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New Apple Services Could Include 'Podcasts+,' 'Stocks+,' and 'Mail+,' Analysts Predict
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A Weather+ app would actually be interesting. With their recent acquisition of DarkSky I could see them including things like radar imagery.
So would I. Really would like to rid myself of all things Google, but they do email better than anyone else.
I wish Apple’s services would be spun off into a different company. Apple is supposed to be a premium hardware company that differentiates itself. with custom software. Services are a very different business model. Apple becoming increasingly dependent on services will ruin the user experience as they try to bundle their services in with the OS instead of offering choice and competition. Hopefully the antitrust investigations against them stop them from doing anything too drastic. But even if they don’t force this, the “Apple tax” is supposed to prevent you from having to deal with bloatware and give you awesome, FREE services. I don’t like the direction they’re going in.
I'm not very curious how Apple is going to position "Apple One Premiere" over the years. Will we always pay $30 and benefit from additional services at no cost? Or do we go down market and Premiere Plus gets added at $40 with more stuff? we'll just have to wait and see.
Especially given the fact that these features have been free and valued for a decade. To take away software applications and then demand payment, it's no longer an Apple. It's a PC.
If they actually go ahead with this I swear i’ll get a Samsung. Can’t keep milking us like that.
Wow, I'm excited for "Clock+"....... sounds like hours of fun......
I would buy the crap out of Mail+, especially if it let me use some of the many domains I own, allowed for scheduling, snoozing, prioritizing, advanced templates, and did things like automatically sorting my mail by type. On device machine learning could also be useful to give me several options to automatically respond to emails and make it sound like my writing style by analyzing emails that I’ve sent before, based on the account I’m sending it from (more casual for iCloud, more professional for Exchange, etc).
I think instead of Stocks+ they should do Wallet+. Bake in a lot of features from Mint, but with a better UI and no ads, and then layer in things like the robo investor like Wealthfront with financial planning that uses machine learning to estimate when you’ll meet future goals and where you could make adjustments to save even more and let me set all kinds of custom alerts. I spend some time tweaking my budget and trying to figure out why exactly my credit card bill seemed higher one month and really low the next (I pay it off every month to earn cash back). It would be great to have a single integrated location for everything. Would also be neat if it included checking and savings accounts and also let your kids in your family open them and scan checks for deposit and include cool titanium debit cards. Would also be neat if it had a Roth IRA, options for life insurance, cryptocurrency, stocks, and tax preparation software and it could get a lot of the info automatically. I just want all my financial stuff in one place, lol, and I want it to be easy to manage and have on-device AI keeping an eye on things.
I think instead of Stocks+ they should do Wallet+. Bake in a lot of features from Mint, but with a better UI and no ads, and then layer in things like the robo investor like Wealthfront with financial planning that uses machine learning to estimate when you’ll meet future goals and where you could make adjustments to save even more and let me set all kinds of custom alerts. I spend some time tweaking my budget and trying to figure out why exactly my credit card bill seemed higher one month and really low the next (I pay it off every month to earn cash back). It would be great to have a single integrated location for everything. Would also be neat if it included checking and savings accounts and also let your kids in your family open them and scan checks for deposit and include cool titanium debit cards. Would also be neat if it had a Roth IRA, options for life insurance, cryptocurrency, stocks, and tax preparation software and it could get a lot of the info automatically. I just want all my financial stuff in one place, lol, and I want it to be easy to manage and have on-device AI keeping an eye on things.
Apple's bundle is completely unrational except for the Apple sheep. When a bundled services comes a long it should be with complementing services. For example Youtube gives you no ads video+audio.
Apple is giving News bundled with their own TV shows and iCloud storage. This is akin to getting a newspaper subscription, free car oil changes, and ballet classes.
Apple is giving News bundled with their own TV shows and iCloud storage. This is akin to getting a newspaper subscription, free car oil changes, and ballet classes.
The good thing with software is that we only need one to serve all of humanity, just like FireFox browser is good for everyone. Those companies that force subscription services on software, we can always come together as a community and support one project (again like Firefox), to fit our needs.
I like the sound of Mail+, as long as it is on par with proton mail and delivers at least 5 Gigs of storage. I would also like it if they based the service out of Switzerland, like proton mail.
Honestly, the services I would use are...
Mail
Apple TV+
Apple Music
iCloud Storage (at least 200 Gigs)
Apple Care for all my devices (one monthly payment)
If Apple had something like this for $20 a month, I would buy it. I don't need Stocks or News, as I prefer not to pay for such garbage.
Honestly, the services I would use are...
Apple TV+
Apple Music
iCloud Storage (at least 200 Gigs)
Apple Care for all my devices (one monthly payment)
If Apple had something like this for $20 a month, I would buy it. I don't need Stocks or News, as I prefer not to pay for such garbage.
Latency would an issue for anyone not in Europe, as would the issue of having a single point of failure for the whole system.
How many accounts? Custom domain or some standard one?
Are you a single user or in a family plan?
How many devices?
Assuming you are a single user with only 1 email account and one device, the unbundled price of what you are requesting is $28 (assuming no charge for mail). If you have the Family Plan for Apple Music, the unbundled price would go up to $32 (with one iPhone) or $42 (with two). In other words, you would be asking to get everything else free if you bought AppleCare+ for two iPhones. Does not seem like a reasonable price to me.
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Well Alan, Latency doesn't really seem to be too big of an issue with proton mail as that is in the same situation I described.
The number of email addresses is kind of irrelevant, I just want a decent amount of storage, because I tend not to delete items for more than a year at a time. So, it could be one, or it could be five for all I care.
Don't really need a family plan, most of the Apple devices in my home are mine.
Now as for your pricing model, not sure how you could even quantify that, as you cannot get a single apple care coverage plan that covers every single device. Crud, the phone alone is $12, and I have it for my tablet as well. Anyway, I said what I would pay for that, I might go a small bit higher, but at $30 a month I'm not on board with most of it.
If Apple bought exclusivity to Joe Rohan for Podcasts+ they would bring so many listeners over, but I’m sure Joe Rogan does not for Apples Cultural Business Model.