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Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple News+ Receiving Price Increases

jonnysods said:
Big time - I just cancelled my Premier account and went back to the iCloud+ 2TB and Apple Music Family plan. Told the family, they are in agreement.
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This is what I am leaning towards, or maybe just 2TB iCloud and looking at Spotify.
 
Can’t say I’m happy with the increase in the UK. It is 12% but we had an increase a year ago here already. Unfortunately I'm stuck paying the One Premier as across my family we do actually use all the services. All use Music, most use TV+, I'm glad everyone’s stuff is being backed up in 2TB iCloud, daughter and I use Arcade and Fitness+, most of us use News. As there are five of us the cost per person is ~£7.50. If it were for fewer people, or just for me, I’d be dropping most services I think.
 
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I still don’t see the value in Apple News+ when it was $9.99/month, much less so now at $12.99/month.

I figured Apple TV+ was due for a price increase, especially with Netflix and Hulu/Disney+ raising their subscription rates recently.
 
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MacRumors said:


Apple today announced that it is increasing the prices of some of its subscription-based services, including Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple News+, for new and existing subscribers in the U.S. and many other countries around the world.

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The price changes in the U.S. are as follows:
  • 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
For those who subscribe to Apple TV+ on an annual basis, the price has increased from $69 per year to $99 per year accordingly.

Prices for the Apple One bundles that include these services are also increasing as a result:
  • 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
The price increases take effect immediately for new subscribers, and in 30 days from today for existing subscribers, on their next renewal date after that grace period. Apple should send out emails to existing subscribers notifying them about the changes over time.

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+ had its first price increase from $4.99 per month to $6.99 per month in October 2022.

In a statement shared with MacRumors, Apple said it is "focused on delivering the best experiences possible for our customers by consistently adding high-quality entertainment, content, and innovative features to our services."

There are no price increases for Apple Music and Apple Fitness+ today.

Article Link: Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple News+ Receiving Price Increases
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Another dumb oblivious Tim Apple move.
 
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I have Netflix Apple TV free with t-mobile. But honestly I’m not home enough to really watch tv. If I do it’s over the air tv or YouTube creator content.
 
I was offered News+ in the UK and cancelled it in just a few days. US- centric with only 1 major newspaper title! Magazines were mostly 2nd tier and few of interest to me. With the news you don’t see the original layout of the paper and articles are not grouped as they would be in the paper’s own app. And then there are adverts! No way is this value for money.
 
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Immediately cancelled ATV+. Only thing we're keeping is Fitness and iCloud 2TB plan. Apple Music and Spotify are at parity so I'll use them instead.
 
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jonnysods said:
That's only if they don't increase it again in a year or two as well!
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That's what I meant. It $1,800 additional costs over 50 years just from this single price increase. If they increase the price another $2 in a year from now, that is another $1,176 extra for those remaining 49 years.
 
ericg301 said:
The difference is that most of us assumed that these Apple services were loss leaders for hardware purchases. Apple could afford to lose money, or make not as much money on them. Whereas Netflix’s entire business depends on a single product.
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It is not in Apple's character to offer something at a loss. This price increase just shows that Apple doesn't want to continue losing billions a year on TV+, not when content and production costs go up every year as streaming service providers race to build their content libraries with original content to grow or maintain their subscriber numbers and reduce churn.
 
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gatorvet96 said:
I only need the iCloud storage for family, Apple TV+ and Apple Music which is now $37. So basically news, arcade and fitness are free. So I guess I will stay.
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I just played with the selections in my subscription and found something similar. If I get rid of News+, Arcade and possibly Fitness+, I'm still paying more than if I kept the whole damn bundle.
 
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BeatCrazy said:
I have a family and I only use the 2TB storage, Apple Music for Family and AppleTV+. All of those add up to $37 with the new prices, conveniently(?) only $1 less than subscribing to the 'whole enchilada $37.95' plan. So for $1, I guess I'll pay for News.
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You could go Apple One Family and then just update to storage from 200GB to 2TB. That comes to $32.95. That is what I'm debating. Puts be back at the yesterday price and I just loss Fitness+ and News+ (which I rarely use).
 
Wish that I would have purchased more than the two TV+ annual subscriptions from Costco the last time the price increased.
 
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