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Well I’m sure a lot of people are excited about the new Apple services, after all, Apple is grooming them to be excited about those services. I’m cold on all of their services.
I couldn't care less about Apple TV+. An overpriced and pathetically small catalog bit a TV fluff that is clearly marketed for people 1/3 to 1/2 my age. I’m glad some people are excited about it, but I’m not. It will take years to get much of a catalog built up, and then it likely will never appeal to my age group.
I’ve never cared for Apple Music. Thankfully there are plenty of alternatives out there, but currently I don’t stream any of the paid music services.
Apple Arcade is the least attractive to me. Definitely not meant for old farts like me, even though we were around during the pinball machine heyday! Yep I dropped many a quarter into those tilt machines in the 1970s and early 1980s. But at the time my generation was inventing the home PC about that same time, the computers just didn't have the power, speed, or storage capability to compete against pinball machines. I remember seeing games like Donkey Kong and going meh! The graphics were 2D and blocky. They were certainly more exciting (less boring) than Pong had been in the 1970s, but not by much. So I never got into them. BTW, I grew up, as most people are inclined to do, and such games and pinball machines became past memories. By the time I was in graduate school I had long since outgrown such teenage activities.
And therein lies the major issue with me and the Apple of today. They are catering to the entertainment hunger of younger folks and getting away from the folks who want solid, better than average, cutting edge computers, phones, and tablets. I understand that is where they think the money is, but I don’t really care about how much money Apple makes. I care about the devices, and I prefer said devices not to be loaded down with service oriented stuff. The one thing I always hated about Windows PCs was that most of them came preloaded with a bunch of garbage apps that were difficult to get rid of and that were typically of little or no use. Most of those apps were designed to get more money out of us via subscriptions. Now Apple has gone in that direction too. That sickens me...
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