1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,760 In a way, owning something connected to the internet is a lot like owning a car. 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:08,480 It's not enough to just drop $25,000 on the vehicle and drive off. 3 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:12,160 You've also got to pay for gas, insurance, oil changes, and 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:15,120 dank paint jobs just to be able to keep using it. 5 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:23,520 And so it is with a phone. You can get online, sure, but increasingly more and more of the good stuff is hidden behind pay 6 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:28,320 walls. And now there are two such options that are being provided directly by the phone's 7 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:33,760 operating system makers to unlock things that are literally already installed on your phone. 8 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:37,680 I'm talking, of course, about Google One and Apple One. 9 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:41,920 Yeah, it actually does kind of remind me of the time the CFL had two different teams, 10 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:48,880 both called the Rough Riders. So what do you get with these One services and are they worth paying for? 11 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:54,160 Let's start by looking at Google One, since it was the first to appear on the scene back in 2018. 12 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:57,920 Wait, wait a second. Apple copied Google at something? 13 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:02,240 Anyway, at first it was merely an expanded cloud storage subscription, 14 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:06,800 and it still does offer quite a bit more storage than Google's free storage option, 15 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:13,600 if you're willing to fork over the cash. But now Google seems to be marketing it as a way to get extra little niceties 16 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,440 with the cheapest tier, just $2 a month at the time we wrote this video, 17 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:23,040 giving you access to Google experts to reduce confusion every time they mess with their UI, 18 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:27,760 along with extra member benefits such as hotel discounts. 19 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:31,200 More expensive tiers also give you cash back in the Google Store, 20 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:35,120 as well as a Google VPN that is Android only for the time being. 21 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:39,040 Of course, signing up for a service that promises unspecified benefits 22 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:43,840 means that Google could put a growing number of things behind its paywall as time goes on. 23 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:49,040 In fact, it's already come out that members will get three free months of Stadia Pro. 24 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:53,120 Additionally, an option in the pre-installed Google Photos app to use the 25 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:59,280 ColourPop filter on photos without depth information will only be available to Google One subscribers. 26 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:04,080 To be fair to Google, this option was not already previously available for free, 27 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:08,960 but given how plenty of cloud services have put once free content behind paywalls, 28 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:14,960 it's worth keeping an eye out for free Android features possibly becoming subscription-based in the coming years. 29 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:20,240 Let's switch gears now and talk about Apple One, which only debuted in 2020, 30 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:24,720 and in our opinion is a bit more appropriately named since it attempts to be a 31 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:30,880 many things in one kind of service. You do get expanded storage on iCloud, similar to Google's offering, 32 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:36,000 but there are other services bundled that you might be more used to paying separate monthly fees for, 33 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,520 like Apple Music, Apple TV Plus, and Apple Arcade. 34 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:44,000 Unsurprisingly, it's more expensive than Google One's most barebones offering, 35 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:49,040 but at $15 a month, it is cheaper than buying each of those services separately. 36 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:52,080 That is assuming, of course, that you wanted all of them in the first place. 37 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:56,400 Apple Arcade subscribers, uh, raise your hands? Yeah, okay. 38 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,440 So what we're seeing then is two pretty different models. 39 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:03,840 Google seems to be trying to expand the functionality of core phone features 40 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:08,080 and get you to pay for it, while it looks like Apple is attempting to push more people 41 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:12,800 to start using their additional services like TV Plus and Apple Arcade, 42 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:16,720 since iCloud and Apple Music already have very large user bases. 43 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:21,280 So offering those as part of a discounted bundle could help their less popular services 44 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:28,480 be propped up by their more popular ones. Apple has also seen some of its investors get upset over how sales for the iPhone 45 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:32,640 and its associated services have been stagnating a little bit lately. 46 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:35,920 So a big drive to draw more people into their ecosystem 47 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:39,680 and then lock them in with a suite of cloud services isn't too surprising. 48 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:44,800 Has it worked on you guys? Or have you gone the other direction and purchased a Google One subscription? 49 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,840 Or do you just refuse to buy a subscription to use your phone? 50 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:52,960 Let us know in the comments and if you'll excuse me, I have to go sign up for a Peacock Premium membership 51 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:55,760 for the WAN Show over there that I want to watch. Thanks. 52 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:01,440 Thanks for watching guys. You can like or dislike. 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