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The other half and I decided to go with the Apple One subscription back when they first started it.\u00a0<\/p>\nThe other half and I decided to go with the Apple One subscription back when they first started it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both of us were paying for Apple Music and individual iCloud Storage. We\u2019d purchased Apple TVs for the living and bedrooms, but Apple\u2019s original programming wasn\u2019t anything we were interested in at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I knew that I was going to be interested in Foundation <\/em>when Apple released the first season.<\/p>\n When we did the math, we found we were already spending nearly the initially high 29.95 monthly fee for Apple One individually, since we could share the Apple One subscription we went for it.<\/p>\n Honestly we were only interested in the Music<\/strong> and iCloud<\/strong> storage. There was a high probability that Apple TV+<\/strong> would become interesting to me. Although to date I\u2019ve only watched Foundation<\/em> and Invasion<\/em>. There are some Apple produced movies that looked somewhat interesting but not enough to captivate my attention so that I sat down and spent 2 hours of my life watching them.\u00a0<\/p>\n I was interested in the Apple Fitness<\/strong> guided training. I\u2019ve used it a few times just to get a feel for it. At first it only worked on the Apple TV so training had to take place in the Living Room or the Bedroom. Honestly, that didn\u2019t really work. Since then Apple has expanded the functionality to iPhone and iPad so it\u2019s a little more portable.<\/p>\n It\u2019s understood that Apple is a \u201cWoke<\/em>\u201d company. Okay, that\u2019s fine, I\u2019ve always known Apple was full of blue haired people with so many piercings they can\u2019t get through a TSA metal detector. However, recently I thought I’d get more familiar with Apple Fitness and take advantage of regular workout routines during the Winter.\u00a0<\/p>\n Opening the Fitness+<\/strong> tab on the Apple TV I was a little put off. \u00a0It wasn\u2019t that DEI was front and center, it was.<\/p>\n It was that so many of the workouts appeared to be geared for way younger folks than I am. After some digging I was able to find some things geared toward older adults. I\u2019ll try a sampling to see if Apple Fitness+<\/strong> is for me.<\/p>\n The other half and I also liked being able to share our purchases and subscriptions to many applications.<\/p>\n Neither of us cared about Apple Arcade<\/strong>, we were adults, while I looked at some of the games, none were interesting to me and so that part of the Apple One<\/strong><\/em> subscription was never used.<\/p>\n Apple News+<\/strong> is okay but neither of us were really interested in much of the magazine offerings and I literally locked out of my news feed, the extremist news organizations both left and right. The other half eventually got tired of News+<\/strong> and stopped using it altogether. I know this because he needed help turning off all the News+<\/strong> notifications. He generally preferred BBC and NPR until the age of COVID. Then he, like me, found \u00a0very few news organizations that passed the reliability test.<\/p>\n At this point I could take or leave Apple<\/strong> News+<\/strong><\/p>\n All of this has come to mind because of a few things.<\/p>\n 1) The other half is dead. At this new rate, we\u2019re starting to approach old Cable TV rates. (Yes I know the Cable TV people charge far more obscene rates these days. That\u2019s why I don\u2019t have Cable.) As a point of interest, that\u2019s also why I\u2019m looking at new places to live where I can receive local TV with a damn antenna. I don\u2019t even care if it\u2019s only one channel as long as it\u2019s in English. (Where I live now, I can receive one channel but it\u2019s in Korean? or Chinese neither of which I speak.)<\/p>\n I know I\u2019m not getting $37.95 value out of the Apple One subscription. I no longer have a family. (I do have a family but they don’t live with me and have their own stuff going on. It\u2019s a big pain in the ass or was, to merge this stuff or unmerge it, if necessary.) The merge \/ unmerge task is so daunting, my other half is still listed in family sharing on the account. Although in truth, I\u2019m not ready to remove him. It seems so final and I\u2019m not ready for that yet.<\/em><\/p>\n The problem is that when I look at what I\u201dm actually using regularly, and try to break out only those items, I come up with a cost that\u2019s about the same as Apple One. Obviously this pricing structure is to keep Apple One subscriptions.\u00a0<\/p>\n As an older person, I don\u2019t want to spend any more money than I have to. Well, I never wanted to spend more money than I had to. The problem for me now is that since I\u201dm not employed, and living on retirement, I am far less loose with my money.<\/p>\n I\u2019m sure there are a lot of people in the same boat I am. We\u2019re either retired or nearing retirement and being forced out of our jobs explicitly, or surreptitiously. (Ask one of my friends about his experiences after 25 years or more with the same company. Ageism is real. Oh, and by the way, there\u2019s nothing you can do to fight it! The law may be on your side, but lawyers\u2026 You\u2019re lucky to get one of them to return your call or email! Maybe the next time I reach out to an attorney, I\u2019ll say Trump did something to me. Perhaps then I\u2019ll be worth calling back!)<\/p>\n In any case, all of us in this position are re-evaluating where our money goes and trimming the fat. If only we could trim the fat of taxation that gets us very little of use in our daily lives but might just drop a nuke in our backyards…<\/p>\n I digress.<\/p>\n Apple One has become too damn expensive! So effectively older folks or poor people are completely priced out of the Apple One service. DEI my ass!<\/p>\n I\u2019ll evaluate Apple One for the next month or two. Maybe it\u2019s time to cut this shit down to only what I find useful. If we can\u2019t come to an arrangement that works for me, then maybe it\u2019s time for me to stop paying for Apples services entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The other half and I decided to go with the Apple One subscription back when they first started it.\u00a0 Both of us were paying for Apple Music and individual iCloud Storage. We\u2019d purchased Apple TVs for the living and bedrooms, but Apple\u2019s original programming wasn\u2019t anything we were interested in at the time.\u00a0 I knew … <\/p>\n
2) Apple One increased its prices from 29.95 which was already expensive to 32.95 back in spring. At the time, I wasn\u2019t capable of making too many decisions and chose to let that go.
3) Apple sent a notice of another rate increase either Friday Night or Saturday morning, (which is kind of chicken shit, \u00a0because NONE of the executives will be in over the weekend so the folks answering the phones get to take the brunt of the complaints,) The new rate is 37.95<\/strong> a month.<\/p>\n