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One Year Free Apple TV+ Per Customer?

Spudlicious

Spudlicious

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Nov 21, 2015
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If this question has been answered here before then I apologise.

In January this year I bought a new iPhone so qualified for the TV+ one year free offer. Haven’t found a single thing to watch, but there you go.
Now I’m thinking of a buying new iPad, so will I start a new free year of nothing to watch? I’m assuming it’s one offer per user ID and I certainly wouldn’t go to the faff of creation a new one for that purpose, I’d just like know.

As an aside, are Apple serious? A streaming service with almost nothing included? Have they seen Prime/Netflix/HBO?
 
I was shocked when I got the offer for 12 months free. I've been binging The Morning Show, and it's good but is that series along going to make me renew? No, and there's not a whole lot else going on with Apple TV+ atm so I'm not sure what their end game is.
 
Spudlicious said:
In January this year I bought a new iPhone so qualified for the TV+ one year free offer. Haven’t found a single thing to watch, but there you go.
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I bought my iPhone SE on 17th April and I’m acutely aware that I have until tomorrow to take up the Apple TV+ free trial, but I haven’t done so.

It’s free, so why haven’t I?

I see nothing on offer that I want to watch that I couldn’t watch elsewhere. And I don’t relish the idea of having to watch it on my devices rather than my TV (as I currently have no practical means of watching Apple TV+ on my TV).

I did consider taking up the offer anyway, in case something changes over the next year, but I just came to the conclusion that it just wasn’t worth it.

I’m maybe guessing that, if I don’t take it up, then when I buy a new product next year there may be a similar free year offer and there will be something that entices me to go for it. If there isn't, then it's not going to bother me.

As yet, I see no compelling reason to sign up. Even though it’s free. It's not often I turn down a freebie.
 
JSRinUK said:
I bought my iPhone SE on 17th April and I’m acutely aware that I have until tomorrow to take up the Apple TV+ free trial, but I haven’t done so.

It’s free, so why haven’t I?

I see nothing on offer that I want to watch that I couldn’t watch elsewhere. And I don’t relish the idea of having to watch it on my devices rather than my TV (as I currently have no practical means of watching Apple TV+ on my TV).

I did consider taking up the offer anyway, in case something changes over the next year, but I just came to the conclusion that it just wasn’t worth it.

I’m maybe guessing that, if I don’t take it up, then when I buy a new product next year there may be a similar free year offer and there will be something that entices me to go for it. If there isn't, then it's not going to bother me.

As yet, I see no compelling reason to sign up. Even though it’s free. It's not often I turn down a freebie.
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You may as well sign as not sign, nothing to lose, and they might just have a film you want see. I too scorn watching media on a mobile device, but I loaded the Apple TV app onto my Amazon Fire Stick and that seems to work well. There zero chance I'll take a paid subscription because I'm not a big TV watcher and there's too little new material spread too thinly over too many streaming services.
 
Spudlicious said:
You may as well sign as not sign, nothing to lose, and they might just have a film you want see. I too scorn watching media on a mobile device, but I loaded the Apple TV app onto my Amazon Fire Stick and that seems to work well. There zero chance I'll take a paid subscription because I'm not a big TV watcher and there's too little new material spread too thinly over too many streaming services.
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My thinking was that if this is a "one per person/family/ID offer" then, once I've taken it, that's it. But, if I don't take up the offer now then, if I buy a new device next year, I may be offered a free year once again.

At that point, it may well be worth going for.

If it doesn't work out that way, well I've not really lost anything.
 
Spudlicious said:
If this question has been answered here before then I apologise.

In January this year I bought a new iPhone so qualified for the TV+ one year free offer. Haven’t found a single thing to watch, but there you go.
Now I’m thinking of a buying new iPad, so will I start a new free year of nothing to watch? I’m assuming it’s one offer per user ID and I certainly wouldn’t go to the faff of creation a new one for that purpose, I’d just like know.

As an aside, are Apple serious? A streaming service with almost nothing included? Have they seen Prime/Netflix/HBO?
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Almost nothing included? I’ve watched at least 10 things, if not more, and I haven’t even watched everything there is.
 
I totally agree, there's a lot of good content. Of course, production has stopped because of the pandemic, but I'm looking forward to more good things in time.
 
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