It's Show Time Event: Updates on the Apple's March Event

Here is the most exciting thing happened. Apple’s “It’s Show Time” Event

Every time this Event comes with a lot of exciting and this year too it came with enthusiasm and excitements. This excitement is due to the launch of new products, services, and technologies.

There are new services and technologies this time Apple has introduced us and said to launch them on this fall 2019.

Read on to know more about the most important announcements made in this march event held on 25th March 2019.

So which are the services and technologies announced in the event? Let’s check it out.

Apple TV+

The product that caught everyone’s eye and Apple launched is Apple TV+ which is the paid, ad-free video portal service for its own original movies and TV shows. Still, Apple has not revealed the price neither the company has revealed its first launch dates or months. Even though they mentioned that it will be released in this fall 2019. 

Believe it or not, Apple TV+ has big names attached to it.

Finally, Apple is entering into the streaming field with its own shows and movies on newly announced Apple TV+.

Apple is on a path of making some numbers of original TV shows and movies which includes Amazing Stories from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, The Morning show starring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston and the show named “SEE” starring Jason Momoa, and Alfre Woodard.

With these stars, Hollywood A-listers are already on the board to develop new content for the new services. Hearing about these many big names, it's hard to avoid to get excited. Anybody can get excited.

The Big Question is, Will it be able to compete with other streaming giants?

This question is about the streaming giants which includes Netflix, Hulu, the upcoming Disney+, and many more. Will Apple TV+ be able to compete with those giants? As of right now, there is no pricing information and neither they revealed the information about the number of shows and series (apart from the ones announced). It’s difficult to tell about how many subscribers Apple TV+ can garner at the time of launch. But one thing is for sure that Apple has pulled out all the celebrities to generate the buzz and therefore this made the audience more intrigued.

Apple Arcade

Apple Arcade is the world’s first game subscription services for mobile desktops and living rooms(TV).

With approx. 300,000 free and paid games, the App store is the world’s most successful and vibrant gaming platform. Hundreds of audience who are avid gamers enjoy playing free games, supported by advertising or in-app purchases. Paid games are critically acclaimed and beloved by Gamers but competing the paid games with free ones is difficult. With this reason, even the best of these games have reached to the smaller audience. Apple Arcade consists of the simplicity of a single subscription, will help these games to reach out more than 1 billion gaming customers.

Apple Arcade is the perfect appreciation and complement to the already popular games(free + Paid) on the app store, encouraging the players of all ages.

The benefit to using Apple Arcade is, the user needs to download the game, but the user would be able to stop the game on one device and would be able to resume from that position on another device.

This Service will be available this fall in 150 countries.

Apple News+

Apple announced to take over its news app, which when Cook said is the number one news app in the world. But he did not clear out whether the statement is under the accordance of a number of readers or downloads. What's new now is the app is adding 300 magazine subscriptions for the monthly subscription price of $9.99.

At a glance what you would be getting is:

• Subscription: $9.99 per month
• Family sharing features available
• Get the subscription wherever you go
• Restricted tracking, customized content and Interactive Photography
• With this, Apple also mentioned that the app would not allow the advertisers to track readers.

Apple Card

Partnering with Goldman Sachs and MasterCard, Apple introduced its own credit card called Apple Card. The card would be living in the Apple wallet. It offers to instill on how you’re spending your money and offers cash back too. The cash back is transferred directly to Apple pay cash card.

Apple cards would be accepted wherever MasterCard is accepted. If you are a real-life user, you can also opt for titanium card from Apple with 1% of reward cash back.

MasterCard of Apple actually has 2% of rewarding the cash back but if you purchase something this cash back is about 3%.

At glance it will provide you:

• The app will provide real cash rewards to users each day
• Through machine learning, it can show where your money is spent
• Stores all payment methods
• To magnify the security, the titanium card has only your name

Apple TV Channels

Apple is updating its existing TV apps and adding the capabilities to sign into your various cables and streaming subscription services. It's the single place where all the content from your subscription services can live beside the Apple services.

Apple has tried to redesign the TV apps to look similar to other popular streaming services like Netflix with vertical carousels of content and recommended videos. The app consists of tabs on the top for watch now, movies, TV shows, Family and library. The shows which you have subscripted including - Hulu, Prime video except for Netflix will appear in the app as if all are the part of the same services.

The app update will be available by the May and the Mac user will be introduced with the fully new app within this Fall.

Conclusion

With this, it seems like Apple has explored all the possible domains within the entertainment industry. If you have noticed, Apple has announced the subscription service only for Apple News+. It might give some updates if this changes.