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Your post encouraged me to cancel 80% of my subscriptions today, thank you. Roughly $80/M I’ll save, I still have 3 and would like to get that down a bit further, but this is a win.
Have you guys seen the production value of ATV+ shows? Now factor in that they are getting A listers to star in their shows. Imagine if they had the quality + the quantity. You can’t expect to keep paying $6.99 or $5.99 for a service when their shows are costing six to seven figures per episode.
Didn’t say I expected the same… but a 40% increase overnight is questionable. Why not just a dollar every 6 months over 2 years? The drastic price increase is the issue not the increase itself.
It’s not overnight, it goes into effect in a month. The Q4 quarter is here, my guess is they need to make up money somewhere to close out the year good. Come Feb when they announce they earning for not only Q4 but all of 2023, they’ll need to show they made X amount of dollars. Some account somewhere told them that based of subscriber growth you’ll need to charge this to make that buy a certain time frame.
I understand how business and capitalism works. Thanks for the lesson professor.
Also, yes it’s 100% overnight — Dec 23 the price is $5.99 and Dec 24 it’s $9.99. Just because they’re advising of the change early doesn’t lessen the 40%+ price increase.
That’s normally how all price increases work.
Name another 40%+ overnight price increase for a comparable subscription service… I’ll wait.
There’s some great shows on tv +, but also fuck them for jacking the price. I have gone to cancel it many times but they cleverly release shows just when you’ve finished the one you’re watching so you end up sticking around. Well played Apple.
Will gladly pay this price increase over Netflix’s and Disney+’s
I remember when I cut the cord to save money. Ha.
My pack went up five bucks but that’s the only increase in decades. Still a great deal.
Christmas joke (NSFW) A 17 year old male walks into a drug store. He says “I’ve been invited to Christmas dinner at my new girlfriend’s house. Afterwards I hope there is a chance I get lucky, you know what I mean”
Clerk: “How about condoms then? They could come in handy. Here’s a pack.” The young man after paying walks to the door, stops, smiles, comes back: “you know what, the mom is also smoking hot, I think I’ll take another pack, just in case I get extra lucky.”
Christmas eve comes around, the boy sits at the dinner table and doesn’t say a word. After a while his girlfriend says: “if I had known you were so quiet, I wouldn’t have invited you.” the young man replies “if you had told me your dad works at a drug store, I wouldn’t have come.”
Still much cheaper than Netflix. Good deal.