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Apple Increases Apple Music Subscription Price for Students in Several Countries

boss.king said:
Except that this is going up by much more than would be accounted for by inflation.
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There are always currency valuation changes.

Take a look at 1 year time chart of Australia, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, South Africa, Indonesia, Israel, Kenya currencies compared to USD.

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I only had to look at South Africa and India to see the trend for the last year.
 
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As someone who graduated in 2019 and is still enjoying that sweet student subscription.
This is ********!
 
I'm trying to get away from Apple Music and get all my stuff over to Plex. Freedom to have my own music back. Only 200 playlists to go lol.
 
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red elma said:
It is a reasonable increase given the global inflation
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Exactly! All that steel, aluminum, copper, ports, chips, wires, supply chain what-all, etc in the Apple Music service have certainly had price increases just like all other commodities. I mean, look at gasoline alone. The gasoline in AM must be costing Apple a fortune. Lithium is out of control and think about how much Lithium AM uses. Isn't there some baby formula in there too? TP? Think about all that Asian supply-chain price hiking hitting digital music file distribution from domestic iCloud servers. The obvious inflation causes goes on and on. ;)
 
dmylrea said:
So in your brain a 50 cent increase is the same as a $300 increase because it's the same percentage?
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Probably in their brain they are thinking about the relative economic value. That is what a percentage is representing here.

Of course you speak in terms exclusive to the US Dollar which already indicates a certain (limited) perspective.

Perhaps try reading and studying concepts on relativity by Einstein or maybe a simple book on economics and you might begin to understand.
 
I7guy said:
Umm, you know that using percentage hides the scale. Increasing the price from one cent to two cents is a 100% increase. At the end of the day it is still a one cent increase.
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No it doesn’t. If something is only worth a penny and you raise the price to two the scale is accurate. If you don’t use percentages it assumes equal value when it’s not.
 
211 said:
I understand the concept of insurance, but music streaming is different as I doubt anyone uses their $10 in full that other people’s $10 are needed, considering how little is paid per track played
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I guess that's why Spotify is super profitable.
 
HobeSoundDarryl said:
And of course, to get how the crowd here really feels about "small" price increases in streaming services around here, swap the player away from being Apple. Browse any given "Netflix raising $1/month thread" like this one: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-plans-4k-streaming-now-20-per-month.2331263/ How different "we" feel about "tiny" price increases when it's not Apple. ;)

Amazon Prime increase sentiment: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...embership-fee-by-17-for-us-customers.2333685/

ESPN+ increase sentiment: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...spn-to-6-99-per-month-69-99-per-year.2304043/

Search and see. It appears anyone else asks for a little more: bad, robbery, ripoff, rebellion, gather the torches & pitchforks. They should pay ME that much to take the service. Bait & Switch. There should be a law against. Get the stake ready and start the fire. Etc. ;)
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Netflix price hikes have been extra bad because they are raising the price while decreasing the value of their service. At least apple only raised the price. I mean, 34% is jacking the price up, but they could have also removed music as well.
 
We always have excuses for Apple. ESPN+ has been adding more expensive sports programming. Give that thread a peek and see how "we" feel about that small price increase on a relative basis.

Amazon purchased the entirety of MGM and their huge library and locked up a piece of NFL game exclusivity. Give that thread a peek and see how "we" feel about their price increase.

Et all. Do searches for any of them. "We" seem to be softest on Disney+ price increases for some reason (and by soft, I mean not quite the Netflix/Amazon/ESPN+/Google/Samsung/Etc typicals) but let any other streamer DARE ask for a dollar more around here. The Wrath of the Appleverse rapidly unleashes fury, fire, brimstone, etc. ;)

I can only imagine if Spotify demanded a nickel more. :eek:
 
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genovelle said:
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.
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Mighty impressive mental gymnastics going on here.
 
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People wondering about the price increase need to go outside and look at prices of basic commodities like fuel and bread.
Not only that, many countries like mine are increasing their VATs.
 
HobeSoundDarryl said:
We always have excuses for Apple. ESPN+ has been adding more expensive sports programming. Give that thread a peek and see how "we" feel about that small price increase on a relative basis.

Amazon purchased the entirety of MGM and their huge library and locked up a piece of NFL game exclusivity. Give that thread a peek and see how "we" feel about their price increase.

Et all. Do searches for any of them. "We" seem to be softest on Disney+ price increases for some reason (and by soft, I mean not quite the Netflix/Amazon/ESPN+/Google/Samsung/Etc typicals) but let any other streamer DARE ask for a dollar more around here. The Wrath of the Appleverse rapidly unleashes fury, fire, brimstone, etc. ;)

I can only imagine if Spotify demanded a nickel more. :eek:
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What's that you say? netflix raising prices again?? *Starts foaming at the mouth*
 
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RickDEGH said:
Broke students should listen to FM radio - doesn’t cost a thing.
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Broke students use free spotify or YouTube
Wowfunhappy said:
I would like to point out that going from $1.50 to $2.00 is a 33% raise. That is not what I'd consider a "slight increase"!

Yes, it's only 50¢ in absolute terms, but I don't have a good sense of what is standard in these countries
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It’s roughly the price of half a bottle of local beer from 7/11 here in the Philippines.
 
centauratlas said:
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
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Consequences of what, exactly? (he asked argumentatively)
 
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