Apple Services

MAGAZINES, STREAMING, CARD AND ARCADE

- Nidhi Singal

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OST MASTERING the hardware – be it smartphones, tablets or even laptops, Apple is all set to launch a range of digital media services. At a special event at the Apple Campus, the Cupertino giant announced a range of new services – across gaming, content streaming, news reading, and payments. This isn’t Apple’s first attempt in the services domain. A decade ago, Apple successfully launched the App Store for downloading apps, offers Apple Music and iTunes subscription and more. Here’s a quick glance at all the new services Apple will be launching this fall.

Apple Arcade

With nearly 300,000 free and paid games listed on the App Store, Apple is launching a new gaming subscription service. The Apple Arcade will have access to over 100 new and exclusive games, including original releases from renowned creators Hironobu Sakaguchi, Ken Wong, Will Wright to name a few.

Users with Apple Arcade subscription will be able to try any game from a collection of titles. Focusing on users’ privacy, the games will be ad-free and ad-tracking free. Subscribers will be able to access Arcade games across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. AppleArcade will launch in fall 2019 in more than 150 countries and India is likely to be a part of the list.

Apple says that free games, supported by advertising or in-app purchases, are enjoyed by hundreds of millions of players around the world. Paid games are often critically acclaimed and beloved by the people who play them, but competing with free is hard, so even the best of these games have only reached a smaller audience. With the simplicity of a single subscription, Apple Arcade will bring games like these to the App Store’s more than 1 billion gaming customers.