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Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple News+ Receiving Price Increases
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just cancel my ATV, it's not worth all the price increases, good luck to Apple they will lose some people over this.
Yarr, back to sailing the high seas we go.
WHAT. THE. F🤬K.
$10 for Apple TV+?!?!?! Monarch better be an HBO GOD TIER show… They have BY FAR the smallest amount of offerings of any service.
TWELVE DOLLARS FOR NEWS LOLOLOL. Are you kidding me????
They have the audacity to even price any of these services above $7 per month?
And $37 for One Premium???? WTFFFFF.
$10 for Apple TV+?!?!?! Monarch better be an HBO GOD TIER show… They have BY FAR the smallest amount of offerings of any service.
TWELVE DOLLARS FOR NEWS LOLOLOL. Are you kidding me????
They have the audacity to even price any of these services above $7 per month?
And $37 for One Premium???? WTFFFFF.
For me, AppleTV+ is worth the increase. Some of the best programming in streaming. Only other services I subscribe to are Apple Music, which I don't use all that often and the iCloud backup at 200GB. I probably don't truly need 200GB but it's cheap enough. My ATV+ and Music subs just renewed in July and as I pay yearly, I hope there aren't any surcharge on those until my renewal comes up next year.
Just depends on which services you want to keep. Just did a check in our family's plan. We mainly only use Apple Music and iCloud+ 2TB, but those two individually are $26.98/month on their own. Add in Fitness+, which we use occasionally, and it goes to $36.97/month. And now we're back to square one.
I was initially inclined to drop the bundle as well, but for our use case that might be a little penny wise, pound foolish. Everyone's mileage will obviously vary on that.
Seems like Apple is jumping on the bandwagon of raising subscriptions prices due to greed...it's hard to see how the cost of providing these services has increased that much. I was okay with last year's price increase, but this is too much. Constant price increases that provide me with no additional benefits are getting really old.
Apple is increasing the prices of some of its subscription-based services, including Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple News+, in the U.S. and many other countries around the world. The higher prices are shown on Apple's website.
The price changes in the U.S. are as follows:
For those who subscribe to Apple TV+ on an annual basis, the price has increased from $69 per year to $99 per year accordingly.
- Apple TV+: $6.99 per month → $9.99 per month
- Apple Arcade: $4.99 per month → $6.99 per month
- Apple News+: $9.99 per month → $12.99 per month
Apple One bundle prices are also increasing as a result:
In the U.S., these are the first-ever price increases for Apple Arcade and Apple News+ since the services launched in November 2019, while Apple TV+ last saw a price increase in October 2022. Apple should send out emails notifying subscribers of the price changes over time.
- Individual: $16.95 per month → $19.95 per month
- Family: $22.95 per month → $25.95 per month
- Premier: $32.95 per month → $37.95 per month
There are no price increases for Apple Music and Apple Fitness+ today.
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Well, the price of EVERYTHING is going up. I feel like I got mugged when I go "retail" grocery shopping for things I can't justify getting from the price club. But from what I hear, there is no inflation. Inflation is transitory. Anyway.
I never subbed to Apple News. I really don't need to pay someone else to be pointing me in the direction they want for news. I can kinda figure that out on my own.
I have Apple Arcade and Music through my VZW subscription. This is also how I get Hulu and Disney+. We never watch Disney+ because, well. It sucks. Once I saw all the Marvel movies I missed when I was busy with other things, I never logged into it again. Hulu is unwatchable on my Fire Stick because the sound cuts out after commercials and no one at Hulu can figure that nonsense out.
Arcade is a MEH experience. I played a few games when I had serious time to kill with little to no connectivity. It's not something I would pay "real" money for, let alone shoulder a price increase to keep.
Apple TV has one show I watch. It's not on right now, so I don't sub it. When that show comes on I subscribe, watch, and then drop it.
The one thing I do use every day is Apple Music. I would howl like a yak in heat if they raised the price substantially, but I wouldn't drop it. Next to internet service at home and my cell phone, it's probably the one thing I wouldn't drop.
I did without SiriusXM for a while when was ill and money was so tight George Washington was bitching about me squeezing his green picture in my pocket every time I spent a buck, but I turned that back on.
The price of everything is going up, and people are eventually going to have to choose between services and for some providers, that's gonna get ugly. Like cancel cable ugly.
I never subbed to Apple News. I really don't need to pay someone else to be pointing me in the direction they want for news. I can kinda figure that out on my own.
I have Apple Arcade and Music through my VZW subscription. This is also how I get Hulu and Disney+. We never watch Disney+ because, well. It sucks. Once I saw all the Marvel movies I missed when I was busy with other things, I never logged into it again. Hulu is unwatchable on my Fire Stick because the sound cuts out after commercials and no one at Hulu can figure that nonsense out.
Arcade is a MEH experience. I played a few games when I had serious time to kill with little to no connectivity. It's not something I would pay "real" money for, let alone shoulder a price increase to keep.
Apple TV has one show I watch. It's not on right now, so I don't sub it. When that show comes on I subscribe, watch, and then drop it.
The one thing I do use every day is Apple Music. I would howl like a yak in heat if they raised the price substantially, but I wouldn't drop it. Next to internet service at home and my cell phone, it's probably the one thing I wouldn't drop.
I did without SiriusXM for a while when was ill and money was so tight George Washington was bitching about me squeezing his green picture in my pocket every time I spent a buck, but I turned that back on.
The price of everything is going up, and people are eventually going to have to choose between services and for some providers, that's gonna get ugly. Like cancel cable ugly.
Seems like Apple is jumping on the bandwagon of raising subscriptions prices due to greed...it's hard to see how the cost of providing these services has increased that much. I was okay with last year's price increase, but this is too much. Constant price increases that provide me with no additional benefits are getting really old.
Apple is increasing the prices of some of its subscription-based services, including Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple News+, in the U.S. and many other countries around the world. The higher prices are shown on Apple's website.
The price changes in the U.S. are as follows:
For those who subscribe to Apple TV+ on an annual basis, the price has increased from $69 per year to $99 per year accordingly.
- Apple TV+: $6.99 per month → $9.99 per month
- Apple Arcade: $4.99 per month → $6.99 per month
- Apple News+: $9.99 per month → $12.99 per month
Apple One bundle prices are also increasing as a result:
In the U.S., these are the first-ever price increases for Apple Arcade and Apple News+ since the services launched in November 2019, while Apple TV+ last saw a price increase in October 2022. Apple should send out emails notifying subscribers of the price changes over time.
- Individual: $16.95 per month → $19.95 per month
- Family: $22.95 per month → $25.95 per month
- Premier: $32.95 per month → $37.95 per month
There are no price increases for Apple Music and Apple Fitness+ today.
Article Link: Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple News+ Receiving Price Increases
Apple News $12.99
I cancelled Apple Music this month. YouTube Music included with my YouTube Premium more than makes up for it..
I cancelled Apple Music this month. YouTube Music included with my YouTube Premium more than makes up for it..
If everyone will cancel their subscription - Apple will never raise their prices again
Apple is increasing the prices of some of its subscription-based services, including Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple News+, in the U.S. and many other countries around the world. The higher prices are shown on Apple's website.
The price changes in the U.S. are as follows:
For those who subscribe to Apple TV+ on an annual basis, the price has increased from $69 per year to $99 per year accordingly.
- Apple TV+: $6.99 per month → $9.99 per month
- Apple Arcade: $4.99 per month → $6.99 per month
- Apple News+: $9.99 per month → $12.99 per month
Apple One bundle prices are also increasing as a result:
In the U.S., these are the first-ever price increases for Apple Arcade and Apple News+ since the services launched in November 2019, while Apple TV+ last saw a price increase in October 2022. Apple should send out emails notifying subscribers of the price changes over time.
- Individual: $16.95 per month → $19.95 per month
- Family: $22.95 per month → $25.95 per month
- Premier: $32.95 per month → $37.95 per month
There are no price increases for Apple Music and Apple Fitness+ today.
Article Link: Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple News+ Receiving Price Increases
I say let's teach them all a lesson in greediness
Apple News is the weirdest service... in the UK I really recommend the Libby App - it's free with a library card and has many free magazine subscriptions you can download etc https://libbyapp.com/
Just cancelled my Apple One Premier Family. We're moving just to Apple Music and iCloud+ Storage now. Yeah it's $11 per month less than the new premier prices, but the other services were "nice to have" at the $5 extra. Now, nope.
So who's more evil, Apple increasing prices 43 percent or Netflix increasing prices between 0 percent (Standard with ads and Standard plans) and 20 percent (Basic plan)? The Premium plan went up 15 percent.
Have people cancelled their Apple TV+ sub for this like they did when Netflix raised their prices a week ago? Asking for a friend.
I think that was just a 12 month deal....(I have it too) which I think said it would just bill monthly to your T-mobile bill after the year. I will cancel that too as soon as my year is up.
EDIT: Just checked and I have a reminder on my calendar that my year is up on 12/12.
TV+ already sucked and now it sucks even harder at the much higher price. The content quality isn't there to justify a 43% price hike. It's a bunch of unwatchable junk. I've got a free subscription to TV+ right now and I'm not watching it at all.
News+ is just as bad. It has many different contributing news outlets but they all say the same thing and have the same editorial view. There's no value in that. You can just look at any big news vendor's website and get all the same info for free.
News+ is just as bad. It has many different contributing news outlets but they all say the same thing and have the same editorial view. There's no value in that. You can just look at any big news vendor's website and get all the same info for free.
"Scary fast"
What Timmy's minions said when he asked them how quickly people were leaving their subscription services.
What Timmy's minions said when he asked them how quickly people were leaving their subscription services.