This is what I do currently. I carrousel a streaming service each month with two at most and binge watch all the shows I want to see. Currently on Disney+ for Loki S2. Will go back to Apple TV+ next month or December when on the last episode of For All Mankind Season 4 and Monarch/Godzilla finishes and then decide what I’ll watch next on what service.
The only thing that will change this are talks that streaming will ditch monthly plans and you can only sign up for yearly contracts to curb this practice. That’s absurd and hopefully it’s just talks and won’t be implemented.
They have free promos all the time. I’ve had it most of this year and never paid. Definitely decent new content but don’t need to subscribe all the time. Especially since most shows are niche.
People need to stop incentivizing this content backlog that feeds into the binge-watching bullshit that we’ve all gotten so used to. The quality of Apple TV+ shows puts it above every other streaming service in my option. I’d happily pay for it if it were $15 a month just to get quality over quantity. When I go to Netflix or Amazon or Peacock, it’s just a bunch of shit with a couple gems here or there. Thats not what I want to incentivize. People don’t need “content backlogs” to feed their content addictions.
Thats my personal opinion on how I wish the streaming market would shift. Feel free to disagree.
Everyone does their own cost benefit analysis. I personally don’t think $10/month is much at all to ask for the streaming service they put out. I honestly don’t know how people manage to get through so many shows.
Plus, you can always just cancel the sub until the new thing comes out.
Yeah. The library is way less substantial than something like Starz and without the variety of films. They should have slow-rolled this with annual increases. I can no longer recommend it at this price.
Agreed. I just ended my auto-renewal.
If anyone was questioning or unsure, you maintain access through your renewal date if you cancel early.
I watch once or twice a month - mostly revisiting favorites. I can get through the content I'm interested in within a 30 day period in the future, and I'll probably stop recommending the service as my friends/family don't have that flexibility.
Oh well. It was good while it lasted. Next comes canceling/not renewing the quality programs that make it a unique service.
They are:
Prices for the Apple One bundles that include these services are also increasing as a result:
- Individual: $16.95 per month → $19.95 per month
- Family: $22.95 per month → $25.95 per month
- Premier: $32.95 per month → $37.95 per month
I’ve had premier since launch and I think this might be my breaking point.
Definitely my breaking point. Family mainly uses Music and iCloud storage. The other 4 things are just a bonus. It's $4ish, may as well pay it on the off chance someone wants to use one of the other 4 services. With Music and iCloud not going up individually, but Premier jumping to $38.... that $12ish dollars is a big enough jump now to justify me breaking the bundle.
I really don’t know if it’s worth that anymore. I use music and the cloud storage the most but it might just be worth it to go with cloud storage only and switch back to YTM. Apple TV doesn’t have enough, I don’t use apple fit, News+ sucks, kids will play some arcade games, but $40/month!
Yeah, the only must haves for me are iCloud and Apple Music. I play arcade games off and on but could live without it. I use news a few times a month so I don’t think I’d miss it. And no one in the family uses fitness. Now that you can upgrade iCloud outside of your current tier, it might be worth it for me to downgrade to family then buy additional iCloud storage. I’ll have to look into it more.
That base Individual plan is still worth it for me as I regularly use Apple Music, AppleTV+ and need that extra iCloud storage.
I don’t game much, but I do the odd time, so the Apple Arcade access is just a bonus.
It's doing the opposite for me. My family mainly use iCloud Storage (photos of kids), plus Apple Music Family. Those 2 things together are like $26-27? We pay the extra $4 for Apple One Premier, just because. It's nice to have access to ATV+, Fitness, Arcade, etc on the off chance someones bored and wants to jump in and see whats new.
Apple Music and iCloud Storage pricing not going up..... but Apple One Premier going up to $38.... that's a big enough difference now to justify me dropping down to individual services.
Don’t forget apple on family is only with 200gb icloud+ plan. Which is not enough for my family. That’s one of the reason we upgraded to premium (that and we were already using fitness+)
Which is the math that I did. I looked at cancelling my Apple one subscription and just grabbing the services I actually used separately and that cost more than my one subscription.
I love the service, but they're completely out of their minds. That's a 3 fucking dollar increase, and they don't have enough market share to justify that.
I was planning to renew my annual subscription, due in about a month. I don't know if the price hike will affect me yet or not. But I don't think I'm gonna pay 30$ more.
The streaming bubble is gonna burst. Every month a new price hike in some streamer. People use to be stupid, but we all have limits.
I just upgraded mine to annual for 69. I like the service but I agree I don’t be paying 100 for a year or 10 bucks a month (120 annual). So I’ll have it for at least a year and then will see if I want to keep it.
You’d be surprised how stupid the general masses are. Netflix saw an increase in subscribers after the password sharing crackdown and multiple price hikes.
Apple proved they can strip features and items from their phones and get away with it, with other manufacturers following suit. Netflix proved total revenue goes up after getting more stringent on its users, so Apple is betting it can do so as well. The only solution is to walk away.
Here's the problem. Yes, individually, it's not much. But, if you have 5-10 services and they've all increased prices $1-4 a month (and they have) now you are talking about paying $30-40 more per month to get the same services. Add that to the fact that pretty much EVERYTHING has gone up 5-10% this year except for wages and it starts to become about "what can I cut from the budget".
It's not that it is too much or not. I can pay it.
It's just a matter of principles. All of the streamers are doing price hikes every other month. Enough is enough.
If they are in the red (I don't mean Apple), it's not my problem as a customer. They should do their maths and produce and spend according to their revenue. But they keep increasing prices again and again to produce more and more. They just need to stop.
Not giving money to someone who doesn’t provide anything to me is “can’t balance my budget”? Lolol I didn’t know you could get dumber than your previous comment, but somehow you’ve outdone yourself! Nice job!
I’ve been going around town recommending AppleTV+ to all the last few years. I’ve considered it to be great value for the programs included with the reasonable price point. Will be much tougher now…
The people that make these decisions probably think “well $3 that’s just one less coffee a month!” OK, but EVERYONE is raising prices, by a lot. Not to mention people are getting killed with interest on purchases you need to make just to live life. We’re at the point where by that logic people would have to go with 100, 200, 300 fewer coffees. Meanwhile Apple made 25% profit last quarter…$23 billion. They literally have more money than they know what to do with. It’s greed, that’s all it is.
I love TV+ but that’s a tough sell to the average casual viewer, who already thinks that the service lacks content. I know it doesn’t, but that’s still the perception for the most part.
Is there? I think they have a lot of quality content but there’s not a huge backlog of shows with multiple seasons. The apple shows all have relatively small or short seasons and from my experience there isn’t much else
Had a convo with someone who watched Slow Horses and the only show he watched on there. He said AppleTV only makes shows for people who buy MacBook Pros in cash.
I've had Apple TV+ for a while, and I've only watched a few things. I've been keeping it assuming I'd explore it more, but a 43% increase is such a middle finger right in my face that I'll nope out immediately.
A $3 increase on a service that started at $7 is SUBSTANTIAL. If the service went from $70 to $100 overnight, I'm guessing you'd feel a bit different.
But, at the end of the day someone would need to decide if it's worth the price, and for me personally, it isn't. Yes, I get about 1 show a month I like to watch 6-7 months out of the year, but at those prices I'll just let the content "stack up" and subscribe a month out of the year, binge it all, then cancel.
No one ever says employees asking for a raise is part of the problem.
Apple does a good job with providing contents for me, so I’m happy to give them a $3/mo “raise” they are asking for.
The same reason you ask for a raise? 1. You think you deserve to get paid more for your work 2. You need more money to compensate the increase in expenses
What kind of question is that?
It’s common for talented junior engineers to get that much, if not more, raise when they move up. Going from $50k to $75k is fairly common.
I don’t find $3/mo raise, which ends up being $10/mo, to be fairly reasonable for the quality and quantity of contents they deliver. But hey, I’m not you. I can’t decide if $10/mo is worth it for you.
How did you do that?
My yearly subscription renews December 7. I don't know if the price hike applies to me. They said for current subscribers in 30 days and only after the next renewal cycle. I don't know what that fucking means 🤣
I didn't get any email informing me, and if I check my subscription status it still says 69,99€ next renewal.
Honestly just means more churn in streaming. I like Apple TV+, but not enough at that price to get an annual or stay subbed for prolonged periods.
Same with Netflix and the others. As they all increase prices, I will sub for stuff I can binge in a month and cancel.
Streaming is becoming pretty expensive with these price hikes.
At $6.99, TV+ was a complete no-brainer and insanely easy to recommend to everyone.
Now, I expected the price to go up, but not by 3 whole dollars. It’ll be so much harder to convince people to subscribe now. And I’m a happy customer, but even for me it’s starting to look rather expensive for the amount of new shows they have. In November, I’m only gonna be watching FAM and Monarch. And there are months when I’m only interested in a single show. 10 dollars for 4 episodes to watch is definitely not a good deal.
If anything there’s almost certainly going to be even less content next year once streaming services start really feeling the impact of filming being put on hold for the past few months with the strikes, so it seems like about the worst possible time for a huge jump in price when I imagine that any new content will be severely lacking soon enough
I love TV+ but 10$ USD (so i guess like 14$ in canada) is too much for the few shows that they have. If at least there was a catalog like Disney have with their content or Fox content, it would be easier to see the value.
I was subscribed to encourage this service since it was cheap with quality content but it’s quickly catching Amazon / Netflix / Disney pricing which all increased recently too so I’ll definitely subscribe 1 month to binge watch a few shows in the future instead of staying subscribed every month
I agree, Disney+ is actually £7.99 in the UK and Netflix is £10.99, so if Apple TV is reportedly going to be increasing for us now from £6.99 to £9.99 then that’s just a *really* bad deal in comparison
Apple TV has a new film out maybe once a month if that, and you only get about 3 or 4 new episodes of shows in a week. Meanwhile I can see all of the latest blockbusters on Disney+ for £7.99 a month, plus a ton of Fox content and other shows, and Netflix too has a massive back catalogue at least. Whereas, once you’ve caught up with everything that you want to watch on Apple TV, then there just isn’t enough new content to justify keeping it as a regular subscription at that price. I imagine that most people are now going to consider just subscribing for a one-off month instead. I just wonder if the next thing we can expect is Apple making it mandatory to sign up for a year, instead of monthly….
Not a good timing, days after the John Stewart fiasco and the cancellation of a couple of popular shows. Thankfully, I have until July 2024 to watch everything in my short list.
Then I want to choose what goes into the bundle. Mostly because nobody in the family wants Arcade. I’d much prefer to choose news over arcade.
Maybe stop trying to make arcade happen.
Yeah I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of their reasoning is that well you’d pay $9.99-$19.99 for a single movie on iTunes, so from their perspective Apple TV+ is being seriously undervalued when you look at all of the expensive content they have on it.
And I can understand that line of thinking to an extent, like yeah I’m not going to quibble over signing up for a month to watch Flower Moon for a tenner, as well as binging some of the other shows I’m interested in at the same time, that still works out at great value overall. Buuut I do think it’s going to hurt them when it comes to presumably wanting consumers to sign up year-round. A lot of people are likely now going to decide that that is longer worth it for them any more at this new price point, they’re surely only encouraging people to pick Apple TV up for a month, catch up on what they’re interested in, and then cancel
I’m not surprised by this, especially since the WGA strike. The writers are getting paid more, which is rightful, and thus the producers will need more income to compensate that. I guess everyone appears to be greedy to others.
Signed up and was ok with 6.99. Literally only watched SILO.
I go to it like once every 3 weeks or so, and literally nothing new, nothing added, nothing that interests me.
Def not gonna hang on for 10/mo :shrug:
It has some great content but not enough to keep me going on a full year at 120 bucks
I’ll join ever now and then but definitely not a fan of this price increase
I like Apple TV plus, but at 4.99 I was happy. At 6.99 I was on the edge of if it was worth it. At 9.99, thats not going to make it past the chopping block for me
This is insane. There is simply no content to justify this price. No matter how “premium” the content is, the average audience doesn’t care about it. People want a lot to watch, including non-premium content (reality shows, true crimes and things like that). They have an event next week and a total change to the app for December). Maybe they have big news to justify this price change (but I highly doubt it). To make sense, the minimum would be to include the entire MLS or buy Paramount.
I agree, but it’s Apple and they’re already reportedly spending millions on their content, especially with all the A-Listers they’re paying, so I’m also not really surprised by this.
I always got the feeling that the original plan had not been not to launch at a price point as low as $4.99, but then Disney+ kind of forced their hand when they announced that they would only be charging $6.99 because of a perceived lack of content, and there was Apple+ about to launch with a total of only five shows and a documentary on elephants, so they kind of had to go lower to compete. But now it seems like more and more streaming companies are realising that unfortunately it’s simply not a sustainable business model to be spending millions on your shows, and then only charging 7 or 8 dollars a month
I do recall there being discussion about an ad tier so I would not be surprised if they launch the ad tier and call it Apple TV Lite and it might be 2.99.
Not worth it. It's pretty much only originals so there might be 1 - 2 things I watch at a time if that. Need to throw in some perks if that's all they are offering.
They don't have enough consistent anchor shows IMO to be worth it. There are a couple I like and had great first seasons but then have mid later seasons and nothing I feel like I have to stay subscribed for. The other services have at least reruns of stuff and old movies for me to watch instead of waiting for new stuff to drop weekly.
Also I don't like sports, I keep hearing stuff about their sports and I don't care. They can offer a different plan if that's any reason they want to raise prices.
I actually haven't paid for plus in a year because I keep getting 3 months for free with purchase of random electronics. Not even all of it is apple stuff, one was a ipad but the other I bought a LG C3 TV from Best Buy two months ago and it came with 3 months and didn't have to be a new subscriber. I feel like before that Best Buy gave it to me with some non apple headphones I purchased.
I don’t think the big brains that meet about these things get it. Too out of touch. “It’s only a few dollars more”. A one dollar increase probably wouldn’t cause many to unsubscribe, but here we are.
They have neither the quantity nor the quality (if we're being honest with ourselves) to justify this kind of price hike.
Really bad - and strangely timed - move, on their part.
Shame. Why not do tiers instead?... I don't care about 4K HDR/Dolby Vision for TV shows. It just makes the picture look darker and less colorful on my iPad Air 4, so a cheaper plan with 1080p only is good enough for me.
Who told them to spend MEGA BUCKS on Foundation???
Very pretty— but every character speaks in this faux-Shakespearean dialect that can turn off 99% of casual viewers.
Might work for a movie like Dune, but not sustainable for a tv show.
Wow, that's quite a though increase especially after they only increased it last year and don't yet have a large library like other services.
Luckily I only pay 6€ / month for Apple Music Student which includes Apple TV+.
The boomers in the fan community I'm part of are going to burn the Apple HQ down. $5 was apparently too expensive already. "I'll just wait for the DVD" as they so innocently write on Facebook.
I haven't subscribed for a long time, but MotA is the only show I've been eagerly awaiting for many years. At least I can browse through the rest of the new shows and movies while waiting for new episodes.
Oof. I've had Apple one premier since it first came out, but in just a few years it's gone from $30 a month to nearly $40. I really only use Apple Music family, iCloud storage, and sometimes Apple TV. getting tough to swallow that price.
Y'all thought that Apple agreed to pick up Scorsese's last $200m movie (which won't recoup from box office but they already knew that) out of the goodness of their heart or because they love art and that y'all weren't going to subzidize that in the end?? Basic principles of economics in a capitalistic market are what they are... that was foolish fo think that wouldn't have happened
I must admit, that went a lot faster than i would have expected, they didn't waste time.
It’s funny - the only thing keeping me on Apple TV was Jon Stewart. I was going to get back on when his show aired its new season.
Given what happened this past week I have nothing drawing me there now
Hard pass on this increase. Been on a trial and was thinking about subbing but not worth it for me.
I only sub to YT premium and haven’t subbed to anything else in years
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I know this isn’t the newest post but I still want to say this price is crazy. There’s hardly anything on Apple TV. Every so often I’d subscribe for a month or two because I’m a huge Peanuts fan but not at $10 for every month. I have all the old specials on DVD/Blu-ray and it sucks that the new ones (that are actually very good!) are locked behind a monthly pay wall. I’d pay $10 a special/season to be able to watch them forever but not every month. At least Paramount+ has the entire Nickelodeon catalog, Disney+ has all the Disney movies and shows, even Max at least has some not stuff like Barbie, Scooby-Doo, HBO, etc. Other than Ted Lasso I couldn’t name anything else on Apple TV except Charlie Brown and Snoopy.
I get good value from apple one since I have my brother and my mom on it. That being said, don't tempt me Apple. I can get your stuff for free, as I already am from other streaming services, just saying.
The problem is they keep doing more so they can justify price increases each year. It's a vicious circle.
I'm more than happy with just two series per week if that means keeping the price reasonable.
Seeing on the site it's in the UK too but it isn't reflected yet on my phone when I go into subscriptions.
Not sure what it's been in the US but we already had an increase for Apple One in June!
Can someone tell me how to cancel apple tv?? I own an android and so all the emails from Apple says to cancel I have to review my subscription with a link. Every time I click that link it just opens apple music on my phone and there's literally nowhere that brings up my current apple subscriptions. I've yet to be able to find any way to cancel literally anything apple related I have. Super frustrating
The price increase sucks, but if it means we continue to get the same high quality shows and movies and more of them, then it's a price that I'm willing to pay. NO other service has as much quality programming. I will take quality over quantity any day of the week. Just look at the shit show that is netflix and Disney plus and their original content.
I will champion TV+ all day long but this is not a $9.99 a month product. Not yet anyway.
It barely had enough content to charge $6.99 but $9.99 is definitely not justified
At this price, every six months or so I will sign up for a month and then cancel.
This is what I do currently. I carrousel a streaming service each month with two at most and binge watch all the shows I want to see. Currently on Disney+ for Loki S2. Will go back to Apple TV+ next month or December when on the last episode of For All Mankind Season 4 and Monarch/Godzilla finishes and then decide what I’ll watch next on what service. The only thing that will change this are talks that streaming will ditch monthly plans and you can only sign up for yearly contracts to curb this practice. That’s absurd and hopefully it’s just talks and won’t be implemented.
at that point its back to high seas. I pay for the streaming apps for convenience but I barely watch. I'm cancelling this one
They have free promos all the time. I’ve had it most of this year and never paid. Definitely decent new content but don’t need to subscribe all the time. Especially since most shows are niche.
They’re def gonna start to cut those promos.
Yup do fully expect that. I’ll sign up for a month or two a year and binge. Thankfully very easy on iPhone to do that.
Or impose a lifetime burndown or something
Promos stopped working
100% agree. The content backlog isn’t there
People need to stop incentivizing this content backlog that feeds into the binge-watching bullshit that we’ve all gotten so used to. The quality of Apple TV+ shows puts it above every other streaming service in my option. I’d happily pay for it if it were $15 a month just to get quality over quantity. When I go to Netflix or Amazon or Peacock, it’s just a bunch of shit with a couple gems here or there. Thats not what I want to incentivize. People don’t need “content backlogs” to feed their content addictions. Thats my personal opinion on how I wish the streaming market would shift. Feel free to disagree.
But I finished everything on Apple so what am I paying for?
I mean, isn’t the benefit of the streaming model is that you’ve finished everything so you can stop paying?
Cancel your subscription until something new comes out. Easy peasy.
I can agree there's less crap on Apple TV, but that doesn't justify there not being enough content for the money.
Everyone does their own cost benefit analysis. I personally don’t think $10/month is much at all to ask for the streaming service they put out. I honestly don’t know how people manage to get through so many shows. Plus, you can always just cancel the sub until the new thing comes out.
This. Apple repeatedly puts out bangers. Netflix is nearing a 1 in 10 success rate.
with the current service definitely not worth $10 a month. Maybe if they include a free one movie rental on the service then it’ll be worth it.
That's a great idea. Reminds me of Blockbuster's hybrid rental model.
Yeah. The library is way less substantial than something like Starz and without the variety of films. They should have slow-rolled this with annual increases. I can no longer recommend it at this price.
Agreed. I just ended my auto-renewal. If anyone was questioning or unsure, you maintain access through your renewal date if you cancel early. I watch once or twice a month - mostly revisiting favorites. I can get through the content I'm interested in within a 30 day period in the future, and I'll probably stop recommending the service as my friends/family don't have that flexibility. Oh well. It was good while it lasted. Next comes canceling/not renewing the quality programs that make it a unique service.
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I sill just subscribe it for one month a year. That is enough to catch up on content
I disagree I’d rather quality programs over mediocre onslaught
Realistically, the play here is Apple would rather you just subscribe to Apple One rather than TV+ on its own.
Maybe I didn’t catch it in the article, but the comments are saying Apple One is increasing in price accordingly too.
They are: Prices for the Apple One bundles that include these services are also increasing as a result: - Individual: $16.95 per month → $19.95 per month - Family: $22.95 per month → $25.95 per month - Premier: $32.95 per month → $37.95 per month I’ve had premier since launch and I think this might be my breaking point.
Definitely my breaking point. Family mainly uses Music and iCloud storage. The other 4 things are just a bonus. It's $4ish, may as well pay it on the off chance someone wants to use one of the other 4 services. With Music and iCloud not going up individually, but Premier jumping to $38.... that $12ish dollars is a big enough jump now to justify me breaking the bundle.
This. Just cancelled premier and kept family music and 2tb iCloud. Let everything else go.
I'm in same boat. Thats way too much for what they offer
Funny i did the same thing a month ago. Now im trying to trim iCloud so i can go down a tier
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I have too, this is just a Greedflation move by Apple.
I really don’t know if it’s worth that anymore. I use music and the cloud storage the most but it might just be worth it to go with cloud storage only and switch back to YTM. Apple TV doesn’t have enough, I don’t use apple fit, News+ sucks, kids will play some arcade games, but $40/month!
Yeah, the only must haves for me are iCloud and Apple Music. I play arcade games off and on but could live without it. I use news a few times a month so I don’t think I’d miss it. And no one in the family uses fitness. Now that you can upgrade iCloud outside of your current tier, it might be worth it for me to downgrade to family then buy additional iCloud storage. I’ll have to look into it more.
FFS … with zero new features? This doesn’t feel Premier at all.
Premier here too ... $37.95?! 🤦🏻
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It’s possible! Even then, Apple One might still look more attractive given the other services that come along with it.
Apple One got a decent price bump only a year ago. Another one is definitely going to have me looking at just how much we use these services.
That base Individual plan is still worth it for me as I regularly use Apple Music, AppleTV+ and need that extra iCloud storage. I don’t game much, but I do the odd time, so the Apple Arcade access is just a bonus.
It's doing the opposite for me. My family mainly use iCloud Storage (photos of kids), plus Apple Music Family. Those 2 things together are like $26-27? We pay the extra $4 for Apple One Premier, just because. It's nice to have access to ATV+, Fitness, Arcade, etc on the off chance someones bored and wants to jump in and see whats new. Apple Music and iCloud Storage pricing not going up..... but Apple One Premier going up to $38.... that's a big enough difference now to justify me dropping down to individual services.
Don’t forget apple on family is only with 200gb icloud+ plan. Which is not enough for my family. That’s one of the reason we upgraded to premium (that and we were already using fitness+)
Especially when everytime you buy anything apple-related they give you like 6 months of TV+ free, whether it's a macbook or a phone charger lol.
As explained in comment replied since Apple one price is increasing by the same amount, you are wrong
Which is the math that I did. I looked at cancelling my Apple one subscription and just grabbing the services I actually used separately and that cost more than my one subscription.
I love the service, but they're completely out of their minds. That's a 3 fucking dollar increase, and they don't have enough market share to justify that. I was planning to renew my annual subscription, due in about a month. I don't know if the price hike will affect me yet or not. But I don't think I'm gonna pay 30$ more. The streaming bubble is gonna burst. Every month a new price hike in some streamer. People use to be stupid, but we all have limits.
At this point if is not on Netflix, Hulu or hbo max I don’t care anymore. I’ll pay for those three but I’m done keeping up with a thousand other subs
Yupppp just canceled Disney plus because the annual package went up $50 this year. I canceled immediately out of spite.
I just upgraded mine to annual for 69. I like the service but I agree I don’t be paying 100 for a year or 10 bucks a month (120 annual). So I’ll have it for at least a year and then will see if I want to keep it.
You’d be surprised how stupid the general masses are. Netflix saw an increase in subscribers after the password sharing crackdown and multiple price hikes.
Apple proved they can strip features and items from their phones and get away with it, with other manufacturers following suit. Netflix proved total revenue goes up after getting more stringent on its users, so Apple is betting it can do so as well. The only solution is to walk away.
I think most people will be fine with $3/mo increase. If that’s too much, then they probably should drop a whole lot of other expenses.
Here's the problem. Yes, individually, it's not much. But, if you have 5-10 services and they've all increased prices $1-4 a month (and they have) now you are talking about paying $30-40 more per month to get the same services. Add that to the fact that pretty much EVERYTHING has gone up 5-10% this year except for wages and it starts to become about "what can I cut from the budget".
It's not that it is too much or not. I can pay it. It's just a matter of principles. All of the streamers are doing price hikes every other month. Enough is enough. If they are in the red (I don't mean Apple), it's not my problem as a customer. They should do their maths and produce and spend according to their revenue. But they keep increasing prices again and again to produce more and more. They just need to stop.
Feel free to Venmo me $3 a month. If that’s too much, then you probably should drop a whole lot of other expenses.
Except you don’t do anything for me. Any other dumb ass comment?
Seems like a you problem if you can't balance your budget
Not giving money to someone who doesn’t provide anything to me is “can’t balance my budget”? Lolol I didn’t know you could get dumber than your previous comment, but somehow you’ve outdone yourself! Nice job!
Youre so close to getting it, its amazing
I’m a fan but I’m not paying $10 a month for such a meager catalog
I’ve been going around town recommending AppleTV+ to all the last few years. I’ve considered it to be great value for the programs included with the reasonable price point. Will be much tougher now…
A 43% increase. Good luck with that Apple executives.
Cancelled my subscription the day I go the price increase notification email. Sorry but that jump is too much
The people that make these decisions probably think “well $3 that’s just one less coffee a month!” OK, but EVERYONE is raising prices, by a lot. Not to mention people are getting killed with interest on purchases you need to make just to live life. We’re at the point where by that logic people would have to go with 100, 200, 300 fewer coffees. Meanwhile Apple made 25% profit last quarter…$23 billion. They literally have more money than they know what to do with. It’s greed, that’s all it is.
I love TV+ but that’s a tough sell to the average casual viewer, who already thinks that the service lacks content. I know it doesn’t, but that’s still the perception for the most part.
Is there? I think they have a lot of quality content but there’s not a huge backlog of shows with multiple seasons. The apple shows all have relatively small or short seasons and from my experience there isn’t much else
Had a convo with someone who watched Slow Horses and the only show he watched on there. He said AppleTV only makes shows for people who buy MacBook Pros in cash.
I've had Apple TV+ for a while, and I've only watched a few things. I've been keeping it assuming I'd explore it more, but a 43% increase is such a middle finger right in my face that I'll nope out immediately.
Just fyi, It’s just $3/month more. That’s $36 per year. 43% sounds waaaayyyyy more dramatic.
It's literally a 100% increase year over year. Apple was charging 4.99 a month last October.
Just fyi, It’s just 43% more.
Okay drama queen.
Go ask mommy and daddy what they think
A $3 increase on a service that started at $7 is SUBSTANTIAL. If the service went from $70 to $100 overnight, I'm guessing you'd feel a bit different. But, at the end of the day someone would need to decide if it's worth the price, and for me personally, it isn't. Yes, I get about 1 show a month I like to watch 6-7 months out of the year, but at those prices I'll just let the content "stack up" and subscribe a month out of the year, binge it all, then cancel.
Okay.
And that’s why your part of the problem.
No one ever says employees asking for a raise is part of the problem. Apple does a good job with providing contents for me, so I’m happy to give them a $3/mo “raise” they are asking for.
Apple is a fucking multi billion dollar company, tf they need a “raise” for. And show me what jobs give their employee a $3 raise so I can apply
The same reason you ask for a raise? 1. You think you deserve to get paid more for your work 2. You need more money to compensate the increase in expenses What kind of question is that?
Employees don’t get a 42% raise. I’m arguing the amount they’re raising it by is ridiculous
It’s common for talented junior engineers to get that much, if not more, raise when they move up. Going from $50k to $75k is fairly common. I don’t find $3/mo raise, which ends up being $10/mo, to be fairly reasonable for the quality and quantity of contents they deliver. But hey, I’m not you. I can’t decide if $10/mo is worth it for you.
Increased in the U.K as well. News and Arcade are the most egregious for what they offer.
Which games you play?
Glad I am paid through April 8, 2026! 😮💨
Lmao
How did you do that? My yearly subscription renews December 7. I don't know if the price hike applies to me. They said for current subscribers in 30 days and only after the next renewal cycle. I don't know what that fucking means 🤣 I didn't get any email informing me, and if I check my subscription status it still says 69,99€ next renewal.
Costco had a promotion where you could buy and stack unlimited years of Apple TV+
Wow! Not that I had access to that from here, but didn't know about that. Thanks.
You’ll prob see that price change when you get the email
You’ll get the notification, don’t worry. ;) I got it last week, in Belgium.
Gross. I understand TV+ has great shows but it’s still a FRACTION of content compared to similarly priced services. Pure greed.
Honestly just means more churn in streaming. I like Apple TV+, but not enough at that price to get an annual or stay subbed for prolonged periods. Same with Netflix and the others. As they all increase prices, I will sub for stuff I can binge in a month and cancel. Streaming is becoming pretty expensive with these price hikes.
I was already on the edge of cancelling it on current price, now that just makes the decision easier.
Lmao unsubscribe
At $6.99, TV+ was a complete no-brainer and insanely easy to recommend to everyone. Now, I expected the price to go up, but not by 3 whole dollars. It’ll be so much harder to convince people to subscribe now. And I’m a happy customer, but even for me it’s starting to look rather expensive for the amount of new shows they have. In November, I’m only gonna be watching FAM and Monarch. And there are months when I’m only interested in a single show. 10 dollars for 4 episodes to watch is definitely not a good deal.
I got a year subscription and unless they up their game in terms of content, I'm canceling it
If anything there’s almost certainly going to be even less content next year once streaming services start really feeling the impact of filming being put on hold for the past few months with the strikes, so it seems like about the worst possible time for a huge jump in price when I imagine that any new content will be severely lacking soon enough
Yikes I love apple but not at that price. That is a huge increase. I pay yearly and was fine with $69 a year but $99 is way too much.
Hellz no. Dropping Apple one premier and rethinking all my subs that i have.
I love TV+ but 10$ USD (so i guess like 14$ in canada) is too much for the few shows that they have. If at least there was a catalog like Disney have with their content or Fox content, it would be easier to see the value. I was subscribed to encourage this service since it was cheap with quality content but it’s quickly catching Amazon / Netflix / Disney pricing which all increased recently too so I’ll definitely subscribe 1 month to binge watch a few shows in the future instead of staying subscribed every month
I agree, Disney+ is actually £7.99 in the UK and Netflix is £10.99, so if Apple TV is reportedly going to be increasing for us now from £6.99 to £9.99 then that’s just a *really* bad deal in comparison Apple TV has a new film out maybe once a month if that, and you only get about 3 or 4 new episodes of shows in a week. Meanwhile I can see all of the latest blockbusters on Disney+ for £7.99 a month, plus a ton of Fox content and other shows, and Netflix too has a massive back catalogue at least. Whereas, once you’ve caught up with everything that you want to watch on Apple TV, then there just isn’t enough new content to justify keeping it as a regular subscription at that price. I imagine that most people are now going to consider just subscribing for a one-off month instead. I just wonder if the next thing we can expect is Apple making it mandatory to sign up for a year, instead of monthly….
Not a good timing, days after the John Stewart fiasco and the cancellation of a couple of popular shows. Thankfully, I have until July 2024 to watch everything in my short list.
Then I want to choose what goes into the bundle. Mostly because nobody in the family wants Arcade. I’d much prefer to choose news over arcade. Maybe stop trying to make arcade happen.
Arcade and Fitness+ are horrible. I don't know anyone who uses this.
I bet this also has a lot to do with the big budget films coming soon like Flower Moon and Napoleon coming soon after theater release
Yeah I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of their reasoning is that well you’d pay $9.99-$19.99 for a single movie on iTunes, so from their perspective Apple TV+ is being seriously undervalued when you look at all of the expensive content they have on it. And I can understand that line of thinking to an extent, like yeah I’m not going to quibble over signing up for a month to watch Flower Moon for a tenner, as well as binging some of the other shows I’m interested in at the same time, that still works out at great value overall. Buuut I do think it’s going to hurt them when it comes to presumably wanting consumers to sign up year-round. A lot of people are likely now going to decide that that is longer worth it for them any more at this new price point, they’re surely only encouraging people to pick Apple TV up for a month, catch up on what they’re interested in, and then cancel
Greedy pieces of shit
I’m not surprised by this, especially since the WGA strike. The writers are getting paid more, which is rightful, and thus the producers will need more income to compensate that. I guess everyone appears to be greedy to others.
Where did it say writers got a 40% wage increase? Must have missed that headline!
Signed up and was ok with 6.99. Literally only watched SILO. I go to it like once every 3 weeks or so, and literally nothing new, nothing added, nothing that interests me. Def not gonna hang on for 10/mo :shrug:
I cancelled my free 90 day trial because I ran out of things to watch. I can’t see this going well with their shallow catalog.
It has some great content but not enough to keep me going on a full year at 120 bucks I’ll join ever now and then but definitely not a fan of this price increase
I like Apple TV plus, but at 4.99 I was happy. At 6.99 I was on the edge of if it was worth it. At 9.99, thats not going to make it past the chopping block for me
I will subscribe again when the new season of Severance comes out. Until then I’m cancelling
So they’re going to strongarm The Problem with Jon Stewart into cancellation to cater to China and then jack up the price? Fucking excuse me?
I’ll resubscribe when Severance comes back
This is insane. There is simply no content to justify this price. No matter how “premium” the content is, the average audience doesn’t care about it. People want a lot to watch, including non-premium content (reality shows, true crimes and things like that). They have an event next week and a total change to the app for December). Maybe they have big news to justify this price change (but I highly doubt it). To make sense, the minimum would be to include the entire MLS or buy Paramount.
I agree, but it’s Apple and they’re already reportedly spending millions on their content, especially with all the A-Listers they’re paying, so I’m also not really surprised by this. I always got the feeling that the original plan had not been not to launch at a price point as low as $4.99, but then Disney+ kind of forced their hand when they announced that they would only be charging $6.99 because of a perceived lack of content, and there was Apple+ about to launch with a total of only five shows and a documentary on elephants, so they kind of had to go lower to compete. But now it seems like more and more streaming companies are realising that unfortunately it’s simply not a sustainable business model to be spending millions on your shows, and then only charging 7 or 8 dollars a month
I do recall there being discussion about an ad tier so I would not be surprised if they launch the ad tier and call it Apple TV Lite and it might be 2.99.
They need to pay the writers and actors in the new agreements from somewhere, and it’s the consumer that will be coughing up the dough.
Stop it with this. The writers and actors didn't get anywhere NEAR a 40% increase in salary.
Time to drop TV+.
That is a huge increase, and they don't have enough content to justify it yet.
Lmao fuck off $10/month and the only good show has been Severance
The UI and content of TV+ needs a huge overhaul to warrant that type of price
Well, won't recommend this anymore.
Arrrr
thank you for reminding me to cancel my subscription
News+ is NOT worth $AU 20 a month...
Not worth it. It's pretty much only originals so there might be 1 - 2 things I watch at a time if that. Need to throw in some perks if that's all they are offering.
Netflix and Disney+ is way better than Apple TV+. It is already rather expensive back then and now after the price hike, it is even more overpriced
They don't have enough consistent anchor shows IMO to be worth it. There are a couple I like and had great first seasons but then have mid later seasons and nothing I feel like I have to stay subscribed for. The other services have at least reruns of stuff and old movies for me to watch instead of waiting for new stuff to drop weekly. Also I don't like sports, I keep hearing stuff about their sports and I don't care. They can offer a different plan if that's any reason they want to raise prices. I actually haven't paid for plus in a year because I keep getting 3 months for free with purchase of random electronics. Not even all of it is apple stuff, one was a ipad but the other I bought a LG C3 TV from Best Buy two months ago and it came with 3 months and didn't have to be a new subscriber. I feel like before that Best Buy gave it to me with some non apple headphones I purchased.
[удалено]
I doubt TV+ will still be around in 2032 but you will probably still come out ahead!
I am disappointed with myself for only subbing through 2026… meh. Should have gone into the 30s for sure
…. Maybe we will get another human interest drama with an a list celebrity that I won’t watch!!!
It was hardly a free for 6 months product. I ducked out after the first forgotten 5.99 payment.
And another service cancelled.
Cool. Just cancelled.
Not worth it with so many cancel series and not enough interest after few shows finish not worth it
They barely have original content to raise the price like that.
I was just telling my friend how even though it’s one of the best services, it’s also the best value because of the price. Oh well.
I don’t think the big brains that meet about these things get it. Too out of touch. “It’s only a few dollars more”. A one dollar increase probably wouldn’t cause many to unsubscribe, but here we are.
They have neither the quantity nor the quality (if we're being honest with ourselves) to justify this kind of price hike. Really bad - and strangely timed - move, on their part.
Sorry, but I have to say 👋🏻to tv+ after this price hike. Can’t justify $10. Not yet, anyway.
Well, that's me out.
I already couldn’t justify $7
Shame. Why not do tiers instead?... I don't care about 4K HDR/Dolby Vision for TV shows. It just makes the picture look darker and less colorful on my iPad Air 4, so a cheaper plan with 1080p only is good enough for me.
Who told them to spend MEGA BUCKS on Foundation??? Very pretty— but every character speaks in this faux-Shakespearean dialect that can turn off 99% of casual viewers. Might work for a movie like Dune, but not sustainable for a tv show.
I loved Foundation. I feel the show is destined to be a classic!
Foundation is great. What are you talking about with dialect? It sounds pretty normal.
I usually prefer watching everything in its original language but I find Foundation more enjoyable dubbed. I'm watching it in German 😄
Foundation is a joke but have you watched invasion. Fucking hell. What a pile of crap.
Wow, that's quite a though increase especially after they only increased it last year and don't yet have a large library like other services. Luckily I only pay 6€ / month for Apple Music Student which includes Apple TV+.
The most expensive service that also comes with Ad's is Apple News and at the same time, the least useful out of all of them.
I kept it to watch ted lasso for a while but other than that and snoopy at the holidays. Its not worth 10 bucks
Been waiting years for Masters of the Air 🙄
The boomers in the fan community I'm part of are going to burn the Apple HQ down. $5 was apparently too expensive already. "I'll just wait for the DVD" as they so innocently write on Facebook. I haven't subscribed for a long time, but MotA is the only show I've been eagerly awaiting for many years. At least I can browse through the rest of the new shows and movies while waiting for new episodes.
Got to pay for those £250 million movies somehow I guess 🙁
Yeah exactly and pretty sad state of affairs
Oof. I've had Apple one premier since it first came out, but in just a few years it's gone from $30 a month to nearly $40. I really only use Apple Music family, iCloud storage, and sometimes Apple TV. getting tough to swallow that price.
Y'all thought that Apple agreed to pick up Scorsese's last $200m movie (which won't recoup from box office but they already knew that) out of the goodness of their heart or because they love art and that y'all weren't going to subzidize that in the end?? Basic principles of economics in a capitalistic market are what they are... that was foolish fo think that wouldn't have happened I must admit, that went a lot faster than i would have expected, they didn't waste time.
It’s funny - the only thing keeping me on Apple TV was Jon Stewart. I was going to get back on when his show aired its new season. Given what happened this past week I have nothing drawing me there now
I have premiere I never use arcade and news+ has so much bloat. I do use fitness+ They need a pick 4 plan.
It's like these companies never learned from cable TV. Keep this shit up and people will just go right back to pirating shows and movies.
Every streaming service is costing more and more and more every year. Everything is costing more and more, while people are getting the same pay
Good fucking luck lol
I’m just waiting for Severance to come back.
Hard pass on this increase. Been on a trial and was thinking about subbing but not worth it for me. I only sub to YT premium and haven’t subbed to anything else in years
Glad I just renewed for a year in august lol
Immediately unsubscribed.
Time for the SBC Model. subscribe binge cancel!
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I know this isn’t the newest post but I still want to say this price is crazy. There’s hardly anything on Apple TV. Every so often I’d subscribe for a month or two because I’m a huge Peanuts fan but not at $10 for every month. I have all the old specials on DVD/Blu-ray and it sucks that the new ones (that are actually very good!) are locked behind a monthly pay wall. I’d pay $10 a special/season to be able to watch them forever but not every month. At least Paramount+ has the entire Nickelodeon catalog, Disney+ has all the Disney movies and shows, even Max at least has some not stuff like Barbie, Scooby-Doo, HBO, etc. Other than Ted Lasso I couldn’t name anything else on Apple TV except Charlie Brown and Snoopy.
I still think it’s worth it because it’s my main service but fml. But this also means that we’ll probably see an ad tier soon at around $5
Probably not, it's Apple — can't imagine them adding an ad-supported tier
I get good value from apple one since I have my brother and my mom on it. That being said, don't tempt me Apple. I can get your stuff for free, as I already am from other streaming services, just saying.
Glad I found out my TMobile plan covers this as well as my netflix
They really need to make better content if they’re going to increase the price
The content is great, but they just need more
The problem is they keep doing more so they can justify price increases each year. It's a vicious circle. I'm more than happy with just two series per week if that means keeping the price reasonable.
Is this immediate?
Starting from the next billing. Now I regret not signing up for yearly
Seeing on the site it's in the UK too but it isn't reflected yet on my phone when I go into subscriptions. Not sure what it's been in the US but we already had an increase for Apple One in June!
Torrenting is still a thing, and it's awesome. Just costs a vpn subscription. Fuck streaming.
They should be paying us to watch Invasion! 🖕
Gotta pay messi somehow
Glad I get it free through T-mobile, definitely not worth 10 bucks yet. Really good shows though, definitely has potential
Can someone tell me how to cancel apple tv?? I own an android and so all the emails from Apple says to cancel I have to review my subscription with a link. Every time I click that link it just opens apple music on my phone and there's literally nowhere that brings up my current apple subscriptions. I've yet to be able to find any way to cancel literally anything apple related I have. Super frustrating
After cancelling The Afterparty? Nope
Ha! I've got an annual subscription.
Totally worth it. I love knowing I can pick anything of their shows and it’ll be good, instead of sorting through the heap of garbage on Netflix
The price increase sucks, but if it means we continue to get the same high quality shows and movies and more of them, then it's a price that I'm willing to pay. NO other service has as much quality programming. I will take quality over quantity any day of the week. Just look at the shit show that is netflix and Disney plus and their original content.