Is Apple One worth it?

foreign why am I getting Apple ads on my PlayStation Apple's advertising so many subscriptions another free trial more ads for subscriptions don't I already pay enough wait how much do I pay even my bank is trying to get me to subscribe like seemingly all companies apple is participating in the cost that never ends subscriptions to services for some reason they've never grabbed me at launch Apple arcade and TV plus had laughably small lineups Fitness Plus was limited to those few who own an Apple Watch and apple music doesn't have a cool year in review however they've been with us for a few years now and so I'm curious if the value proposition has changed I mean Apple services do offer a lot so much so that you could probably cancel everything you already have and save a considerable amount of money which gives me an idea Steven he's the new guy here at MAC address you have a lot of subscription Services I do how much do you spend a month on them like easily over 100 bucks perfect cancel them you're only going to use apple one for a whole week only Apple TV only Apple arcade the whole thing if I'm gonna have to give something up so are you so you're going to be doing this with me say goodbye to whoever you're watching all right fine one week only Apple Services one week of avoiding spoilers not talking to my friends staying off Twitter this better be good apple [Music] 's not known for making great Services even though the Lord knows they've tried there was the much derided mobile me and then before that there was the uh what was that dot Mac but that eventually evolved into iCloud and following that success Apple launched so many subscriptions that they needed to make another one to include them all apple one available in three tiers the highest end bundle gives you everything two terabytes of iCloud and photo storage TV plus Apple music and classical which is a thing apparently arcade Fitness Plus and news plus and you can share it all with up to five members of your family now you can of course get everything piecemeal from other companies Google one is two dollars a month Netflix 20 Spotify 16 Game Pass 10 Fitbit premium 10 and readly for 12. but all this ends up costing a lot more over twice as much in fact seventy dollars a month the question is then are you giving up anything by going without apple one well we'll see what concessions may arise afterward from this video's sponsor Harry's now I'm ashamed to admit this but I've never used a razor before don't ask because it's the first time for everything and that time is now if you want to look as sharp and as clean as your Apple products then treat yourself to a Harry's shaving set it comes with their Truman handle for excellent grip and control and uses only the highest quality Swedish steel blades made in their German Factory this is so inspiring paired with their super smooth shaving cream you'll be treated to a very comfortable shave because Harry's balance is affordability with quality you won't have to break the bank to get that Comfort it's that easy eh well head to the link below and get a trial set for just five dollars and you can be like me and shave for the first time hello sir how was your week good how was yours it felt like anything it was yours mine got better as it went on I was annoyed at first I thought this was going to be a hassle I thought this was going to be a huge effort of giving up everything I didn't have to fight you for this yeah um didn't end up being that much of a hassle um I'm actually still pretty much just using Apple Services I kind of just got myself hooked now so yeah the service that got you hooked Apple TV see this service that kind of I've been using the most is Apple music and I feel like of all the services that's probably the most established and compelling now to me Apple music's the Easy Choice yeah would you get it I personally would love to get it but there's one thing that I'm just like no I I can't and that is it doesn't have anything comparable to Spotify connect what I love about Spotify connect is that like I'm somebody that very often will start something from my laptop and then want to control it from my phone or vice versa you know I have used Spotify and Spotify connect and that sir there is a certain magic to that that is surprising that Apple hasn't supported that I think for me the thing I really like about Apple music is I love that it it's in lossless especially at the price tier it is though it did go up in priced a little bit recently I I would easily pay that for the higher quality if I wasn't giving up the connectivity Apple music in my opinion is probably the best value music service because you get lossless at no additional cost spatial audio just included with apple music to the extent that I would say if I listen to a good spatial mix on Apple music and then listen to the stereo mix on Spotify on Spotify I feel like I'm getting an inferior version of that song like I feel like I'm actually missing out um and now you have the classical app and it's pretty good if you're into classical music yeah which I'm not but like it's great for someone that is it is really great for someone who's in the classical music basically what we're going to do is we're gonna see what's of these Services you'd subscribe to you'll be willing to subscribe to with your own money just on its own so Apple music would you subscribe to Apple music I wouldn't hate it but it's not my first choice so no X see I would subscribe to it but I have used Apple music when I did the trial and I enjoyed it so I'm giving it a check yeah yeah yeah it's it would definitely be like a very close second choice for me I'll give it that much the next one which you has kept you engaged all week yeah remarkably yeah is Apple TV plus which I what's going on expect so TV plus it's a lot cheaper than all these other surfaces yeah but you're getting a lot less the big thing I found is that when you had just a everything like all these services to choose from yeah you sit down and you're like cool what do I want to watch and I found that that would often lead to me just making very safe choices of I'm going to choose something that's in a genre I know I like or from a director I know I like by being limited to Apple it was like okay there's not as much content here I've watched the stuff that already really appealed to me now I'm going to watch stuff that's maybe on my radar but hasn't really uh grabbed my interest enough to bother watching it and so what I watched was servant this is the first one I sat down to watch and within like three days I was done the first season like whoa it just it hooked me to the point that when this challenge was over I always just kept coming back to Apple TV I would like go play a game for an hour and I'm like no I need to watch more surfing or I'd go on Disney plus watch a couple episodes of something I'm like no I need to go watch more servant and there's a bunch of other shows that I still haven't watched like there is so much content there that it would take me months to get through even if I was just subscribed to Apple TV and nothing else so I had a bit of a different experience kind of Surfing through there like I think you know the Big Show that Drew me to Apple TV plus a couple months ago obviously was Severance which everyone was talking about and it's a really great show and I actually watched it with friends using share play this week I kind of find myself surfing through Apple TV plus and I was struggling to find a show that I wanted to watch don't be wrong there is some Hawker garbage on there as there is any service but I think if you're looking for like high quality shows and you're not super picky about genre I think there's enough there would you subscribe to Apple TV plus already do have for years will continue whoa okay big check hard yes I am a little on the fence it's good stuff this good stuff it's not that expensive I want to do like half check mark with it and then it's an X it's like I would subscribe to it and I wouldn't I wouldn't I wouldn't subscribe to it because I did this in the fall just subscribing for two months to watch Severance if it's not going to be an ongoing thing it doesn't count okay I'll do an X so the next one it's kind of a little bit of an interesting one because I think everyone has experience with this is iCloud and so with apple one Rangers obviously or an even justificate iCloud plus itself from 50 gigabytes to two terabytes above the standard five gigabytes I've now put myself in a position where I've had to pay the upgrade to 50 gigabytes and I'm mad about that wait are you I'm all the way at 200 because I split with my parents what do you use your iCloud for if this is the entire thing yeah like this much is backups yeah this much is iMessage and then like this much is everything else my majority is iMessage and then documents kind of one of those things where it's like you kind of have to get it yeah and I'm mad about that so would you get iCloud plus yes I'd buy it and how many gigabytes if it was just myself 50. I'm only on a higher plan because I'm on a family plan okay I'm the same way I'm 50. as well there's the one thing that's included in all the tiers that we're covering and that is arcade and as we do gaming on Apple yeah has been a thing we've discovered when we looked at the Mac Mini I don't know if you're much of a mobile gamer I've managed to avoid that but what did you think about Apple arcade no I'm not a mobile gamer um that said Apple arcade importantly is not just mobile of course it's also on Mac and Apple TV right and on Apple TV really bad what did you plan on I was pleasantly surprised I so I found an apple arcade a few games that I had played before on my PlayStation sayonor wildhearts and Bree I believe is how it's pronounced I was like okay I want to see how comparable this experience is so I just hooked up my PlayStation controller to my Apple TV hooked up to the exact same TV I use for my PlayStation and man if you just handed me that controller and I had not seen what was hooked up to what I would just assume I'm playing on Playstation okay it is genuinely comparable to a console experience for those games the asterisk is that I could probably count on one hand how many of those games there are looking at the way Apple arcade has come along we don't have to deal with free to play games you can actually like play a game normally but even like going into some of the games I'm like these interfaces look very much like free to play games even though they don't quite operate like that it's kind of like a little disconcerting especially with the two games I played but then looking at that list like they just added the city Builder game whose name I can't even remember now and I I played a bit of it and I was kind of not into it and there's this car game that I was playing and I don't even remember the name of that one either a little bit more interesting but I couldn't get the controls right it's it's tough the other thing is the release Cadence for a while there you're kind of just getting like one game every couple weeks and it I was kind of worried I was like oh is Apple arcade kind of like running out of steam here but then as we're making this video 20 new games in one day which as far as I'm aware aside from like their initial launch is the biggest release day they've had I hope this means that more developers are getting interested I hope as well they start to support like the max side of things way more would you pay for Apple arcade I would not pay for Apple arcade but in paying for apple one there's some games there that would be worth uh my time no me neither the next one's interesting because uh it's not one I would ever have thought of it's the biggest surprise to me when it came out which is Fitness Plus which basically means apple is effectively making workout DVDs if Apple released this service 20 years ago it would be a DVD box set yeah but you do workout yeah and you four you did forgo the gym this week yeah there we go I didn't dislike it as much as I thought but it's still not for me they offered 12 workout groups yeah of those three are stationary bike rowing machine treadmill so now you're down to nine groups basically uh one of the other ones strength training has 300 over 300 workouts available if you choose to filter to only see videos with no equipment it goes down to about 10. so each workout has a set playlist you cannot change that but each workout will have something different so they have workout set to Country workout set to pop but it's the same for everyone you cannot change that which I find a bit strange because hey why it's already linked to my Apple music I can go to the workout details and it pulls up like the music feature there and I can just one tap on it it brings me into Apple music why can I not just say it to my own workout it allows you to track your calories burned and all of that you know whatever it is that's in your ranks I'm gonna be honest down pay attention to rings I don't care but they are weird so many people are obsessed with them it's a service that I think if you're somebody that already goes to the gym it doesn't have much value yeah but if you don't go to the gym and you're just trying to get into fitness or you just want something to do at home and you like that kind of like instructor setting it it's great for a certain person it's not me but it I I think that service for somebody who's looking for that will be uh well fulfilled by it so though would you get this service yourself I'd recommend it by Wingate okay so big no big big no for me okay big no for me too yeah yeah I didn't even ask you at all the appeal like did you even like consider trying it at all because you do use an Apple Watch do you use it for any sort of Fitness tracking at all when I go to walk to my friend's house it Taps me on the wrist and says is this an outdoor walk and I say sure I think I would want to go personally would want to go beyond workout videos you know to be fair I did I did try some in my Pat in a past life and and they were really nice to do um and so I you know no problems doing it but looking at Fitness plus it's kind of like think probably for what I would want to do I don't know if Fitness Plus would really cover the cover that now the next one I will have lots to talk about because it's news plus and I will have a lot did you even open up news Plus at all I did I did read a page of a magazine talking about a Corvette so having these plus feels like this like kind of like this like ah release I can like actually access all this interesting content and read which is really nice and I think too like if you're someone who finds yourself caught behind these news article paywalls all the time um news plus could be a really great way to just have access to it all at one go what I found with news plus was that it was surfacing articles and news pieces and entire Publications that I wouldn't necessarily seek out would you mostly do with it like what were you mostly reading for I read uh Car and Driver articles from whatever Wall Street Journal and so it was really nice to be able to do that now one of the things you can run into is like somebody links to an article on Twitter and you click the link and it takes you to the web page and then you got the pay wall there and so if you have Apple news plus there's a bit of like a translation layer where you have to kind of find the article kind of manually on Apple news plus so which is really annoying and then if you want to share an article you're only sharing the Apple news plus link and so there's sort of like a bit of a disconnect there that's not really clear so yeah would you get it I would I I would not yes me okay uh I really want it I really do like it I might give it I think I'm gonna give it a check I think it's a great value it's not for me but I think it's a great value okay so it appears that apple one does give you a lot if you've subscribed to it especially if you get the premiere plan and it does come with pretty steep savings if you get everything together but really how much you save is dependent on the services you're going to use and if you need them and looking at this chart you have two things yes and I have three things which is a big surprise here yeah and this is this is in line with what I currently actually pay for right I do pay for TV plus I do pay for iCloud plus I don't pay for any of the others six dollars a month and this this would be a dollar a month yeah yeah so that is a lot less than if you're to get the Apple One subscription it is yes the thing that would push that over the edge is Apple music which if they're not there if they just added that one feature so we got 11 that's 21. 22. yeah but you only get Apple news plus with the premiere subscription which is 32. I'm still below yeah uh I guess that means neither of us want Apple One yes but I think that's for us because I think this would be good enough for most people I pay for too many things yes you do apple one is the solution you pay for I you wish AppleOne would work for you it's you it is so close it was so close to make a difference for you and it can't I kind of just want to anyways there's no two ways around it apple one gets you a lot with some pretty steep savings but how much you save if anything at all is dependent on how many services you use and if you need them I mean if you're on the family plan I can see that splitting with even one other person makes it pretty affordable let alone up to six but why not subscribe then the real value proposition for apple one comes down to how much you like Apple's TV plus lineup if there's enough to keep you subscribed continuously long term then yes apple one is great value and you like Apple TV and so while AppleOne does represent considerable savings compared to getting everything individually that doesn't mean you should just jump on it if you're not signing up for most of the services you won't be saving any money and so that means that Stephen and I will be canceling our subscriptions thanks for subscribing to this Mac address if you love subscriptions and paying for them well like this video and I'm curious what amount of Apple subscriptions you would actually sign up for like Steven and I would you make the Apple One thresholds comment below

Channel: Mac Address

Views: 549,560

Keywords: Mac, Macintosh, Apple, Tech, Review, Apple One, PlayStation, Gaming, Arcade, Fitness, TV, TV+, Fitness+, News, News+, Subscription, service, review, interview

Id: TFCRLLeCjL0

Length: 19min 49sec (1189 seconds)

Published: Wed May 17 2023