Apple Raises Prices on Apple Music, Apple TV Plus, and Apple One (theverge.com) 32
Apple is increasing the prices across its services, including Apple Music, Apple TV Plus, and its overarching Apple One subscription, according to a report. This marks the first time the company has raised the prices of these services in the US. From a report: Here's a breakdown of the new pricing: Apple Music for individuals will increase by $1 a month to $10.99, or by $10 for the annual plan, which will now cost $109 a year. Apple Music for families is going up by $2 a month to $16.99. Apple TV is going up by $2 a month to $6.99 or $20 annually to $69.
Inversion (Score:5, Funny)
Due to inflation, the cost of making music has increased, therefore music that was made before inflation costs more.
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More than half of the recent "inflation" is just price gouging [12news.com].
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More than half of the recent "inflation" is just price gouging [12news.com].
Yup, and the same people whining about that inflation will claim it's somehow President Biden's fault he's not interfering with the free markets and regulating prices.
Mind you, this is the same group of people who will say businesses can't raise wages because it will lead to inflation.
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He campaigned on the platform of curbing domestic oil and gas development. On the first day in office, he signed orders reversing the previous administrations policies.
False. He only cancelled drilling on public lands (i.e. government owned). In fact, one of the cancelled leases showed no interest by private industry. Meanwhile, over 9,000 drilling permits lay unused by oil companies. That is not his fault the companies aren't drilling. With low interest rates (at the time) those companies could have bee
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Well then, good to know the next time a Republican takes the office they are fully responsible for anything which goes wrong with the economny. So nice to see that small government in action.
An they will be. If Trump, Regan, or even Teddy was sitting in the chair during this time, it would be 100% their fault.
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That is because it is Bidens fault. He campaigned on the platform of curbing domestic oil and gas development. On the first day in office, he signed orders reversing the previous administrations policies. This has lead to a energy prices skyrocketing. The bases of all current economies are the cost of energy. Then he and the democrats dumped trillions of dollars in to the economy. This, despite being told this would also lead to runaway inflation. An that is exactly what has happened. He may not have intended it to turn out like it did, but his signature is on the bills and actions that caused it. So yes, this is 100% Bidens fault.
I'm going to go ahead and repost this. The truth needs to be heard and just because you don't like it doesn't change the fact that it's the truth.
Re: Inversion (Score:2)
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Due to inflation, the cost of making music has increased, therefore music that was made before inflation costs more.
You don't understand. Middle managing rent-seekers skimming profits are people too. Won't someone think of the useless people in the industry, their children are going to starve!
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We have a nice vicious cycle here. Inflation happens, which gets the Fed to jack up interest rates. Which causes people to cut services. Companies jack up rates to compensate, show they are having record profits, and the Fed jacks up interest rates some more.
Part of this is because subscription services are very inelastic. People are not going to give up their vehicle subscription for the heated seats of remote unlock carfob very easily. Businesses will continue to buy from Microsoft even if M365 goes
music more costly than tv? (Score:2)
Re:music more costly than tv? (Score:4, Informative)
Probably because Apple has to license the music from other music producers like Sony. Apple TV is mostly their own content. I'm sure that it was expensive to produce, but it's mostly a one-time production charge.
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2) Usage (almost unlimited music library, the Apple TV library is pretty small, certainly much smaller than Netflix or Disney+)
Quantity? (Score:1)
Am I the only one who finds it interesting that apple music costs a LOT more than apple tv?
As the other response noted it's a lot about Apple having to pay licensing fees...
But also in terms of value, if you think about it Apple Music is giving you access to a really large amount of content compared to AppleTV.
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Apple TV just has shows produced by Apple, some are really good but they do not have content from anyone else so they don't have a bigger range of stuff to watch like Hulu or Netflix do. Apple Music is a lot more generally useful da to day.
Great News For Apple Fans (Score:2)
Value proposition missing (Score:5, Interesting)
We don't watch much of Apple TV (re-running Ted Lasso now being the exception), but its low price made it something that it wasn't a big deal to keep the subscription. With the increase I won't be renewing when it is up in the spring. AppleMusic was always just way too expensive for me to justify.
Where I live, Prime is worthless for shipping, and the music and TV offerings are likewise limited, so that might get the axe as well.
None of this really effects my budget in a meaningful way, but wasting money is wasting money.
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AppleMusic was always just way too expensive for me to justify.
This is actually a quite interesting comment given the state of the industry. Apple do offer a lot for little. Their pricing is the same as Spotify's, but for it you get quite a bit more (in terms of Hifi / Spatial music). You don't get much more in terms of streaming, sure Apple is integrated in Apple devices, but Spotify Connect is far more common.
The reason I find it interesting is because Spotify (according to a recent leak) is about to expand their offering to include things that Apple do, including be
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Spacial music, I just don't get. I listen in stereo. I remember seeking out the quad version of DSoTM a long time back. When I finally found it, it was ok, but I preferred the stereo version. I keep
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As a matter of interest, when you dropped Spotify due to compression were you able to hear compression artefacts or did you have some expectation bias creep in (note this happens to everyone). Spotify's free tier sounds horrible, but for Spotify Premium ... well try and test yourself when you have some time to see if that is at all relevant. http://abx.digitalfeed.net/spo... [digitalfeed.net]
But as to the high res stuff, it's all marketing... now. It solved a very real problem in the early 90s largely due to aliasing and rec
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Re:Value proposition missing (Score:5, Informative)
The sad part is Apple TV does have some nice programs on it. For All Mankind being one example. Fortunately, there are other ways to get good content.
Fruit is more expensive. (Score:2)
So of course they need to raise their prices!