Apple just announced a price hike for its popular Apple Arcade service effective immediately, and it's proportionally a rather sizable increase.

This apparently also applies to Apple TV, Apple News and the Apple One bundles.

  • thefishhou@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    $10/month for Apple TV is pretty steep for the most limited and smallest catalog streaming service.

  • Poolofcheddar@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Honestly I’m tempted to just bump down from Apple One Premier all the way to just iCloud+.

    Everything else has been rising. The raise I got earlier this year has been eaten up and then some.

    • thefishhou@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s getting to the point where it’s best to rotate one streaming service at a time rather than subscribe to multiple. Catch up on Netflix for a couple months, cancel and go to Max, etc.

  • Kimantha_Allerdings@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Doesn’t affect me. I got Apple TV free with my iPad and couldn’t be arsed to keep subscribing. The hit rate is high with their shows, but it’s not worth the money.

    I can’t even say that for Arcade. I tried it and hardly any of the (surprisingly few) games were actually any good. And the best game - Manifold Garden - has an absolutely awful control scheme on the iPad.

  • conhound@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Apple One basic individual plan is $20/month now and premier is $38. Kinda crazy at this point.

  • truthfulie@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I tolerated it as it was part of One bundle for the family. Maybe it’s time to go for piece meal with this price increase. Apple Music family is really only thing that we truly use it all the time.

  • ShakaSalsa@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I get it free through Verizon but tbh, the price is still affordable for what you get however price increases are unfortunate, especially when it’s not directly related, and they increase their whole line.