Today’s focus is apple’s services
- Apple news
- Adding Magazines to News
- Apple News+
- More than 300 Magazines
- Live covers (Magazine cover gifs)
- Some newspapers. La Times, WSJ, etc
- Advertiser privacy, no tracking
- $9.99 per month (includes family sharing)
- Available today, first month free
- US and Canada so far
- Apple Pay
- Adding US transit systems, select cities
- Apple Card (credit card)
- Sign up on iPhone
- Use where apple pay accepted
- New capabilities in wallet to show usage, bills
- Statement improvements
- Remove cryptic transaction store names
- Geo location
- Categorization, spending habit tracking and trends
- Cash rewards, not points. applied daily. added to apple cash card, 2%
- 3% rewards on apple products
- Reward points are not limited
- Emphasis on full payment, not minimum payment
- No Fees (late, annual, international, over-limit)
- Low interest rates. No penaltys for missing payments
- Partnered with Goldman Sachs and MasterCard
- Per-device card numbers
- Privacy: Apple doesn’t know what you bought. GS will not share any data to third parties
- Comes with a physical card for when apple pay is not accepted
- Titanium, laser etched. (3D Render looks amazing)
- Chip only, no card number, expiration, or signature (Info is in wallet app)
- 1% rewards for physical card
- Available this summer
- Apple Arcade
- Game subscription service for mobile/desktop/tv
- Over 100 new and exclusive games so far
- New tab on the app store
- Every game playable offline, on every type of device
- No ads or additional subscriptions or purchase
- Family sharing included
- Available this fall, pricing TDB
- Apple TV
- Bundle everthing in the new apple tv app
- Apple TV Channels: Only pay for the channels you want
- Ad free, offline availible
- Family sharing
- Siri and reccommendations
- Available in May
- Coming to the Mac in Fall
- Coming to smart TVs, rollout by brand over the year
- Apple TV+
- Original Apple content
- Short presentations from selected shows:
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Some guy not sure Sci-Fi stories -
Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carrell Sitcom about a morining show -
Aquaman dude and someone else All characters are blind -
Kamail nanjiani True stories of immigrants in the US -
Helpster from Sesame street Coding for kids show -
Sara Barrelles Sitcom about a singer -
Oprah Documentaries
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- Coming this Fall
- No mention of pricing