Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.world – 1188 points –
Apple jacks subscription pricing to juice revenues
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I can get the TV+ hike. I don’t like it, but I get it. When TV+ launched it had very little content and no one was going to pay for that little content unless it was cheap. But now there is a pretty good library of new stuff, and it’s usually of better quality than what’s floating around on HBO.

Arcade price hikes - now that seems like a good reason to cancel Arcade. If they’re going to add better games that take advantage of the new fast processors, I can understand console tier pricing. But the games still mostly feel like mobile games. And not mobile as in “Nintendo Switch,” mobile as in “flappy bird.”

The logic is that others raised subscription prices and got away with it, so they can too. Masks have come off in the last 1-2 years and corporations try to milk us for every last cent, using any excuse (e.g. Covid, energy prices) they can. Inflation is not a law of nature, it’s corporate greed for more profits

For All Mankind S4 comes out next month!!!

Oh shit finally, I love that show

!Get fucked Danny!<

Man hbo is just dead at this point.

You got downvoted, but I agree. HBO isn’t what is once was, although there are a few gems. TV+ seems to be the place where people are allowed to spend an ungodly amount of money on a show right now.

I thought the same thing until I found Scavengers Reign.

I'm so excited for that.... But that's definitely Williams St/Titmouse before the merger being awesome as usual with discovering new talent.

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Honestly, arcade is a cool idea, but it’s never been cool enough to buy on its own. I feel like the majority of people that have it just get it as part of Apple One.

Yeah, I agree. I might be cool if you have kids. I don’t, so I’d rather just buy the one or two mobile games I play each year.

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