Understandable. They’re barely scraping by as a company. Luckily there are no cost of living pressures on us all as consumers, so we’re happy to support excess profiteering.
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I’d be upset… except I don’t see any value to those services so I’m not subscribed in the first place.
Individually they're not that great but where I live family Apple One is priced barely above the price of 2 individual Apple Music subscriptions. You get some iCloud storage so that it is actually usable, then Apple TV+ which is pretty ok. Apple Arcade is the most underrated service ever - it unfucked mobile gaming by enforcing no IAPs.
enforcing no IAPs
What is IAPs here?
In app purchases. Apple Arcade games aren't allowed to include them.
That’s really incredible! I didn’t know they did that. I’m not a gamer so I’ve never paid much attention to Apple Arcade.
They have some unique exclusives. But some game decisions are very questionable at times due to the lacktherof of funding for development.
I think it’s rated just where it belongs. The only game I’ve played on it that didn’t feel like a lame mobile game was Slay the Spire.
Im already finding it a hard sell for my News+ sub. This price increase may just lead me to cancel at this point.
I really like news+ but I also ended up subscribing to Apple one premier because it was going to be the same price for iCloud + Apple Music for me and my wife separately.
Don’t know if I would subscribe to any of these services if they weren’t bundled with the two I actually use
Yeah I only use the Apple music, iCloud, and fitness parts of the subscription. At 30 I found that to be a good deal. Starting to get to the point where it’s not worth it, I hate late stage capitalism.
Sorry that I am too lazy to look it up myself, but what do you get with that subscription?
You get access to news from publishers like WSJ, Wired, LA Times, National Review, as well as magazines from many others. You also get access to news audio which is not bad.
Some of the sources I wanted to sub to but could never afford it are TIME magazine and The Atlantic.
WSJ I don't believe gives all it's articles to Apple. Could be wrong.
I wish the NYT was still in there, but they pulled out a while back.
I think The Guardian is in there though.
Thanks!
Wow. They had their finger on the trigger waiting for someone else to go first and Netflix obliged.
So happy that capitalism means the competition will drive down prices.
On the up side, Apple One price increases are minimal if you subscribe to more than one service, and it’s a better value now. This is Apple’s first price bump for these services ever
These services were always a bad deal on their own. The Apple One subscription is what I imagine most people use.
There was an increase in the Apple One subscription price last December.
AppleTV+ got a price increase a year ago, yesterday.
Apple bumped up Premier to 33 bucks up from 30 like a year ago.
A 40% rise in Apple TV+ in one year?? It was already on the ‘sub when a series finishes, watch and cancel’ list, but I’d been letting it slide since there were a few shows I was enjoying. This will put it back to just a couple of months a year.
Thanks for the heads up, I just canceled because I barely use TV+ anyway.
The only thing Apple Arcade even has is an exclusive Castlevania game. And as cool as it looks its not enough to justify the service.
The major strength of Apple Arcade is that even if those games are available on other platforms they're free of predatory monetization. You also get good amount of older and modern classics, from things like Cut the Rope to Slay the Spire.
I wouldn't pay for it on its own though.