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 15 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 44 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 71 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 71 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 90 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 159 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 178 days ago | 4 comments

Disney raises streaming prices for Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ (cnbc.com)

Streaming Services, Disney, Price Increases

4 points by mfiguiere 199 days ago | 2 comments