{"id":9613,"date":"2019-09-24T20:12:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T10:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=9613"},"modified":"2019-09-24T20:15:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T10:15:01","slug":"google-play-pass-is-your-android-version-of-apple-arcade-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/google-play-pass-is-your-android-version-of-apple-arcade-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Play Pass is your Android version of Apple Arcade &#038; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/24201226\/GooglePlayPass_video_thumbnail.max-1300x1300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Play Pass is a new subscription service that gives you access to more than 350 apps and games that are completely unlocked\u2014all free of ads, in-app purchases and upfront payments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nAnything Apple can do we can do better&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Google takes the recently launched Apple Arcade to task with a new &#8220;Play Pass&#8221; that adds all apps to its subscription service, not just games.<\/p>\n<p>At US$4.99\/m (~A$7.35) it&#8217;s cheaper too. Google will make it even cheaper for your first 12 months too, dropping the price to just US$1.95\/m.<\/p>\n<p>The new service is available starting this week but is limited to the US (of course). Australia is reportedly coming in the next rollout phase though so we shouldn&#8217;t have to wait too long!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Introducing\u00a0Google Play Pass\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kNl21sqNCFs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/google-play\/google-play-pass-enjoy-apps-and-games-without-ads-or-app-purchases\/\">Google Play Pass: Enjoy apps and games without ads or in-app purchases<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Play Pass is a new subscription service that gives you access to more than 350 apps and games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[122,284,482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9616,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9613\/revisions\/9616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}