Apple TV+ Launches November 1; Subs Will Cost $5 a Month | WIRED
The thing that matters most: Apple TV+ will launch November 1 and cost $4.99 a month for the whole family. The service will launch in a few countries with a limited number of shows, and both the territory and the lineup will expand quickly after that. Most of the series will be made available with three episodes to start, then settling into a weekly release schedule.The company is also bundling one free year the service with every purchase of an iPhone, iPad, or Mac. It will be available through the Apple TV set-top box and also through Apple's revamped TV app on iOS devices, as well as on MacOS beginning with Catalina.All well and good, and in general keeping with the reporting over the past month or so. However, the next phase of the streaming war has come into much sharper focus since Apple's March event, and not in ways that make TV+'s road easier. Disney+ has detailed its own launch date (November 12) and price ($6.99), as well as a fairly broad swath of its content pipeline, which already runs through Disney, Star Wars, Pixar, and other fruitful IP territory. WarnerMedia's own service might not be coming until early next year, but it now has a name—HBO Max—and a not-just-Friends slate of its own.