Ok, so that’s not sufficient to interpret. At least once a month, for how many months in a row? How much content duration needs to be watched to qualify as viewing content?
Not the same thing. The vast majority of these apps are content providers. Paying for a subscription to access licensed content is completely different than paying a subscription to unlock a journaling app or local password locker.
Counterpoint, I subscribe to a number of streaming apps, several of them through the App Store, and I never watch them on personal devices (if by that you mean phone/tablet). I watch on Apple TV, but I find subscribing via Apple's IAP better for some services, because you get the ability to discontinue at any time by just clicking a button in the Settings app, rather than having to go through some (occasionally hard to find) web form on the streaming service's website.
Your other questions are perceptive, but I'd bet that the vast majority of people who have a gmail account, have one gmail account. They aren't all techies like the crowd that gathers here.
And yet that's still kind of a technicality (or, rather, maybe Google One should be removed from a variant of the scores) - iCloud and Google One are offering largely the same kind of thing on competing platforms, they're just billing via a different avenue.
There are a few programs that I'm quite happy to pay a subscription for, while there are a bunch of others where I'd be happy to pay $15 or whatever when they release a new major version, but they're not worth $5/mo to me, so I've walked away from them.
Wait, who is putting a gun to your head and extorting you to watch TV? I pay for some streaming services, because I've chosen to do so for entertainment purposes. Nobody threatened or extorted me to make me watch. If the prices were more than I was willing to pay, then I wouldn't pay, I'd just do something else with my time instead. It's not like TV is a vital necessity for survival.
I don't disagree that the MR forum isn't a representative sample of normal usage. However, given how many schools and organizations distribute Gmail accounts, I can't imagine the average number of Gmail users with multiple Gmail accounts round down to 0.
I mentioned that.
But it should be small in comparison. Are you saying the size of the ratio is unexpected?
What it shows is that people are willing to pay the so called “Apple Tax” to subscribe from within the App Store. Google passes on Apple’s “30/15% commission” to the end user and they’re still willing to pay it rather than going to the web and paying less. That’s how important Apple’s ease of use, single source of payment details and subscription management service is to Apple users. Android users just don’t understand this.
You’re missing the point that iOS users to the YouTube platform is a smaller amount in comparison to global Android users. The amount that subscribe from within the app is likely even smaller but it still shows up in the top ten paid Apps in the Apple App Store. When Google passes on the 30/15% tax to iOS users, and they choose to pay it rather than going to the web to subscribe, you can see why developers want to use 3rd party payments within the app (to reduce friction). What they fundamentally misunderstand is that Apple users actually prefer to have their credit card details held with only Apple, like the ability to manage subscriptions from a central location and have Apple manage support….it’s just an overall better experience that will not be replicated by a developer handling this on their own.
Oh, yeah, no. Most people aren't and will not pay for content with money. That's not a condition of YT but a general behavior. If you can pay with something besides money then people will try to do that.
I subscribe to YouTube premium. I watch almost exclusively on my Apple TV. I realized at some point that (1) ads are annoying (well, I realized that many decades ago), and (2) sometimes I watch more YouTube than Disney+ or HBO (AT&T provides HBO "for free" with my fiber connection). Having ad-free streaming available but then watching YouTube with ads was annoying, but it turned out it was a problem I could make go away for $10ish a month. That was worth it to me.
