There was some discussion on one of the shows regarding what happens when the free year of Apple TV+ is up. Has there been any definitive word about extending that, or getting another free year with an Apple device purchase? Or did the whole bundle thing (apparently copied from Frank Fritz on American Pickers ) doom the āfreeā year with purchase?
As an aside, I pay for a year at a time for Apple Music. If I wanted to bundle, I wonder how would that work? I just paid for a year a couple of months ago.
I forget which devices earned the free year, maybe phones and Apple TV. I donāt believe they stack. Itās never been stated that the free year will be extended, or if the promotion will continue with the iPhone 12. Pundits like to speculate, since the service isnāt hugely popular, and we all should be stuck inside, that Apple might extend it further. Given theyāre launching Apple One and including it at all tiers, my guess is they wonāt extend.
Well, I just received my iPad 8th generation, and I got emails saying I could get 4 free months of News+ and 4 free months of Apple music. If I wasnāt already a subscriber. I subscribe to Apple music, so thatās out, but Iāll give the News+ a whirl. I bought my iPad from Best Buy, so Iām not sure if that was a deal that was just for Best Buy, or if it was offered if you bought it from Apple too.
There was no mention of AppleTV+. Iāll probably use my Upgrade every year from AT & T for a cell phone, so weāll see about that. But I doubt it. They would offer it on the iPad if they were going to do it.
Iām guessing that had Apple not come up with Apple One, they would offer another free year if you bought a new device.
If they would let you swap out Arcade for Apple News+, we would probably go with the family plan. We wonāt use Arcade, so we would effectively be shelling out $7.00 for AppleTV+ (we have a single Apple Music plan we pay yearly. My wife likes Pandoraā¦), & we share 200GB iCloud. We would probably use Apple News+, so that would entice us.
Honestly, we havenāt watched AppleTV+ very much after the first month or so. We have cable, and several other subscription movie/TV services. There comes a point where thereās not much point to having anotherā¦