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Apple Offers 54% Off Apple TV+ for Two Months to Stop Cancellations
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Yeah, hi, it's me, the one person who prefers not to turn off their brain when engaging with art.
But that's the problem right here, isn't it? Apple pumping billions into making mass appeal slop. Just because it has high production values doesn't make it good.
When stuff isn't good, why would anyone pay for it every month?
Apple can bite me. Sorry the flood of cancellations after the price hike was announced had them making Surprise Pikachu face.
It’s their choice to burn cash fast and loose with these Hollywood welfare projects, but it’s ours as well to not support that decision.
It’s their choice to burn cash fast and loose with these Hollywood welfare projects, but it’s ours as well to not support that decision.
But he thinks you're gonna love it!
When everything is rapidly moving to a subscriptions model. With some companies breaking previously free features if you don't subscribe, screw them.
Do forgive me for the reckless impropriety of harbouring a preference distinct from your own.
More truth there than you might realize.
Former XM subscriber here. Finally had enough of the annual drill of getting an exorbitant renewal rate, that they could magically make reasonable when called to cancel. Told them I wasn't renewing again regardless.
Apple: don't turn yourselves into this.
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And how do you "get your money up"? Develop IAP-infested apps for the App Store?
Apple handled this…poorly. They needed to raise rates more incrementally.
And if they’re raising the rates because they’re about to have F1 on the platform, they should have tried a different tact— subscribe for $9.99 and get F1 for a lower cost of $9.99 sooner. Not smart. They could have gained subscribers instead of losing them.
Agreed though I canceled my last subscription at $2.99/mo. Hard to justify paying for a channel that rarely adds new content and then they do its copycat stuff instead of original
I wish I knew which narrative to believe - is it bad because Apple makes the content? Or is it bad because Apple doesn't make the content?
Eye of the beholder, I guess. In the MR forums it doesn't matter what's true as long as it ends up with "Apple bad!"
I accepted a "free" XM subscription that was so frustrating to cancel I vowed never to use their service again. If I can sign up online, I should be able to cancel online and not have to sit through ten minutes of "but what if I offered you to pay only $X for Y months to not drop our service?". Screw that.
What this means if that for the first 2 months the service is only about $4.99 overpriced!
Poor Apple, they must be struggling terribly and barely getting by. How much do they need to make in order to pay dividends, bonuses and those fake awards to Trump.
I'm so done with streaming. I get HBO for free but only use it for Bill Maher & John Oliver - I would never rewatch Sopranos via streaming service, only my own pirated BD rips. I pirated all of Carlin's specials last night - idk where to find them on streaming and if I found them, there's a good chance the 4:3 aspect ratio will have been cropped to 16:9 and zoomed. Most streaming is a doom scroll through stuff I've never heard of. It's not 1993 when "everyone" saw Jurassic Park - I can't remember any recent movies being pumped up big time besides Oppenheimer and Barbie and that was two summers ago. I can't remember having FOMO over a movie or TV show in so long.
In fairness, all awards are fake. Awards are shallow, self-stroking nonsense.
The customer base has been so frog boiled.
This company is but a mere shell of what so many of us originally loved about it.
This company is but a mere shell of what so many of us originally loved about it.