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Bootlegging’s obvious appeal is the price: zero. There’s no point trying to find a price to appease them.)īut pricing isn’t the only factor in this equation. (Some people, of course, will always choose to bootleg. Set the price too high and you’ll generate less money because more users - ones who might otherwise have subscribed at a lower price - will choose to bootleg. Set the price too low and you’ll reduce piracy but leave money on the table. Subscription pricing requires a form of calculus to find the sweet spot that generates the most money. It’s like ad hoc collective bargaining between users and the corporations that set the prices and define the experience of consuming the media. Ever since the iTunes Music Store opened 20 years ago, at the height of MP3 file sharing via Napster and similar platforms, I’ve always thought of media bootlegging as a form of negotiation.

I’ll quibble with his verb choice and suggest “push” not “force” - no one is forced to bootleg content - but the point stands.

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Many in the UK use modified Fire TV sticks to access pirated TV If Apple TV, Netflix, and Disney+ keep raising prices then it will

Tom Warren, on Twitter/X, makes a keen observation regarding the ever-escalating prices of streaming services: TV+ is now double the price it debuted at just four years ago. Apple Newsroom is sort of a “good news only” company blog.Īt the Apple One bundle level, these increases are pretty modest, but at the standalone level, these hikes are notable. I’d have linked to the Apple Newsroom announcement of these price increases, but there’s not a word about them there. There are no price increases for Apple Music and Apple

Individual: $16.95 per month → $19.95 per month.

Prices for the Apple One bundles that include these services are Has increased from $69 per year to $99 per year accordingly.

Apple News+: $9.99 per month → $12.99 per monthįor those who subscribe to Apple TV+ on an annual basis, the price.

Apple Arcade: $4.99 per month → $6.99 per month.

Apple TV+: $6.99 per month → $9.99 per month.

and many other countries around the world. Its subscription-based services, including Apple TV+, AppleĪrcade, and Apple News+, for new and existing subscribers in the Apple Again Hikes Prices for Its Media Services Wednesday, 25 October 2023Īpple today announced that it is increasing the prices of some of