I think that when we look back at 2019’s iPhone keynote, the most consequential part of it may very well be the pricing for Apple Arcade: $4.99 per month.*
From a consumer perspective, it’s just a killer deal. Apple plans on getting more than 100 games in there eventually, but the initial game lineup looks surprisingly excellent, as Chaim Gartenberg writes.
The quality of this lineup is even better than it might appear at first blush, too. That’s because of Apple’s more stringent requirements for getting into its Netflix-for-games system. The most important one is that there are no scammy in-app purchases, but I also heard from some developers that Apple has more stringent privacy protections.
If you haven’t looked into it, you would…