I’m going back to just buying games on the cheap now. These monthly price hikes seem to be the norm that I don’t accept. It would be cheaper to just buy the games imho. Especially if you play the same game obsessively. For example I had bought Stardew valley (pc version) outright for about 10 dollars, and can play it for years if I like. Why would I pay the same price just to play it only for one month? I enjoyed Apple Arcade, but not that much. I promptly unsubscribed. Goodbye AA!
Just cancelled news+. You’re paying $12.99 a month and yet there’s an ad in the app.
I don’t know anyone that uses Arcade or News. Is it really that popular to demand price increases?
Y’all paying for this?
Yeah, I’m cancelling out of principle. Only way to let them know how we feel is with our wallets. Already cancelled so many other subs and I don’t miss them. There are other things to do.
Meanwhile my employer hasn’t raised employee wages since November of 2021 and barely in March of 2022, and pretty much a penny in 2023.
It’s getting to the point where my paycheck is getting to naught after bills and whatnot, because of subscription pricing going up on everything. Yes I know I have control over this but sometimes some really good things come from various subscriptions these days, and yeah, I can live without it. But c’mon!
Just wait till the mega raise the price of iCloud and we are all locked in 😡
I’ve been struggling with the decision to go to google for everything now. I already pay for YouTube premium which includes YouTube music, and I have a google one subscription with more than enough storage. Now I’m paying for 2 services that are basically the same. I can do without Apple fitness+ and Apple News, and I don’t need anywhere close to 2Tb iCloud storage.
Problem is it’s just easier to stay with Apple and keep paying. This is what Apple is counting on I guess.
I wouldn’t mind so much if my wage had also increased 30% in the last year. Update my wage hasn’t gone up at all
I want to meet the person who thinks Apple News is worth $12.99 per month
Apple News+ is fantastic.
Magazines filled with real journalism are really good, especially on the iPad. That said, the Mac App is a complete and utter shameful joke.
every corporation has to give increasing profits to their shareholders, at this point, the only way to do this, is to increase the prices, the consumer is hurt and the shareholders gets to buy a new yacht.
Someone that has a subscription for more than one newspaper would gain from paying for Apple News instead
My dad
Liberals who still aren’t aware mainstream news is fake. They have Stockholm syndrome
Apple News is like a really good restaurant that has great food but the chef occasionally comes out and screams at you then goes back in.
News sucks these days. Google, Reddit, Twitter, all have kind of fucked up news to basically just listicals and AI written “blog” content.
Actual quality articles on News+ is legitimately fun to read. You can sidescroll through a bunch of interesting articles but then every second swipe is an ad, and the search sucks, and sharing sucks because it can only share an Apple News link.
So the whole experience is GREAT, except for the parts that fucking BLOWS, which happens every five minutes.
I’ve started using it daily……to play the crossword, which really should be an Apple Arcade game.
Oh good! A 15.18% increase for One Premium with no added benefits! So great! /s
In NL i pay 22.95 euro/month for apple one family plan (iCloud+, music, arcade and appletv+); if i remove arcade, which is the shittiest service, sum of individual subscriptions goes up to 26+ euro…
At least, there is no news about price increase (for the time being)
I was curious about Apple TV +, guess not now lol
I just downgraded my plan to include only Apple Music and photo storage. $32 was pushing it. $38 is just too much to stomach.
Looking at it all together and deciding what to keep and what to toss because of this insane price hike, it’s insane how these subscriptions are all set up. iCloud goes from 2.99 for 200gb to 9.99 for 2tb with no in between? Apple Music is 16.99? Fucking ridiculous and in no way worth it.