I’ll stick to Freeview, which is….free. Except of course for the BBC tax, but at least our government has control over what they can charge.
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Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple News+ Receiving Price Increases
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Inflation overall has gone down but there's still inflation. We're only seeing negative inflation or deflation with some products/segments.
Some of these Apple price increases likely have much more to do with the increased content, increased costs of content (due in part perhaps to the recent actor and writer strikes and resulting contracts), etc.
Apple One is still a good deal despite the price increase. In the past year I have been able to cancel my Spotify family plan, Tidal Premium, and 2TB Google Drive due to the improved offerings in Apple One. I’ll just have to suck it up and make up the difference by foregoing a couple chocolate chip cookies each month at Chick-Fil-A. My body will thank me.
I just dumped Ios for Samdung, best decision I made, I bought a s20 plus 5g for £90, I bought a 512gb evo card and a new battery for £12, fitted it resealed it with OB1 Job done !
Works great until your house burns down or thieves figure they could use a new home server.
I'm sure that would make more sense money-wise. Honestly? I'm too lazy. All the stuff I currently use plugs directly into iCloud (Photos, iCloud Drive being the big ones) and my appetite for doing stuff like managing my own "cloud" is just not huge these days. I know, you're probably right though! I love this idea in principle.
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No thank you, cancelled AppleOne & I might go on a canceling spree with all of these streaming services Netflix/Disney & Amazon Prime. These prices rises are annoying the heck out of me, but some may still see value in them. Apple Services should really be the perk of buying a Mac or iOS device anyway at a base level.
I would argue that the guy running the $2.6 trillion company probably does fundamentally understand technology and its branding. I might not like it, but whatever they're doing, it's quite clearly working very very well for them and their shareholders. The day they gouge too deep, the market will tell them and they'll pull in their horns.
For a paid service like Apples News, the flooding of ads is annoying.
I don't know about everyone else's use cases, but for me, ss (streaming services) are still the far lesser evils. With ss, I can get a smorgasbord of content, on-demand, and ad-free, all for $10 to $20/mo. I don't care about sports nor live TV, so that def. frees me up from having to consider cable TV. And even though we've had all these price increases on the ss side, cable TV still jacks up the rate after promo pricing (which starts off as good to barely decent as is), but then adds so many fees that your final bill is far off from what was advertised (imagine paying for your $800 iPad, only to find out there's another $300 tacked on to it, "for reasons").
The FCC is trying to get companies like Comcast require they list all fees up front, but their response was "it's too hard". I still loathe cable TV companies far more than the streamers.
That's why you have a separate backups of your most critical data somewhere else. I actually have 2 synology NAS's at home, but if my home burns down or they steal the servers, I wont lose anything important. I'm an IT guy, it's what we do.
Just like Nokia's phenomenal profits just before they cratered!
LOL, go short sell AAPL then, my dude. You'll make a killing!
Same. I'm not an IT guy, but I know enough to fire up Carbon Copy Cloner once a month and schlep my portable HDD back to my desk at work. Truly not hard.That's why you have a separate backups of your most critical data somewhere else. I actually have 2 synology NAS's at home, but if my home burns down or they steal the servers, I wont lose anything important. I'm an IT guy, it's what we do.
I also noticed that Costco doesn't sell gift cards for these 3 anymore! Would've been nice to snag a year of ATV+ for $63 (although those that got it for $45/yr made out like a bandit!). Oh well. It's more per month to pay $10/mo, but that frees me up to only do 1 to 3 months at a time
Would've been nice to snag a year of ATV+ for $63 (although those that got it for $45/yr made out like a bandit!). Oh well. It's more per month to pay $10/mo, but that frees me up to only do 1 to 3 months at a time 
Apple News is designed to suggest things which interest you. The image you posted looks like a suggested podcast which you might or might not be interested in. Since the podcast is free it doesn't meet one definition of an ad:
a paid announcement, as of goods for sale,
and there is no indication that it was any different than other Apple News suggestions, or that it was paid for by anything other than standard Apple News compensation.
Not happy with the increase, but my family gets a lot of use out of 2TB of cloud storage, TV+, Music, and News+. I've been using Fitness+ more and more while on the road too. Not sure where my limit will be, but I'm not ready to throw in the towel quite yet.
Back when it was $5/mo (and even cheaper in the annual plan), it seemed like a steal. The increase to $7 changed that, and at $10… I dunno.
I guess all the competitors have gone way up in pricing as well (especially Netflix, which in my eye is starting to price itself out of the market?). Apple TV+ still has some really great shows I'm looking forward to, but where once I was on the annual plan, I recently unsubscribed from that, and will instead occasionally subscribe to monthly, such as when FAM season 4 comes out.
Sooooooo it's a net loss for Apple, as far as I go as a customer. Oh well.
I will say Apple's whole subscription management seems to do subscripting, unsubscribing, re-subscribing fairly well.
I would like
- if the list view had a column that normalizes to monthly (or yearly, perhaps?) so you can compare different cycles
- better "you're about to renew / your trial is about to end" notifications
