Apple

Apple Music Student is $5.99 and it includes Apple TV+ for free.

I have apple One Premier and even that is getting increased. It’s literally almost $40, and you would think at that price you’d get more then just 2TB of shared family storage but no, I have to pay an additional $10 for an extra TWO terabytes to support my iCloud family of 6… almost $50! Ridiculous

Considering they do not have a real back catalogue of content to offer up or are paying licenses to have other content. $9.99 US I take it? (Which will be more in other countries like AU when/if it happens) will make it not worth it.

That is the key factor.

But they are doing it because everyone else is doing it. 1 - 2 hike prices people complain, drop, makes the news but after that dust settles the other similar services see the market and rivals and follow the course.

The other thing to understand now with the streaming services:

- Where their model is movie/show licensing - They do that, get what they can, pay so that passes over to customers
- Producing own shows
- Producing own movies

The next steps are:

- Online / streaming games:
Netflix is dabbing it's feet in this water and seeing what works and does not work with its mobile games, the interactive shows etc. I do not see this developing much for some time.

- Sport streaming / Live streaming:

With the old guard holding rights to sports big money is needed in developing what a streaming service needs to do to make these work and obtain those licenses.
Apple for example is rumoured to have talks with F1 and obtaining that. F1 itself was looking to do it's own but they may have found it too much. People have told Netflix this is what they should work on

Disney is doing things like the NFL and the kids versions etc.

Amazon Prime has a strange thing for live sports, Again they are clearly testing the waters.

Plex has increasing home grown sports stuff popping into it's service.

Local club sports in countries like New Zealand for Rugby as an example are increasingly streaming to Youtube.

Pretty poorly done that I didn’t even get an email about it in Belgium…

No no no I will not accept this, it started with 4,99 and now it’s 10$ I gave my money to keyoclock they’ve got Apple TV, HBO, Hulu everything even box offices movies for god’s sales for same price as Apple TV.

Not worth it.

I have the family one pack, and I need 3 of the services and when I want to cancel any it works out more individually so I’m in a damn if I do situation

I don't blame you. They just raised prices around this time last year and now they're doing it again.

After that ABOMINATION Foundation? Phaa…

Well done, good to know, thanks for telling us all.

Same. Cancelled Premier and dropped back to ala carte for the only services i actually use (storage and TV).

I wish they would have some proper content there.

Hell no

They give it for free for students when purchasing Apple Music, so I’m good. lol

I canceled when it went from $4.99 to $6.99. Not enough content to pay the extra two dollars. Now that it’s $9.99, I can’t see AppleTV+ surviving.

You know what’s free? Over the air programming with an antenna, which is what I use now instead of any streaming service. It’s helped me cut back the time I spend in front of the TV and I don’t feel like I’m missing anything.

I cancelled as well. I have 28 days left to binge but I don't binge.

The annual, discounted rate went up $30 a year. I'd gladly pay the higher rates for Apple Music because I use it morning noon and night - I couldn't consume that much tv every day, my Apple Watch would be screaming at me!

I looked into Apple One. I'd be interested in a combination of storage, music and news but that's not available until the highest category.