The Ridiculously Simple Guide to Apple Services: A Beginners Guide to Apple Arcade, Apple Card, Apple Music, Apple TV, iCloud

By Scott La Counte

It used to be a few times a year Apple would take the stage and announce something that everyone’s head exploded over! The iPhone! The iPad! The Apple Watch! The iPod!

That still happens today, but Apple also is well aware of the reality: most people don’t upgrade to new hardware every year. How does a company make money when t

• Language: English
• Publisher: SL Editions
• Release date: Sep 20, 2019
• ISBN: 9781629178363

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Introduction

It used to be a few times a year Apple would take the stage and announce something that everyone’s head exploded over! The iPhone! The iPad! The Apple Watch! The iPod!

That still happens today, but Apple also is well aware of the reality: most people don’t upgrade to new hardware every year. How does a company make money when that happens? In a word: services.



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In the past few years (especially in 2019) Apple announced several services—things people would opt into to pay for monthly. It was a way to continue making money even when people were not buying hardware.

For it to work, Apple knew it had to be good. They couldn’t just offer a subpar service and expect people to pay because it said Apple. It had to be good. And it is!

This book will walk you through those services and show you how to get the most out of them.

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iCloud

iCloud is something that Apple doesn’t talk a lot about but is perhaps their biggest service. It’s estimated that nearly 850 million people use it. The thing about it, however, is many people don’t even know they’re using it.

What exactly is it? If you are familiar with Google Drive, then the concept is something you probably already understand. It’s an online storage locker. But it’s more than that. It is a place where you can store files, and it also syncs everything—so if you send a message on your iPhone, it appears on your MacBook and iPad. If you work on a Keynote presentation from your iPad, you can continue where you left off on your