.

While it's easy to bash Apple for hiking prices, the real test for me is whether this also translates into increased royalties for the actual artists whose music we listen to.

That's the $64,000 question. By the way that TV show aired when California beach houses sold for $12k that now go for over a million. If $64k could buy 5 beach houses that would now be worth $10million, then you've just asked the $10 million question.

Most likely, Apple's just pocketing the majority of the change.

 

[genovelle]

While it's easy to bash Apple for hiking prices, the real test for me is whether this also translates into increased royalties for the actual artists whose music we listen to.

The increase is not an increase at all. If is a decrease in a massive discount on an already massive discount. 9.99-> 4.99 regular student discount price -> 1.49 Student discount in these countries. Moving to 1.99 is still really low being a 60% discount off the student price which is already a 50% discount off the regular price.

 

[Abazigal]

While it's easy to bash Apple for hiking prices, the real test for me is whether this also translates into increased royalties for the actual artists whose music we listen to.

At that price, Apple is likely already subsidising said royalties.

 

[Wildkraut]

Just in time with the newly released automatic price increase subscription renewal/robbery.
How smart, and what a coincidence!

 

[neuropsychguy]

A slight 33% increase, obviously tied to actual inflation rates

Inflation, currency exchange rates, license costs, royalties, hosting costs, taxes, etc.

 

[neuropsychguy]

God forbid their profits go down 0,000000000000000041%

It's better to make the broke student pay for it

This is a service students are forced to pay for? Couldn’t a student use Spotify instead or not subscribe to a music streaming service?

I love music and typically spend many hours each day listening to music but if I couldn’t afford a streaming service, there’s no way I’d subscribe to one.

 

[RickDEGH]

God forbid their profits go down 0,000000000000000041%

It's better to make the broke student pay for it

Broke students should listen to FM radio - doesn’t cost a thing.

 

[krspkbl]

50c increase. oh no

won't be long until Apple hikes the price for everyone. If it's only a 50c increase we will be lucky.

 

[211]

Mentioned so far is inflation and also paying artists more. This brings up a question I’ve had for a while:

Say I have a monthly subscription to  Music of $10 but I didn’t listen to any music that month. Where does the $10 go? If I do use  Music that month, how much do I need to use for that $10 to be worth it? How is that money divided up? Even if I don’t use it?

 

[JosephAW]

Is that all?

 

[mihirdelirious]

Apple giveth, Tim taketh

 

[Oscar_440]

Too easy to avoid that price rise… stop paying for it. It’s a huge company with a HUGE benefits, and they always want more and more. but hey, we’re environmentally committed and bla bla bla…
Unfortunately, they will increase iPhone 14 prices as well.

 

[4743913]

when I was a student, we just downloaded the music we wanted to listen to.

cars were harder though.