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iPhone 11 Pro How many subscriptions do you have monthly
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Netflix
Hulu
Apple Music
iCloud
Starz (there’s a few series I liked)
Amazon Prime yearly
Boomerang yearly
Apple Match yearly
I don’t watch Netflix all that much but other family members do. I may drop that down another tier.
Edit to add Quicken for Mac. But I don’t know if I’d consider that. It’s a yearly “subscription” but you can still use the software if you don’t pay, just no downloads. That’s how financial software used to be except you have to go to Walmart and buy the next version.
Hulu
Apple Music
iCloud
Starz (there’s a few series I liked)
Amazon Prime yearly
Boomerang yearly
Apple Match yearly
I don’t watch Netflix all that much but other family members do. I may drop that down another tier.
Edit to add Quicken for Mac. But I don’t know if I’d consider that. It’s a yearly “subscription” but you can still use the software if you don’t pay, just no downloads. That’s how financial software used to be except you have to go to Walmart and buy the next version.
I have 3. I pay for iCloud storage and Spotify. My company pays for Photoshop CC. I refuse all software subscription. I'm making the money-grabbing, check-sashing, lazy developers to earn my money. I will decide what to upgrade and when. They can pound sand.
Every 6 months or so I sign up for a free Netflix trial, binge watch, then cancel before the trial ends. Just my way of paying the money-grabbers back. I see it as a zero-sum-game.
iCloud and 1Password (yearly).
You won’t ever catch me subscribing to a music service or tv service as they cost far too much. Their model also means once you stop paying you lose access to everything. I believe you should get to keep any content you listen to or watch forever, even if you stop paying.
Content is something you should own not rent.
You won’t ever catch me subscribing to a music service or tv service as they cost far too much. Their model also means once you stop paying you lose access to everything. I believe you should get to keep any content you listen to or watch forever, even if you stop paying.
Content is something you should own not rent.
All the stuff in Dropbox can be accessed by my wife on her devices. If it was in iCloud she couldn’t see it. We have a lot of docs we both need full access to. Also use Dropbox to share some docs with wider family, not possible with iCloud.
I have iCloud storage because I have an iCloud photos library for my notebook and record type photos, plus Mail and iCloud backups. Also the iCloud storage is family shared with wife. Might be able to squeeze this down to the 50GB band and save half a cup of coffee per month.
Our joint main photos library is the Lightroom library (cloudy version) which is fully accessible to both of us on all devices.
Maybe one day Apple will get their sharing act together and match the capabilities of Dropbox and Lightroom for sharing docs and photos between people on different Apple IDs.
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Ios13 adds support for folder sharing so you could set up one master folder for your wife and share everything there. I was planning to do that, but I lucked out with free 60gb in Dropbox for life.
Apple Music, The Guardian Premium Subscription, The New York Times and that's pretty much it.
I used to have Netflix, Amazon Prime and the 200 GB iCloud plan for working with my DSLR pictures across devices, but since I got an external USB-C SSD I was able to revert back to the 5 GB free plan.
I tried to do away with Apple Music but having to buy and rip CDs, then sync to the iPhone or to memory cards was too much money- and time-consuming. In the end, I think it's good value. Superbly integrated with my devices, too.
I used to have Netflix, Amazon Prime and the 200 GB iCloud plan for working with my DSLR pictures across devices, but since I got an external USB-C SSD I was able to revert back to the 5 GB free plan.
I tried to do away with Apple Music but having to buy and rip CDs, then sync to the iPhone or to memory cards was too much money- and time-consuming. In the end, I think it's good value. Superbly integrated with my devices, too.
Currently just Apple Music. I use to torrent music, but checking charts, downloading, renaming file names and going through picking the couple songs I like got tiring. Now I just listen to curated playlists.
Once I change up my computing setup will have iCloud storage, Animelab, Disney+.
Once I change up my computing setup will have iCloud storage, Animelab, Disney+.
Get a second bank account that your subscriptions go from, put in the total annual cost of each subscription.
Every year put in the total cost.
It's like an annual payment then.
I save up monthly for certain expenses and then pay them off as they arise (e.g. car insurance). This is the opposite.
I too dislike the subscription model, but I understand it for things like Netflix. Google Drive / Office etc I pay for annually as you get that option.
Apple Music - In a family plan so don’t have to pay for music
YouTube Premium - £6.99 a month
iCloud Storage - £2.49 a month for 200gb for my whole family
Netflix - £8.99 a month
Disney+ - preorder offer 1 year for £50 but will be cancelling
Apple TV+ - free untill November
Amazon Prime - £39 a year
YouTube Premium - £6.99 a month
iCloud Storage - £2.49 a month for 200gb for my whole family
Netflix - £8.99 a month
Disney+ - preorder offer 1 year for £50 but will be cancelling
Apple TV+ - free untill November
Amazon Prime - £39 a year