Still a great deal. Wish I had all the money I spent on tapes and CD's when I was in school.
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Apple Music Student Plan Pricing Increases by 20% in US, UK, EU, Canada, and Other Countries [Updated]
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They are probably desperate to maintain the main £9.99/$9.99 headline price for regular users. Once this breaks the £10/$10 barrier I expect more people will cancel.
It's called inflation. Business costs are going up everywhere – including infrastructure costs for running massive streaming services. Costs raise, and companies pass price hikes on to customers to cover those increasing costs. I'm upset I can no longer buy a new car for $3,000 like I could in the 1960s, but I don't blame the CEOs of Ford and GM.
And I'm still waiting for cross fade... I give apple one more year to add it or then I'm cancelling 🤣
Gotta pay for that new office building no one wants to work at.
I see this so many time in many forums « Apple Music sounds better than Spotify «
How can AAC 256 sounds better than OGG 320 ?
I have the AirPods Max and done many many tests on same songs , I don’t hear any difference.
Sometimes a difference with the Masters used , but a difference in quality not at all.
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Apple getting ahead of the possible (i.e. very likely) increase in the streaming royalty rate for 2023 to 2027 period that the Copyright Royalty Board will be deciding on very soon since the current period (2018 to 2022) will be expiring.
I think it's also why Amazon raised Amazon Music subscription prices back in May.
I expect Spotify and others to follow with rate increases soon/sometime this year
Renewed push for streaming rate increase in US as songwriters secure big win on physical music royalties
The Copyright Royalty Board in the US is set to approve a 32% increase in mechanical royalties for physical music and downloads.
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Yea that’s it Apple. Squeeze an extra dollar out of students who don’t have it. You really are the scum of the earth.
Students could get Pandora for free...
It is an enjoyable but unnecessary service for students, with many of them using more than the rest of us but paying much less, thus unfairly making us subsidize them. Our price might still increase, but the increase would be more if the student prices stay the same.
Of course, part of it is that Apple is making us subsidize them to get them invested in the service and less likely to go to a competitor when they eventually have to pay full price. Those of us who pay full price are paying for the students to enjoy the service, and paying part of Apple's marketing to make this happen. I don't want to be robbed more than I have to.
I just don't see the reason for the increase. Unless the standard plan is increasing too, why target students for more money? I don't get it.
You haven't paid much attention to Apple under Tim Cook have you?
So how about Apple eat the cost instead of squeezing people.Apple getting ahead of the possible (i.e. very likely) increase in the streaming royalty rate for 2023 to 2027 period that the Copyright Royalty Board will be deciding on very soon since the current period (2018 to 2022) will be expiring.
I think it's also why Amazon raised Amazon Music subscription prices back in May.
I expect Spotify and others to follow with rate increases soon/sometime this year
Renewed push for streaming rate increase in US as songwriters secure big win on physical music royalties
The Copyright Royalty Board in the US is set to approve a 32% increase in mechanical royalties for physical music and downloads.www.musicweek.com
Tbh the one and only reason I use Apple Music is because it's baked into the Siri/Shazam functionality (and because the family has Apple One) and I use that a lot
I have found the only thing even remotely on point music-wise is YT music and/or YT itself. Apple Music feels like it is being curated by a bunch of guys in their 50s, with a sprinkle of generic mainstream music on top of that.
Same with Spotify, not particularly much better.
Maybe I am not the typical customer, but I never got the idea behind a music library anyway. I can't fathom myself listening to the same songs for decades
True, just a shame they're taking this unnecessary choice. It's not like they need the cash - student actually do at the moment. Everything is increasing and this will surely switch more people off... although I imagine they'll have a sneaky plan to hide the increase notice at the bottom of a spam email.
As time goes on, the less I care about Apple Music. Apple have made some sloppy decisions, and iTunes/Apple Music has become worse with each version.
It should be snappy and slick. Instead we have an application on Mac with tons of wasted white space, arrows and navigation all over the place and really bad UI.
It should be snappy and slick. Instead we have an application on Mac with tons of wasted white space, arrows and navigation all over the place and really bad UI.
It torpedoed pretty much everything. Duplicated albums, albums with missing tracks, hidden purchases. You name it, it messed with it. And this was with a library that was very well managed prior to the advent of Apple Music. Not saying everyone will be affected in the same ways but personally I’m never touching it ever again.
When I was a student in college in the 1970s we didn't get "student discounts" on much, if anything. I couldn't have afforded much anyway. We had to pool our money together to get cable TV in those days, and any other luxury was out of the question. These days I think most students pretty much just get mom and dad to pay for everything, so the discounts are probably going to parents more often than the students anyway. Retirement discounts would be nice, but fat chance of seeing those with Apple!
