This is Recode Media with me, Peter Kafka, coming to nearly live on tape for a special, almost an emergency edition of this podcast. Welcome. Apple finally announced their plans for Apple TV Plus. If you listen to this podcast, we been talking about Apple TV Plus for a long time.

Now we know a lot more about it.

We're going to talk about it in just one second.

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Yeah. here with the Philin co-host Zachary Mack. Welcome, Zach. What's going on? This is your first

box media podcast network appearance? That is correct. Yes, it is. Congratulations. You and I are

going to have a discussion about Apple TV Plus. I watched a little bit of the keynote. You

watched more of the keynote. Let's get into it. You got questions for me. Yeah. So, first of all,

what happened today? Today is the annual fall Apple product launch dedicated to iPhones as all fall product Apple events are iPhones, iPhones, iPhones.

Apple also talked about some other stuff like a gaming service, five bucks a month.

It kind of looks interesting. And they finally pulled the sheets back on Apple TV Plus.

For real,

as you recall, they did a partial reveal in March that left us with a lot of questions.

Right. And those details are what? Like, what's the release date? How much is this thing going to cost?

November 1st. You can start getting Apple TV Plus, very soon. Not coincidentally. It's less than

two weeks before Disney launches Disney Plus. And

Apple TV Plus is going to cost you $0 if you buy a new piece of Apple hardware. This

year, it'll be free for a year. If you don't want to buy Apple products, that's an iPhone,

Apple TV, a Mac, whatever, you can pay Apple five bucks a month for the service,

which makes it, I think, the cheapest priced streaming service out there right now.

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