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Well, it ended up being what I thought. A News service, a Game service, a new credit card and a TV service, all with their own subscription. I'll focus mostly on the TV service.
Apple will have two different things with regards to the TV Service. First is the TV app, which appears to be basic the same as the current TV app with some minor enhancements. You can watch all your programs via the TV app. By all your programs, they mean anything you bought from the iTunes store, rented from the iTunes store, plus the various streaming services, i.e. hulu, HBO, Showtime, Prime Video, ESPN etc. All that functionality is already in the TV app. The big news is that they are putting the TV app on smart TV's, roku and some other non apple devices. Doesn't matter to me, but it will introduce the TV app to many who don't have Apple TV.
The second piece is a new services or channel that will show Apple generated shows, i.e. something similar to HBO and Showtime. Included in this is Steven Spielberg rebooting Amazing Stories, plus a number of big names such as Ron Howard and Ophrah. Can't say that any made me say, "Oh yes", like Amazon's LOTR series.
I get that Apple has been preaching subscription services for a while, but while I might pay $10 for iCloud and iMusic, you run into the same problem that premium services have, it all adds up. I suspect that if there is one or two shows that I actually want to watch, then I'll be able to buy them on iTunes.
For the rest of the stuff, the news doesn't appeal to me. I already subscribe to the WSJ and to a couple of magazines via Zinio. Arcade might be interesting, though I'm not a big game player and really only play one game with any regularity. The credit card might be interesting. I have an Amazon credit card that I only use for Amazon and a credit card that I use with Apple Pay might be interesting, especially if they do have advanced purchase management.
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