Apple announced 5 new services which are Apple News+, Apple Card, Apple Arcade, Apple TV Channels, Apple TV+ on March 25th (JST: March 26th) at Steve Jobs Theatre in Cupertino.
Apple announced Apple News+ which is its $ 9.99 (12.99 CAD) per month news subscription service. It offers different publications like newspapers, magazines, etc from many famous publishers like TIME, The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, etc only for $9.99. You can try it free of charge for a month. You can also share the subscription with up to six family members. If you were to subscribe to all of the available publications in Apple News+ separately, it'd cost $8,000 per year, so this Apple's new news subscription service is actually a good deal. It offers more than 300 magazines and you can access on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
The service is available from today in the US and Canada. You can start subscribing to Apple News+ by updating to the latest version of iOS or macOS.
According to Apple, privacy is very important and it's promised that what you read in Apple News+ will never be shared with advertisers and publishers.
Comparison of Apple News and Apple News+
Introduction Video of Apple News+
Apple announced its own credit card called Apple card. It's issued by Goldman Sachs Bank and payment processing is handled by MasterCard. According to Apple, they improved the credit card experience with the easy application, no annual fee, low interest and better rewards, and you can apply for Apple Card through the Wallet app on an iPhone. After you've applied, the digital card will be issued and you will be able to purchase within a few minutes at stores where Apple Pay is accepted. You will be able to check how many money you spent, when the payment due is, etc in the Wallet app. Not only a digital card, but also you'll also get a physical card made with titanium, but there's no information like card number, CVV, expire date and signature on it. This information can be checked in Apple Wallet app.
You'll be able to go onto Apple Maps and see where you purchased and track purchases by categories like "food".
Apple Card gives you cash back rewards, not rewards points. If you pay with Apple Card with Apple Pay, you'll get 2% cash back, and if you buy something from Apple, you'll get 3% cash back. Also, if you purchase with a physical card, the cash back you'll get is only 1%.
Apple Card will be available in the US this summer.
Like other Apple products and services, Apple will never know what you bought with Apple Card and what you used it for.
Introduction Video of Apple Card
Apple announced its own game subscription service called Apple Arcade. Unlike Sony's and Microsoft's game service, it's a game subscription service for games in App Store. It'll be available on an iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV in more than 150 countries.
Game titles that will be in Apple Arcade include Where Cards Fall, The Pathless, The Pathless, Beyond a Steel Sky, etc and theses games will only be available for Apple Arcade. Its subscription includes new features of games and updates of them and there's no in-app purchases and no ads. Games in Apple Arcade don't require an internet connection, so you can play games offline. Like Apple News+, you can share the subscription with up to six family members.
Introduction of Apple Arcades
Apple Arcade Preview
Apple announced that Apple TV app will be available on Fire TV, Sony's TV, etc with a service that you can subscribe to channels like a news channel, sports channel, etc and watch whatever you want to watch.
Apple TV app is going to be released in May this year in the US, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, the UK and you'll be able to enjoy this new service on iPhone, iPad and Mac, not only Apple TV. Apple TV app and the service will be available in more than 100 countries by this fall.
Apple announced its own video subscription service as rumored. You'll be able to stream and download original shows and movies created by famous producers/creators like Steven Spielberg, J.J. Abrams and others. Like Netflix, the content that is going to be distributed in Apple TV+ is only available in Apple TV+.
Apple TV+ will also be able to be streamed on Fire TV, Sony's TV, etc.
Apple TV will be available in more 100 countries this fall and come to Apple TV app.
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