I think Apple TV is definitely worth $3-5 a month. More than that, it’s definitely not worth it. To be honest, I have this feeling that Apple will someday sell it to Netflix or some other company because it’s costing them a lot.
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T-Mobile Won't Offer Free Apple TV Subscription Anymore
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Verizon ended the loyalty discounts, then applied new discounts at double the amount. Was getting $10/ line, now have $20/ line.
Just wait until they start raising prices by inflation and a percentage or dollars and cents - just like they do here in the UK (and other parts of the world too, I believe).
Guessing the new tagline is “T-Mobile - Get Less!”
Guessing the new tagline is “T-Mobile - Get Less!”
So many complains. Has anyone tried to read a book instead? Libraries are full of them. Can start with Plato’s Symposium, going with Francis Bacon, Marcuse, Tagore, Descartes and perhaps Shakespeare. Although I subscribe to Apple TV, the rest of the streaming are ****!! 40 minutes, sometimes, to select a movie, 10 minutes to turn off the tv
Shakespeare? Dear lord, reading that is like trying to wade through hip-high oatmeal!
(And I'm not particularly fond of being depressed by the end of a book - I've always wondered why Romeo & Juliette is so popular)My tastes run more from Verne and Wells to Asimov, Orwell (ok, 1984 IS depressing), Vonnegut, Tolkien, Gerrold, Eddings, Heinlein, Rosenberg, Feist, Drake, Weber (etc.) and, more recently, Weir, Corey and Tchaikovsky. There IS some older writings that I've liked (Lucian of Samosata, who had a particularly amusing tome, some to mind)
So, to answer your question - you can put me in the column of "Yes, I've read a book!"
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My wife and I have been getting Apple Music and Disney/Hulu free through Verizon for maybe 6ish years? Its the only reason we stay with Verizon. When the day comes that they stop giving that to us for "free" we are gone, and I mean gone ASAP. Their cellular service where we live isn't very good (and we live in a bigger city area in the US) so those free perks are the only reason we are still with them.
Yeah like I said earlier, the carrier merry-go-round. My question is will T-Mobile give those of us who drop Apple TV something else?
You really think TM pays Apple $12.99 per subscriber or you think TM made a deal with Apple to pay much less for Apple to get exposure to TM's user base?
It's guaranteed, I think, no?
MLB.TV inked deals with ESPN, Netflix & NBC, so I'd imagine their own streaming offerings are going to subsume any independent MLB TV offering of the past.
If T Mobile is doing this I wish they would allow it to be applied to an Apple One subscription.
Remember when streaming was going to make things cheaper? Now every single channel has streaming and if you subscribe to even half of them you're looking at $300 a month.
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Netflix standard = $17.99/mo
Disney+ with Hulu Premium = $19.99/mo
HBO Max standard = $18.49/mo
Apple TV and Peacock Premium Plus bundle = $19.99/mo
Paramount+ Premium = $12.99/mo
Total = $89.45/mo
Some offer annual subs which will bring down the average monthly price to under $80/mo
And all of the above subs have no ads.
NF is still free with ads with my Tmobile. I think I pay like $8 extra for no ads.
T-Mobile is still awesome. I pay $170 total for 5 lines unlimited everything + NF without ads.
That’s the only reason why I’m still with Verizon 6 years later as well. Once those perks are gone, I’m jumping ship to either T-Mobile or AT&T and use my work discount.
Your post inspired me to make a chart of features and costs of my current plan compared to other TM plans or their MVNO. I'm on the 55+ plan and get their 5G home internet for $30 after autopay as long as I have a TM line. If I switch to MVNO the increased price of internet would wipe out the savings, so I'll stay with TM, BUT I finally bumped down to a plan without extra features I don't need and will save hundreds of dollars per year.
Since I wasn't dropping a line, I was able to make the change myself in the app.
I'm also thinking an advantage of staying with TM vs MVNO is the ability to upgrade to a different plan or add-on if I needed it, traveling for example, and then be able to switch it back.
That’s a scary thought because as Tim Cook did Apple grew into a behemoth. I hope T-Mobile doesn’t swallow the competition.
What’s the innuendo behind this post? Not everything has to be ground breaking innovation."Innovation"
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I have four lines on T-Mobile plus an Apple Watch for $143/month under their Magenta Max plan. Got this text too about Apple TV price increase. Was pissed off for an hour which got me looking into alternatives. I’m glad I did because I found Visible (Verizon MVNO). Been using their service for the last few days as a free trial and it has been better than T-Mobile. Even with me buying equivalent Netflix with Ads and Apple TV+ plans, I’m going to save $39/month overall using their discount for the next 26 months, and for better service to boot. Thanks T-Mobile for making this happen!