Just an in-the-weeds comment about market research: I’d say the poll results are highly dependent on the pool of potential respondents and who responds so I don’t feel there is a “right” or “correct” level.
Specific to the current poll, I believe that TBT users represent a much narrower demographic than Apple users in general. Currency exchange rates and regional differences between all-in costs for subscriptions (for example, my city heavily taxes mobile phone service) also are a confounding factor.
Ok, thanks @Halfsmoke and @Shamino. Since I don’t do any streaming or online storage and found myself in the 50-99 bracket I was a bit surprised. Maybe I messed up the math, included some as annual costs that should have been monthly. Maybe it’s the internet and phone costs I was thinking of as generally 50+ per month in themselves but I think Mr. Engst said those were not included in the poll.
UK here… so in GB£ (all with the dreaded 20% VAT included, except Criterion, lol!):
main [£]:
• 1.79 – HP Instant Ink, 10pps/m [unused roll-over up to 30pp]
• 8.99 – iCloud+, 2TB storage
• 7.08 – Setapp, 2-Macs legacy plan, paid yrly (85.00/y)
• 1.76 – 1Password, paid yrly (21.11/y)
entertainment [£]:
• 1.83 – iTunes Match, paid yrly (21.99/y)
• 7.42 – Apple TV, paid yrly (89.00/y)
• 4.17 – ScreenCastsOnline, paid yrly (50.00/y)
• 12.99 – Netflix, HD/2screens [NB: not the 18.99 UHD/4screens plan!]
• 7.92 – Amazon Prime, paid yrly (95.00/y) [NB: no, I don’t pay the extra 3/m to remove sodding ads!]
• 7.99 – Mubi, paid yrly (95.88/y)
• 5.42 – BFI Player, paid yrly (65.00/y) [BFI Player Classics in the US]
• 6.50 – Criterion Channel, [via VPN to the US!] paid yrly (78.00/y)
= 73.86/m / 886.32/y
One thing I realise is I’m quite lazy so can’t be bothered to chop and change video subs all the time like others do.
Also, I remember when I’d go to Blockbuster and physically rent a few DVDs most weeks (as a film fan) and would easily spend ~£20 each time on 3 or 4 discs (~£80/mth!). So when I look at my streaming costs, it’s comparable in cost to what I spent then (but inflation means it’s cheaper, of course!), at the expense of not having everything ever made available to me a la carte like rental may have provided if they had the titles. But that’s impossible anyway if you want to stay non-pirate, as one could add another ten streaming services and still not have access to everything! Just too much content being made these days, due to digital production and distribution.
…oh, then there’s…cough…my Plex library of ‘obtained’ content.
I have found this spreadsheet template immensely helpful, because it does all the math for you — including automatic conversion between annual/monthly.
