App Store ads, Apple Music and TV+ price hike, first iOS 16.2 beta
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
The App Store ads expansion faces backlash, but it’s unclear whether Apple cares. iOS 16.2 beta gives us our first look at Freeform app. Moreover, macOS Ventura is released to the public — Zac and Benjamin share their hands-on with Stage Manager. And, we also discuss the surprise price hikes to Apple Music and Apple TV+.
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| 0:00.0 | There's some new stuff on the app store. |
| 0:07.0 | Well, new, ads at least. |
| 0:11.0 | New, new ads at least. |
| 0:13.6 | New, new recommendations. |
| 0:16.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:17.8 | You might also like, but you won't like. |
| 0:20.6 | Do you, do you open the app store on your phone? |
| 0:22.3 | Like, like, very okay. but you don't might. Do you open the app store on your phone? |
| 0:25.4 | Like, very occasionally. |
| 0:26.4 | Yeah. I don't really like browse the today tab |
| 0:29.5 | or the games or the charts or anything. |
| 0:31.1 | Like, sometimes I need to do something so I'll search to try and find |
| 0:37.1 | one you know something to help me but that's I don't like browser that's for sure. |
| 0:41.3 | Yeah I mean for me it could be like a |
| 0:43.2 | panel on the settings app or it's just like here's your apps you've downloaded before |
| 0:47.4 | because like you just don't very add much to the rotation. |
| 0:51.0 | Same and like the one thing I would go to the apps were a lot to do before was I would I enjoyed |
| 0:57.6 | updating my apps but then they made that so difficult. |
| 1:00.9 | But it still if you do find like it you know it used to be a tab to update and now it's tap your face and then pull down |
| 1:07.8 | Poultry tool to refresh on a on a card UI so you can actually pull the car out of the way if you pull too hard or |
| 1:16.1 | the wrong spot. But when I do do that, there's usually like 30 updates. |
| 1:21.2 | Yeah, I see that as well. |
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