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Bloomberg: Apple Considering Bundling Apple Music, TV+, and News+ as Early as 2020
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Well that’s why the cable companies do it. Combine your unpopular products with your popular ones.
Nope this is like a greatest hits CD. It's the Rolling Stones but can't get no satisfaction but you get what you need. It seems like a good way to dump news on people and get "value" out of another wise useless subscription.
They may be included - they wouldn’t have to tell content producers about that since it wouldn’t affect what any are being paid
Unfortunately, the services are Tim's vision of the future and it appears he's putting the full force of the company behind it.
as I am subscribed to all of them.. I would hope it would save me money as well.... it should be 9.99 for long time apple users...
whats more credible than the news sources them selves... all of my local news channels are on Facebook
TV+ with AppleCare is a good idea. I think we’ll see TV+ given away with almost any Apple purchase over $50, just so they can claim they have more subscribers.
TV+, Music & Arcade in the $14.99 (single use) or $19.99 (family) price range and you’ll see a lot of adopters.
I still can’t find of a compelling bread in to News*. The free version suits my News needs just fine.
That said, I’m much more interested in them seriously addressing their iCloud offering.
I still can’t find of a compelling bread in to News*. The free version suits my News needs just fine.
That said, I’m much more interested in them seriously addressing their iCloud offering.
I think the reason Apple doesn't bundle those (yet) is because they don't have to.
Wait until Apple hits a slump with iPhone sales, and then they'll act like they invented bundling services.
I feel like Apple's shift to services is still half-baked. The content might be good, but the apps and experience is not there yet. I don't get News here in Argentina, so I can only judge Music (which has a pretty good catalog), Arcade (getting better every week) and TV+ (I've a free year so I'll take advantage of it, but the current offerings are not enough for me to subscribe).
You’re assuming there is an unpopular product here.
Disney is off to a good start but no one knows yet how many of those 10 million will "stick" after the FREE 7 day trial.
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What are you doing? Seeing how many idiots there are?
I’m all for the bundle idea. Add Arcade and iCloud storage. Make a family bundle and above all charge a reasonable price.
right now I have no interest in any Apple service due the cost. But if it is a good deal, I would consider for the whole family.
there are just too many services out there and too much free content too.
right now I have no interest in any Apple service due the cost. But if it is a good deal, I would consider for the whole family.
there are just too many services out there and too much free content too.
They aren't feeling any heat at all. Streaming video services are not an either/or proposition. You don't think apple knew they'd come in as the underdog? A company with no content of their own has to build content from the ground up. This is very expensive and takes many years. Other content producers have decades of content at launch. Apple knows they're going to take a loss on ATV+ for years. They may never recoup their costs. They plan for that. It doesn't have to be a successful stand alone service. They use it to bring people in to the apple ecosystem. It's just one piece to help drive sales in other areas for them.
Now if this was a music service where every company has all the same songs, yes, they'd have to find innovative ways to compete. It's all the same content. You most likely wouldn't subscribe to multiple music services. There's no need.
With a video service all content for each provider is unique. Especially as they pull back from Netflix, amazon and hulu and directly sell their own content. You don't have to pick only one service.
You pick the ones that offer the content you want to see. Maybe you keep the subscription ongoing. Maybe you subscribe, watch what you want and quit. They don't have to have a ton of content as we can only watch so much tv. They just need to have just enough to keep you going. 10 hours of content from one service per month may be enough if that's all the time you have. What ATV+ has now and what's in the lineup for the coming months is all I need as with all the other TV I have it's all I have time for.
The only thing Disney+ gives me is the mandalorian and that first episode was disappointing. But I find most first episodes of shows usually are. I already own or have seen everything else they currently offer(that I have an interest in). I'll likely wait for original series to be fully released, subscribe, binge, cancel. Repeat. I really only have so much time for tv so it doesn't matter who has the most content.
Quality over quantity. Of course we all define quality differently. Isn't it great we have choices?
And all the streaming services have available discounts or bundles to get them for free.
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Well enough. Apple doesn't have to produce any content for this. Just provide distribution and let the money roll in. They're making a profit either way.
The biggest issue is there are other similar services that for the same money offer significantly more magazines.
I prefer getting my news from social media, but from a carefully groomed list of reporters and credible publications. Not from Uncle Joe, who posts from blog sites that say the world might be flat.