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Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/apple-one-and-apple-tv-subscription-prices-increase-by-up-to-20-percent/posted in Technology
Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/apple-one-and-apple-tv-subscription-prices-increase-by-up-to-20-percent/Replying to @return2ozma@lemmy.world
If Streamers were smart, they’d lock pricing and change it for new signups.
Their problem is numbers retention. People would hesitate to cancel if their $8 plan would have to be 15/month or more to restart.
Moving everyone up, just pushes people to cancel, and they’ll be even more unlikely to come back if prices keep going up
Replying to @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
It’s not like they don’t know what they’re doing. They studied all kinds of business strategies diurig their “International business studies” or whatever the fuck they did. The C-suite simply doesn’t care about long term retention, they want their bonuses for this year and the next. They know perfectly well they will be replaced in a few years time anyway, whether it’s because profits are not increasing as much as the shareholders want or whether the profits have gone up because of price raises, but down again because customers left.
But in the second scenario they will get a whole lot more bonuses than in the first. So this is what consumers get: enshittification.