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Apple Registers Multiple 'Apple One' Domain Names Ahead of Tuesday's Event [Updated]

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Just a day after strings in Apple's own Apple Music app for Android suggested that the company's upcoming subscription bundle will indeed be called "Apple One," Apple acted to register a number of domain names for the term. The move further indicates that Apple One is likely to be the marketing name for the bundles rather than a placeholder.

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While Apple will likely not end up using many of the domain names, it is typical for the company to secure numerous variations in order to ensure that others do not have control of them.

Among the "Apple One" domain names registered by Apple yesterday:
  • appleone.audio
  • appleone.blog
  • appleone.chat
  • appleone.cloud
  • appleone.club
  • appleone.community
  • appleone.film
  • appleone.guide
  • appleone.host
  • appleone.space
  • appleone.tech
  • appleone.website
Full contact information on the domain registrations is redacted for privacy, but given the significant batch of domains and the fact that all of them are pointing to Apple's nameservers, there is essentially no doubt that Apple is responsible for the registrations.

Apple has been able to register a number of less common versions of Apple One domains, but it does not yet control several of the most popular ones such as appleone.com and appleone.net. Both of those domains have been registered by others for well over a decade, and it remains to be seen if Apple will make an attempt to acquire them.

Apple may have some difficulty with appleone.com, which is the home of a fairly large employment agency, while appleone.net is currently parked and listed as available for sale.

The Apple One bundles, which could appear as soon as Tuesday's event or else alongside new iPhones next month, will involve several tiers of Apple's existing services offered at a slight discount. A basic package is expected to offer ‌Apple Music‌ and ‌Apple TV‌+, while a second tier will also include Apple Arcade. A third bundle tier will include all of the aforementioned services along with Apple News+.

There will also be a higher-end tier that includes ‌Apple Music‌, ‌Apple TV‌+, ‌Apple Arcade‌, ‌Apple News‌+, and iCloud storage, and there may also be a new fitness-oriented service that offers virtual fitness classes.

Update 8:10 a.m.: Additional subscription bundle references such as "Cancel Apple One" and "Keep Apple One" have been discovered in localization files for the Manage Subscriptions screen in iOS 14 by 9to5Mac.

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Among the "Apple One" domain names registered by Apple yesterday:
  • appleone.audio
  • appleone.blog
  • appleone.chat
  • appleone.cloud
  • appleone.club
  • appleone.community
  • appleone.film
  • appleone.guide
  • appleone.host
  • appleone.space
  • appleone.tech
  • appleone.website
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You guys are all way off the mark.

Apple is going to announce this week they've bought the country, Sierra Leone, in an effort to move production out of China. The entire country is going to be dedicated to producing iOS and MacOS devices.

Having ownership of an entire country means Apple can set the tax rates. Scared of another standoff with the EU, Apple intends to move it's worldwide services base from Ireland to Sierra Leone in order to maximise profits. All services revenue will be diverted through Sierra Leone. Or, to give it it's new name, App Leone.
 
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An a la carte choice option would be good.  makes money on these services as it is, and allowing folks to tailor make their bundle would further their customer satisfaction ratings.
 
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HiVolt said:
I truly wish they would allow you to choose the items in the bundle. I have no interest in Apple News or Apple TV, but I could be persuaded to a bundle that included Apple Music, Apple Arcade & iCloud storage.
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Indeed. A ‘roll your own‘ bundle.
 
BigTRQ said:
An a la carte choice option would be good.  makes money on these services as it is, and allowing folks to tailor make their bundle would further their customer satisfaction ratings.
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Apple has obviously thought of all scenarios, including this simple one.

Rest assured, you’ll have options and if you don’t, Apple has determined it to make the most sense...which is likely correct for the business.
 
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Apple has such potential for their services, but they all seem like they were built in a board room and not by anyone who would actually use the services.

  • Apple Music is slow and buggy, especially on Mac. There’s no comparable feature to Spotify Connect even though Apple loves to tout its ecosystem and seamlessness. iPad app is missing out on desktop library management. Weird UI quirks like not being able to add a song to your library from the Now Playing cover without going into a submenu, and the queueing system is confusing. Why do you have to search either the Apple Music library or your own library, not both at the same time like Spotify?
  • Apple News is unorganized and messy. You can’t even organize the news sections on the home page how you want. There’s no reader version option available for consistent formatting across articles. News+ Audio is only available on iPhone, and there’s no good way to discover new Audio content. Too much focus on “For You” algorithm.
  • Apple TV+ is pretty good, but Apple needs to figure a way to make it the prominent interface when you launch the app and having channels secondary, rather than it being a subsection within channels. Also, why not add Chromecast support so more people are likely to use your service the way they want?
  • iCloud is good as well, but more storage options and end-to-end encryption would make it better.
 
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It seems they tend to register many domain names under a top-level domain (TLD, this case, .website) just to protect their intellectual property rights. I wonder why Apple doesn't use their own .apple TLD, although they don't register either one.apple or appleone.apple domain name yet; however, they can quickly register and setup if they want because it's their own TLD: http://whois.nic.apple/
Apple also registered apple.one domain name. The following is abbreviated whois search result at: https://whois.nic.one/
Domain Name: apple.one
Updated Date: 2020-04-11T09:26:39Z
Creation Date: 2015-05-08T06:58:46Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2021-05-08T06:58:46Z
Registrant Organization: Apple Inc.
Registrant State/Province: California
Registrant Country: US
Name Server: b.ns.apple.com
Name Server: d.ns.apple.com
Name Server: c.ns.apple.com
Name Server: a.ns.apple.com
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2020-09-12T15:14:49Z <<<
 
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