Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple News+ Receiving Price Increases
Apple today announced that it is increasing the prices of some of its subscription-based services, including Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple...
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.
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.
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.
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.
AppleTV+ got a price increase a year ago, yesterday.
Apple bumped up Premier to 33 bucks up from 30 like a year ago.
There was an increase in the Apple One subscription price last December.
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.