I don't use AppleMusic, TV+, and Arcade...I do pay $0.99/month for 50GB of storage....so I'm not going to pay $14.95 for the first tier for crap I don't care about or use when I'm only paying 99cents right now.
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New Apple One Subscription Bundle Offers Savings Up to $25 per Month
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Don't worry, this is just an optional bundle. It's Apple's way to get people who are already paying for a couple of services to tack on a couple of more if it makes sense for them.
You'll still be able to sign up/keep Apple Music only for $9.99, or anything else you might be interested in the future, at the current price.
If you're only using two services, you don't need a bundle.
Who doesn't?
This is just the first time a bundle was offered, that's why it's been discussed here for so long.
The family plan sounds fine for me. Right now I only have the free 5gb of storage, and that's plenty. I don't store photos on the cloud, and use a real camera for photography not a phone. Already am paying for the family music plan so for me this makes sense.
I am so confused and unsure of what bundle they could have possibly offered to pique your interest if you only care about 50gb of storage. I don't think you were their target audience. Or maybe you outsmarted them again.
A question I haven’t seen asked yet, is what will Apple offer to new iPhone buyers next month? We got AppleTV+ last year, which given the limited available titles, that wasn’t much of a gift for at least half the year. I’d take the $5 savings I would have to pay by going up to the Premier plan from my current Music and 2TB storage plan, to get TV+, News and Fitness, if they would do something like that for those services not currently being used.
I am so confused and unsure of what bundle they could have possibly offered to pique your interest if you only care about 50gb of storage. I don't think you were their target audience. Or maybe you outsmarted them again.
Well maybe their target audience are all the Applefanbois on this site and not the average consumer.
If you currently make use of 1 service, and have no interest in any others, then why are you even looking at bundles?
Well they are giving 3 months of Apple Fitness+ for new Apple Watch purchases. The details for Apple TV+ word it so that it's just a once-per-account thing, so it won't be that again. I guess we'll find out next month!
Lol ok.. but you were compelled to tell us all how you're not going to pay $14.95 for the first tier crap you don't care about or use.
There is a note by Apple in the details that you can pay extra for more storage options in the different plans. I'll admit it would be nice to build your own package.
From what I read you can do either. Each person can have their own bucket, or the primary user can just get 200G or 1T and share it.
I also have the student rate on Apple Music ($4.99). I strong suspect they’ll announce an educational tier. If not, as you say, it may be better for students to go a la carte, and just get the services they want.
The bundles are rather disappointing. If you’re not a ‘family’, there’s no good option.
If you want more than 200GB storage your only bundle option is the premium and you’re probably getting services you don’t want. Maybe a pick’n’mix option would have been better!
If you want more than 200GB storage your only bundle option is the premium and you’re probably getting services you don’t want. Maybe a pick’n’mix option would have been better!
I'd be all over the family plan if you gave me 2020 amounts of data...200 GB...come on. You have been forcing us to the cloud with icloud photo library, messages in the cloud etc that my wife and I alone can't stick under 200 GB...let alone if we had kids on the network.
So I'm already in for family apple music, 2TB cloud, apple TV+ and apple news+ (my wife insists on this for some reason, she likes the magazine subs). So as I figure it, I am in for $40/month already. The $29.99/month saves me $10 and I get apple arcade and fitness for free essentially. Sign me up. (Edit, 4 people in the family and I'm over 200gb of iCloud)
Apple today unveiled several long-awaited "Apple One" service bundles that allow you to subscribe to multiple Apple services for a single monthly fee, saving you some money compared to purchasing each service individually.
There are three Apple One tiers, which include the following services:
The Individual plan saves customers $6 compared to purchasing each service separately, while the Family plan offers $8 per month savings. The highest-tier Premier plan saves customers $25 per month and includes the greatest number of services.
- Individual ($14.95 per month) - Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and 50GB iCloud storage.
- Family ($19.95 per month, shared with six family members) - Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and 200GB iCloud storage.
- Premier ($29.95 per month, shared with six family members) - Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, 2TB iCloud storage, Apple News+, and Apple Fitness+.
The Premier plan is the only plan that offers access to Apple Fitness+, Apple's new fitness-based video lesson service that is set to launch in late 2020.
Fitness+ offers workouts that can be watched on an iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV, with fitness-related data collected by the Apple Watch.
Customers who purchase one of Apple's subscription bundles are able to add additional iCloud storage if necessary according to the fine print on the Apple One website.
Apple One bundles will be available later this fall, and one-month free trials will be available for services that you haven't already tried. Fitness+ will be launching later this year.
Article Link: New Apple One Subscription Bundle Offers Savings Up to $25 per Month
iTunes Match is never mentioned among Apple's subscription services. It's kind of a poor stepchild. Why it isn't wrapped into iCloud makes no sense to me, except that then they couldn't charge separately for the service.
Perhaps in time. Seems like a no brainer to lock more people in to subscriptions.
