Hacker News with Generative AI: Price Increases

Disney+ loses 700k subscribers following price increase (macrumors.com)
Disney+ lost 700,000 subscribers worldwide in recent months, according to Disney's earnings results for the first quarter of 2025.
Streaming, Disney, Business, Price Increases
75 points by mgh2 29 days ago | 77 comments
You don't have to pay the Microsoft 365 price increase (consumer.org.nz)
If you have a Microsoft 365 subscription, you might’ve been told your fees are going up by $5 a month or $50 a year. But the fees aren’t actually changing – you’re just being upsold. Here’s how to keep the price of your subscription the same as it’s always been.
Microsoft 365, Consumer Advice, Price Increases, Subscription Services
396 points by lancewiggs 57 days ago | 250 comments
YouTube TV is hiking prices again after denying "erroneous" report days ago (arstechnica.com)
YouTube TV, now one of the country's leading cable (or cable-ish) television providers, is starting to act like it. The service told customers in an email this morning that prices are going up in the new year, from $73 per month for the Base Plan to $83 on January 13, 2025—just days after suggesting that wasn't happening.
YouTube TV, Streaming Services, Price Increases, Business, Consumer Tech
7 points by LinuxBender 84 days ago | 2 comments
YouTube TV Price Increase: $83 per Month (cnet.com)
Streaming TV is getting more expensive.
Streaming Services, Price Increases, YouTube TV
11 points by palidanx 84 days ago | 2 comments
A 'potato cartel' conspired to make your frozen fries 47% more expensive (yahoo.com)
Multiple proposed class-action lawsuits filed this week allege that four frozen potato producers—Cavendish Farms, Lamb Weston, McCain Foods, and the J.R. Simplot Company—conspired and shared trade information to coordinate price increases in 2021.
Food Industry, Business, Antitrust, Lawsuits, Price Increases
13 points by mooreds 103 days ago | 0 comments
Apple will charge more to swap your iPhone 16 Pro battery (theverge.com)
Apple has hiked the price of its battery repair service for the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max. Now, it will cost $119 to get your battery replaced in either phone — a $20 jump over its older fee.
Apple, iPhone, Battery, Price Increases, Consumer Tech
28 points by thunderbong 172 days ago | 63 comments
Sony to raise Playstation 5 price by 20% in Japan (reuters.com)
Gaming, Hardware, Japan, Sony, Price Increases
14 points by haunter 192 days ago | 4 comments
Disney raises streaming prices for Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ (cnbc.com)
Streaming Services, Disney, Price Increases
4 points by mfiguiere 212 days ago | 2 comments