In an email to customers on Thursday, Verizon announced a $5 per month price increase affecting plans tied to Apple Watch and other connected smartwatches.
With this price change, Verizon’s smartwatch plan will increase from $10 to $15 per month on most plans. Verizon notes that if your Apple Watch plan currently includes a discount, such as the 50% promotion for customers on Unlimited Plus and Ultimate plans, the price increase will reflect that discount.
In the email being sent today, Verizon says that the price increase will let it “continue improving” its service. The changes will go into effect as of June 3:
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Just a cost of having constantly connected devices.
So little data via a watch it is ridiculous. They should be including this for free to entice customers…
This begs a question: Where is Apple in having their own low-earth-orbit satellite network offering for everyone?!?!…
Answer: While Tim Cook showed no vision for Apple’s Project Titan (AKA vehicle program), and it floundered and changed directions, experienced project creep like crazy for over a decade, coupled with Cook thinking iPad was going to be the biggest thing overtaking laptops for at least 7 years., where was the eye on AI and on the network?
Nowheresville.
Under Cook, Apple has only short-term vision now, on how to turn a quick buck on the latest large volume, lower-priced hardware sale. iPhones, AirPods, Watches, perhaps a ring?…
Meanwhile, under Cook, Apple is playing rapid catchup with AI, was not on the leadership edge of this at all, rather again, it was Elon Musk and (insert anyone else here).
Rather, Apple was hyper focused for years on AR and VR solutions for Vision Pro… To which scant marketing, massive pricing, and “there had better be” a $1,999 version of this by the 3rd generation of it’s over situation occurs.
And of course, Apple has Apple One programs, and should have Apple One Connect as an option, because Apple should have had – by now – it’s own low-earth-orbit sataliet solution taking on Musk’s Starlink, but of course, Apple’s got nothing but a weak tier 2 partnership Globalstar…
One can get unlimited Internet from Starling for $120 a month. It’s not as cheap as fiber providers nor as fast (but 150mbps is as fast as most 5G phone networks are running, and it’s faster than my home streaming which has zero issues).
Thus, one would think Apple could provide a family plan for home, iPhone, whatever, all for one affordable all-in-one price with iCloud goodies etc…
Um, nope. Cook is likely too afraid the carriers would drop Apple, and of course, this is Cook and crew now being owned by carriers – exactly where Jobs would have jumped at the chance to control Apple’s own destiny and screw the carriers, and eventually put the screw to them instead.
Cook’s time of managing the campus is over. Time for him to step aside and for a visionary to take the helm.
I agree but there are no mercenary visionary CEOs available. You can count the number of visionary CEOs in major companies on one hand and they all founded their own companies, they don’t want to manage someone else’s creation as an employee.
If there ever was a moment for Apple it was when Musk proposed making Tesla’s sale to Apple conditional on him becoming CEO. Of course Tim Cook couldn’t stand for that and Apple’s Board didn’t have the foresight. Apple with Musk at the helm (at his prime) fused with Tesla over the past decade would have been a $4+ trillion company by now.
Time to turn Verizon, Verizon. And get rid of Crim Crook as well, he’s just marking time. Bring back Scott Foreskin, at least he had some foresight to forestall the current rot. F Jony Ive, he’s gone, too. Fusterclucks!
That got F-ing autocorrect. Time to turn Verizon, VerizOFF.