Apple Special Event (Event for Apple Services)

Apple TV, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, Apple News+ and Apple Card just launched.

Dinesh Kachhot
3 min readMar 25, 2019
It’s Show Time!

We all are obsessed with apple ecosystem. This event is all about Apple services. Apple this time come up with Special Event for Apple Services. Followings are the major updates.

Apple News+

Apple News Plus is a subscription offering for magazines, which is launching with over 300 publications as well as digital subscriptions to newspapers like the Wall Street Journal.

More secure and private as apple use on device recommendations so Apple doesn’t know you’re reading, and advertisers can’t track you.

Apple News Plus costs $9.99 per month, with access available to your whole family under your subscription, first month free.

Apple News is already in US, will launch for Canada now, will be available for Australia and UK later this year.

Apple Card — A virtual and physical credit card

Apple card is a virtual credit card which you will get while signup, which is by mean your iPhone is your credit card. Issued with the help of Goldman Sachs and Master card.

Apple Card will help you have a healthier financial life by showing you exactly where you made each transaction via a Maps tie-up, and showing you break-downs of your spending. The smart smart statement will show you how much, where and which categories you paid. Apple used Machine Learning to get meaningful transaction name rather then encrypted names.

Daily Cash — it’s a daily cash-back reward
2% on every purchase
3% apple stuff purchase

No Fees — No late fee — No penalty — No Service charge

Apple provide physical Apple Card where Apple Pay is not supported. 1% daily cash-back. It’s titanium. It’s laser etched. There is no card number, no CVV security code, no expiry date, no signature on card.

Apple Arcade

In AppStore there are many free and paid games, but the free games are more famous and more downloads, it’s because all players can’t afford to purchase these many games.

Apple came up with idea to subscription once and play over 100 games free. Coming this fall, pricing are yet to come.

  • Offline support
  • Family sharing
  • 150+ countries to be launched.

Apple TV

All new Apple TV app will be launch.

Apple TV (the app) will run on iPhone, Apple TV, iPad from May, via a software update and to the Mac in autumn or ‘Fall’ if you are American.

Apple TV will also be available for some smart TVs, like Samsung, LG, Sony and Vizio. Roku and Amazon FireTV will also be rollout Apple TV.

  • Only pay what you want
  • All in one app
  • On Demand and ad-free
  • Online or Offline
  • Family sharing

That’s it will keep you posted.

Apple TV+

Apple TV+ is an on-demand, subscription service that will be available on Apple TV (box) in 100+ countries from May 2019.

Apple will now making TV series and TV shows with some industry leading story tellers and actors/actresses.

Flutter Savvy can find first flutter event keynotes here.

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Dinesh Kachhot

iOS Developer 👨🏻‍💻 Flutter and React Native 💙