What are Apple Arcade and Apple One? What are the advantages and disadvantages?

What exactly are Apple Arcade and Apple One services? What are the advantages and disadvantages of subscribing to Apple Arcade?

Although it doesn't seem like it's been too long since Apple first announced its game subscription service with the promise of new games every week with no ads or in-app purchases, Apple Arcade has been around for a long time. After a few years, Apple Arcade now has more than 200 games. Both new, exclusive games and timeless classics are on this list.

Currently, Apple Arcade has a monthly subscription price of $34.99 ($4.99 in the US), with one month free when you first subscribe. You can also share your Apple Arcade subscription with up to five other family members thanks to Apple's Family Sharing feature. So if you share the bill with your family you can get a pretty good deal.

Another great option, the Apple One , is currently not available in Turkey. Apple One, a bundle subscription option for all of Apple's subscription services, starts at $14.95 per month and promises 5GB of storage on Apple Arcade as well as Apple TV+, Apple Music, Apple Fitness+ and iCloud. So, it stands out as a great option for people who want to subscribe to multiple Apple services.

Becoming a member of Apple Arcade: Benefits

One of the big advantages of Apple Arcade is that you can play the games on almost any Apple device. Apple supports Apple Arcade on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices running at least iOS 13 or iPadOS13. You can even use Apple Arcade on your Apple TV as long as you have at least tvOS 13 installed. Also, any Mac computer with at least macOS 10.15 can play any Apple Arcade game.

Besides that, you can keep the same progress on all your devices. So, once you start playing a game in Apple Arcade, you can start a game on your Apple TV, switch to your iPhone and finish the game on your Mac without losing your saved files.

You can also play any game offline. You can be anywhere in the world without an internet connection and spend time with any Apple Arcade game installed on your device.

Of course, it doesn't matter how many useful features any game subscription service has if the game options aren't good. Fortunately, we can say that the game options in Apple Arcade are mostly good.

Over time, Apple continued to add many new games to Apple Arcade. On the App Store you can find both new Apple Arcade exclusives and popular classics like Solitaire, Chess and Tiny Crossword. There are more than 200 games divided into Arcade Originals and Timeless Classics.

There's also a category called App Store Greats, which, as you might guess, contains some of the best-loved options on the App Store like Gris+, My Talking Tom+, and Monument Valley 2+.

The biggest change in this category is that none of these games offer in-game purchases or display ads like they do in the App Store. That is, you can just focus on playing and winning, without micro-transactions or annoying ads.

Subscribing to Apple Arcade: Disadvantages

You can also encounter old games that you have played many times before on the platform. Also, if you just want to play older games, you can play them without subscribing to any service with different payment options to play them. If you're only interested in a few games, in the long run, it may be cheaper to buy the games individually.

The biggest downside to Apple Arcade is that none of these games are really yours. As with other subscription services, you won't be able to play any Apple Arcade games if you decide to cancel the service.