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'Apple One' Bundles Introduced With Apple Music, Apple TV+ and More, Pricing Starts at $14.95/Month
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I hope they come out with an annual price plan.
Currently I’m on Apple Music annual price plan at £99.
I’m going to assume that Apple TV+ won’t be included in the new iPhones due to the launch of Apple One now.
Apple TV+ annual costs £49.
Apple Music and TV+ is what I would be interested in. Now if I was paying for them both monthly, then £14.95 a makes great sense for Apple One.
However paying annually for Apple Music and being willing to pay annually for Apple TV+ means that an Apple One subscription would be £31.40 more than what I’d be paying.
Apple One may not be worth it for those of us who subscribe annually.
Currently I’m on Apple Music annual price plan at £99.
I’m going to assume that Apple TV+ won’t be included in the new iPhones due to the launch of Apple One now.
Apple TV+ annual costs £49.
Apple Music and TV+ is what I would be interested in. Now if I was paying for them both monthly, then £14.95 a makes great sense for Apple One.
However paying annually for Apple Music and being willing to pay annually for Apple TV+ means that an Apple One subscription would be £31.40 more than what I’d be paying.
Apple One may not be worth it for those of us who subscribe annually.
It seems the Apple TV+ free one year with new device is a “one per apple id” promo right?...I have family sharing set up and we were sharing my promo which is expiring, but my wife got a new macbook and it has a free 1 year...we activated it on HER apple ID while she’s part of family sharing...will all family members get access to HER subscription now?
Thanks!
Then it's not really an "upgrade", you're paying the full price of 2TB which makes these bundles quite useless unless you want exactly the storage capacity they come with :/
Premiere is not available in Sweden unfortunately! Plus I never use Arcade (and wouldn't use News). I am interested in Fitness+ though. If I could have a bundle for 2TB iCloud, Music, TV+ and Fitness+, that'd be awesome
Thanks!
Then it's not really an "upgrade", you're paying the full price of 2TB which makes these bundles quite useless unless you want exactly the storage capacity they come with :/
Premiere is not available in Sweden unfortunately! Plus I never use Arcade (and wouldn't use News). I am interested in Fitness+ though. If I could have a bundle for 2TB iCloud, Music, TV+ and Fitness+, that'd be awesome
Smart thing may be to find a couple “family members” to share the cost and go for Premiere!
I'm already paying for News+, Apple Music, Apple TV+ (well, free this year but I was going to re-up), and 200 GB of iCloud storage that I am rapidly running out of. So for $3 more than the monthly subscription for these services, I get Apple Arcade , a bump to 2 Tb iCloud storage (desperately needed!) and Fitness+ (which I doubt I will ever use). On the face of it, it sounds like a good idea even though the savings are actually a tad less, since I pay for an annual subscription to Apple Music and would do so for Apple TV+.
My big question is whether I get a prorata refund on what's left of my annual subscription to Apple Music, which runs until the end of January.
My big question is whether I get a prorata refund on what's left of my annual subscription to Apple Music, which runs until the end of January.
Well let's be frank... Apple went with bundles that encourage people to pay them more money each month. For each person that will truly save money with these bundles (i.e. they were previously paying more per month) there are countless others that Apple is hoping to up-sell into services they weren't planning on buying in the first place.
There is a reason Apple didn't allow mixing and matching and it wasn't about keeping things simple for customers--they want to entice people with "savings" while getting them to spend more than they were previously.
They chose those very paltry storage tiers deliberately. They know that 50GB isn't enough for many individuals and 200GB isn't enough for many (most?) families. But rather than paying the extra money for upgraded storage they're hoping you'll just go for Premier (even though it costs more) because of the perceived value of all those extra services.
Apple is very cunning--I'll give them that.
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Am I right in thinking this is the first time there’s been a family sharing option for AppleTV+? No mention of a family sharing option for Apple TV Channels though? That’s what I’d really like (otherwise I just have to sign all the family Apple TV’s in to my account directly, which is a pain).
Edit: Seems you can already do that. At least, I can find the option for sharing them. I don’t seem to be able to actually see them on my family member’s Apple TVs though.
Edit: Seems you can already do that. At least, I can find the option for sharing them. I don’t seem to be able to actually see them on my family member’s Apple TVs though.
So it's accurate that if I get a gift card that says it's for "App Store & iTunes" that I can now add that money to my Apple Store account and use it for hardware?
Hang on a minute - I already have the option of sharing my Apple TV+ with my family. So what’s the benefit of the family plan?
Staff: “Sir, have you decided how we should handle Spotify?”
Tim: “The path of the righteous man is beset of all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of the charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.”
Staff: “O_O“
Tim: “ “
Staff: “Uhhh. We’ve got the designs for the new Apple Watch bands.”
Tim: “Oh gosh, goody. Let me see them.”
If the premier plan was £26.99 I’d probably go for it. It would shift the balance from paying a lot more a month for stuff I’m not that interested in, to paying a bit extra a month to get stuff I’m not that interested in but might as well go for it because it’s a trivial amount extra.
I’m sharing the price with 3 households - who are part of the family. Currently pay £5 a month for Apple Music so another £5 a month for everything, even if you only use 1 or 2 more is a no brainer. All 6 services for £10 a month? yes please.
My original point that this discussion was following on from was about a disparity in US and UK pricing which results in the uplift from Apple Music family plan + 2TB iCloud storage being substantially more in GBP compared to USD.
Your particular circumstance seems to make it attractive which is fine and great. But when it is a £7 uplift rather than a $5 uplift, something has gone wrong somewhere.
I'm trying to financially justify getting the Premiere bundle. My wife and I currently get Apple music through our Verizon plan. They have new plans that give you the Disney+ bundle for free instead. We currently have a free year of D+ through Verizon. I pay for the rest of the Hulu/ESPN bundle. I also pay $9.99 for 2TB of iCloud. If she could do without hotspot I could bump her down $10 to a lower plan then it would make sense.
After looking at the Canadian pricing on this, I think we'll be getting the Premiere bundle. Given that I already pay for a Apple Music family plan as well as shared 50 GB of iCloud storage, it's only doubling my monthly cost to add all the extra services and be able to share all of them with my kids.
Yes, I only learned from this thread today that despite having a free Apple TV+ subscription since last November that I could have been sharing it with my family all along. D'oh!
You’re missing that people here complain no matter what...even if it were free it wouldn’t be enough storage or something.
I'm still confused by this, and may never fully understand it. I pay for both. If you "match" songs via Apple Music alone, I think there's a possibility you may lose your originals in the process if they add DRM files. But again I could be (hopelessly) confused. I don't want to ever be missing music files if I cancel one service or the other.
Keep your original files backed up and don’t delete them. Letting Apple match them means they are scanning your music and providing a DRM copy on the cloud. They shouldn’t be touching the original file, but there were horror stories by one notable blogger that he lost his files. Even if this happened, a copy on a separate hard drive is the remedy. Personally, I haven’t had that issue.
I had iTunes Match prior to Apple Music. The big difference was that that matching process didn’t add DRM so it also worked as a back up. However, I never trusted it as my only copy.
I have Match and still pay for it, so they shouldn't be adding DRM to anything I own. Since I still have my physical library (CD and/or vinyl), and purchased many albums on iTunes over the years, all that stuff would be fine. But there's plenty of digital music I acquired elsewhere. Not to mention the hours I spent ripping and uploading CDs pre-Apple Music. You're right I should make a playlist of all non-DRM songs (all "my" music) and download everything to my computer and back it up offline.
Apple One and Fitness+ are not pieces of hardware that take time to fabricate, manufacture, ship, fill distribution etc. I don't understand announcing this and not being able to go live with it. When will this be available?