• Humanbiscuit@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      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.

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    Im already finding it a hard sell for my News+ sub. This price increase may just lead me to cancel at this point.

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      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

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      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.

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      Sorry that I am too lazy to look it up myself, but what do you get with that subscription?

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        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.

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          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.

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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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    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.

    • misk@sopuli.xyzOP
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      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.