Apple TV Plus to launch Nov. 1 for $5/month, with one year free if you buy a device – AppleTV 4 Jailbreak (appletv4jailbreak.com)
CEO Tim Cook presents the pricing and launch date for Apple TV Plus on Tuesday.
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Apple TV Plus, Apple‘s subscription service for exclusive original TV shows and movies, will launch Nov. 1 at a monthly rate of $4.99, and people who buy a new Apple gadget get a free subscription for a year. The details were revealed at Apple’s flagship iPhone event Tuesday, where the company unveiled its iPhone 11 lineup.
Apple TV Plus will also offer a seven-day free trial for anyone else who wants to try it. The company also said “most” of its series will premiere with three episodes followed by one new episode weekly. While “full seasons of some series will be available all at once,” it’s unlikely that Apple’s most anticipated shows will be available for most people to binge during a one-week trial period, at least not until later this year or in 2020 when entire seasons are complete.
But starting Tuesday, customers who purchase a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, iPod Touch or Mac will get one year of Apple TV Plus free. Current Apple device owners aren’t grandfathered in to the yearlong free subscription.
Apple named nine total titles that would be available at launch on Apple TV Plus. “All of these incredible shows for the price of a single movie rental,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said Tuesday on stage. “This is crazy.”
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Apple TV Plus will have a download option for watching its originals offline. In addition, Apple TV Plus will be available to watch on some competitors’ devices too. Apple’s TV app — where you’ll stream Apple TV Plus programming — is available on smart TVs from Samsung, and it’s supposed to become available this year on Roku, Amazon’s Fire TV devices and smart TVs from Sony, LG and Vizio.
But the Apple TV app isn’t available on any mobile devices except iPhones or iPads. That means Apple TV Plus subscribers with non-Apple phones will have to stream to their mobiles via the web, rather than in an app.
Apple’s $5-per-month price is about as much as it could reasonably charge. By comparison, Disney Plus, the highly anticipated streaming service from the entertainment giant, will launch Nov. 12 for $7 a month — with a large library of hundreds of movies and thousands of TV episodes available immediately. Streaming services based on cable networks, like Showtime or HBO Now, usually range between $9 to $15 a month. Smaller, niche streaming services often are priced at about $5.
Period piece Dickinson and sci-fi epic See are two of Apple’s shows that will be available at launch Nov. 1.
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And Netflix, the world’s biggest subscription streaming service, prices its most popular plan at $13 a month in the US; it offers other tiers…
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