So when they raised the price last year, it was also due to the strikes?
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Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple News+ Receiving Price Increases
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iCloud+ from 200 GB up is already family sharing.
Exactly what I did a few weeks ago. If Apple can keep their margins 30%+ I can keep my bill under $26. If they raise will re-evaluate.
I'll be cancelling Apple One and going back to just the Music plan. Don't use Arcade and have only watched two shows on Apple TV...
Well we tried that experiment over a decade ago and the general public (in its infinite ironic illogical wisdom), decided paying $3-$5 for mobile games was so over the top they’d rather have free games and spend 10x that on gems and other garbage in-app purchases.
So….sadly the public gets what it deserves in this case
I think it refers to how you have to cut down on food to afford the pricing.Maybe what's "scary fast" is how quickly these things are getting more expensive
Wow, super hard to ditch Apple TV+ & Music in Apple One ... but a la cart: no problemo; because the three services I really want to keep add up to Apple One's cost:
Today's prices:
Apple TV+ @ $6.99
Apple Music Family @$16.99
iCloud storage w/ 2TB @ $9.99
Total: $33.97 ...
So Apple One today is those + other stuff I could do without for less ($32.95).
With increased pricing, there's almost no reason not to try Spotify & use the separate services so that it's easier to occasionally put a hold on it or cancel Apple TV+.
I already cancel Netflix or hold it every other month, and the same for Hulu and other services.
That is the only advantage of all these streaming services -- especially through the App Store -- easy peasy to cancel & restart anything.
When the price goes up, just use it less.
Now I just have to dig up the app that makes it easy to migrate from Apple Music to Spotify (and back again), this will always be a cat-and-mouse game now.
Today's prices:
Apple TV+ @ $6.99
Apple Music Family @$16.99
iCloud storage w/ 2TB @ $9.99
Total: $33.97 ...
So Apple One today is those + other stuff I could do without for less ($32.95).
With increased pricing, there's almost no reason not to try Spotify & use the separate services so that it's easier to occasionally put a hold on it or cancel Apple TV+.
I already cancel Netflix or hold it every other month, and the same for Hulu and other services.
That is the only advantage of all these streaming services -- especially through the App Store -- easy peasy to cancel & restart anything.
When the price goes up, just use it less.
Now I just have to dig up the app that makes it easy to migrate from Apple Music to Spotify (and back again), this will always be a cat-and-mouse game now.
What the flip man. Well, even more reason to break up the bundles and just take what I need now.
ATV+ doesn't have a lot of content. You can subscribe for 1-2 months out of the year and watch everything. Just pick the time of year when you don't have a lot going on (winter, for example, up north) and binge all your TV then.
If you play it smart you can rotate streaming services and watch everything you want to watch and pay a quarter to a fifth of what you would have you subscribed to everything year round. You just can't watch right away when stuff comes out.
If you play it smart you can rotate streaming services and watch everything you want to watch and pay a quarter to a fifth of what you would have you subscribed to everything year round. You just can't watch right away when stuff comes out.
Sounds like you need to reevaluate your spending and tech habits if your worried about the price of food.
In Canada, news organizations (edit: radio and TV) have gone after Facebook, Google, and this week Apple for compensation on showing their articles. https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/broadcasters-make-apple-pay-news-outlets If Apple's being asked to pay, that revenue needs to come from somewhere? It's a lot of money per month, and something I'm not interested in paying, but presuming there's some sort of pay structure that is indeed needed for the content.
News and Arcade are complete jokes. I've tried News a few times. Each time I cancel the same day. 300 magazines that no one reads. Articles that I can find on the web for free. AND ITS NOT EVEN AD-FREE for 12.99. GTFO.
I’m about to do this myself. My current monthly expires Nov 4th but I think if I pay it full now they should warrant that price. If not I’ll cancel which is what I was going to do anyway.
Apple News would be the best option if not for the ads or if the they would stop shipping a universal app or if they made the universal app do things one expects on MacOS like responsive layout, ability to make the font much bigger, a reader mode ... but nope. It has more ads than anything else.
I will also stop my Apple One subscription. I would like the option to get a custom bundle that wasn't stupidly priced. I don't need Arcade or 2TB of iCrap (I mean iCloud) or a ****** News experience. But the bundle they offer costs more than a bundle without these. SMH
Torrents for-ever I guess.
Welp, looks like it time to drop Apple One and go with Music and iCloud only to save some coin since Apple TV+ comes with T-Mobile.
Writers demanded more money and got it. Actors are demanding more money and will get it
You get to pay for it.
Maybe they're saving the announcement for a later date (Nov. 2 earnings and conferrence call?) because they don't have everything (i.e. advertisers, final pricing) in place yet?
It's like how Netflix announced their intention to offer an ad supported plan during their Q2 2022 earnings but didn't giving pricing or any other details until months later, and didn't make the ad-supported service available until months after that.
So glad Ive always opted for purchasing to own instead of subscribing. Unfortunately too many people are happy with any price these providers decide to charge. Even for ad-supported plans which I’ve always thought should require no subscription whatsoever
You mean a raise 1 year later is totally normal and not timed with every other platform also raising their prices as soon as the writers strike was resolved where they got in some cases 50% more pay?
No. Of course not. Actors also going to get more money.
Don’t worry. YOU get to pay for those increases.