Nothing is free with Apple - it's a cloistered world that we happily reside in.

Apple Music is $9.99 a month. 33 cents a day works fine for us. There are no free options with ads.

However Apple Music is part of a total package I get that includes huge iCloud storage space that we use for many things and backups. It also includes subscriptions to many, many, many major magazines and newspapers that we enjoy and free Apple TV (lost of great original series, etc.) and Apple Fitness and hundreds of games that we could care less about.

Yeah on the surface things seem expensive with Apple but, for example, their DAW Logic Pro X which is IMO on of the best on the planet (if not the best) that costs $199 for life. That includes hundreds of VST's, loops, amp sims, mic placement sims, speaker sims, pedal sims and effects galore. Probably thousands if I downloaded them all. Stuff is added to this library frequently and Logic Pro is seemlessly updated very frequently ... never charged a penny after the original purchase.

We don't need to stream music to our TV but could as we also have Apple TV. We just walk in the room and tell Siri what we want to hear and it immediate starts on the excellent sounding HomePods. Or we just say play some music and it will go for hours w/o one song that we do not like. There are a huge number of stations that are curated just for us and are updated weekly. Heck there must be 20 blues stations covering all the sub-genres.

So for us it's: 2 iPhones, AirPods (buds), Apple TV, Apple Watch, HomePod, iPad, 2 Mac computers, Apple internet router and likely stuff I've forgotten ... oh and both our vehicles are Apple Friendly--get in and say whatcha wanna hear.

I know there are around a zillion Apple haters but we, obviously, ain't amongst them! smile Pardon the ramble ...

Bud

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