Good insight. Yeah, that makes sense - there are clearly some devices that make more sense to get AC1 on, and those devices that don't. And it's dumb for Apple to force you to pay the outrageous +1 device price for the cheaper items.
I may be one of the few target demo users, with lots of Apple devices (many of which I currently have AC on a monthly plan), who's chosen not to go AC1. Even though it would save me a few $ per month. For me, what made the difference:
- My iPhone 15PM and 11" M4 iPP are both on the AC+ plans without theft and loss coverage. So it's cheaper ($9.99 vs $13.99 for iPhone and $7.99 vs $9.99 for my iPP). I don't really need t&l coverage, and wouldn't pay more for it. One of the consequences of AC1 rollout is that you can *only* get the standalone AC+ coverage now with theft and loss. At the higher price. You can't get it without t&l coverage anymore (but I'm grandfathered in for now)
- I've historically not kept AC+ indefinitely on my devices. I like having it for the first year or two when I get a device, and so I like the option to drop a device when I want - and not always all-at-once, sometimes I'll have less devices that have AC at a given time
- Not being able to go back to individual AC+.... if you switch to AC1. That means once you start, you really have to keep it for long-term / through upgrade cycles, or be ok to lose AC on all of your devices at once. I think that's the type of user that maximizes the most value here.
