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Apple Announces Apple News+ $9.99 a Month Subscription Service With Access to Over 300 Publications

wlad said:
They were already on thin ice, this will close them down unless Apple buys them(would be nice of them actually)
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Thin ice why?
Apple buying them? Selling their actually "America only" Apple News + in Europe as well - why not. Keeping the existing Android customers on board with what? Apple News+ on Android?
Eliminating all the not absolutely "family friendly" magazines?
 
AlbinoPigeon said:
If newspapers were smart, they would band together and develop a subscription service themselves and keep 100% of the revenues.
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They can try, but so long as they don’t control their own platform, it’s going to be an uphill battle for them.

The value that Apple brings here is visibility. The news all comes preinstalled on all Apple devices in supported countries, and you know they are going to aggressively promote this service over the coming months.

You can hate the terms dictated by Apple, and realise that it may well be the only solution left for them. The internet has made news worthless from an economic perspective, so you can really only appeal to my better nature (ie: pay to support our ability to continue creating more news) or bank on convenience as your key selling point.
 
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Pepe4life said:
$13 to read fake news written by art grads? Pass.
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Ah, the good old "everything I don't like is fake news". A staple of right-wing ideology.

By the way most people in journalism do not have art degrees, and at least they have degrees unlike the typical Republican voter who dropped out of high school.
 
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“Downloaded” a few magazines using News+ before taking a five hour flight from PDX to HNL. Very disappointed, but not surprised, that none of the downloaded magazines were available off-line. all the covers disappeared including the one marked as currently reading. The UI just kept spinning.

Back on the ground they reappeared without downloading again. Unless they fix this News+ is a no go for me.
 
mauka said:
“Downloaded” a few magazines using News+ before taking a five hour flight from PDX to HNL. Very disappointed, but not surprised, that none of the downloaded magazines were available off-line. all the covers disappeared including the one marked as currently reading. The UI just kept spinning.

Back on the ground they reappeared without downloading again. Unless they fix this News+ is a no go for me.
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I would think all these problems are just opening day jitters. Once Apple gets wind of them they should be fixed.

Just an opinion.
 
Apple is barely better than a cartel at this point. Their whole value proposition is that they own the pipeline, and are taking massive margins on content they had no stake in creating.
 
ldandp0 said:
Apple is barely better than a cartel at this point. Their whole value proposition is that they own the pipeline, and are taking massive margins on content they had no stake in creating.
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What type of garbage is this? Nobody held a gun to Condé Nast, a massive corporation, and told them to sign up for this service. There are countless competitors out there. How is that a cartel?
 
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How about I subscribe to only the magazines I want for $.04each per month? Now what would be useful.
It's amazing that the free podcast model can self sustain without a $9.99 per month subscription yet magazines can't find a way to manage.
The subscription based society is getting out of hand.
 
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griz said:
How about I subscribe to only the magazines I want for $.04each per month? Now what would be useful.
It's amazing that the free podcast model can self sustain without a $9.99 per month subscription yet magazines can't find a way to manage.
The subscription based society is getting out of hand.
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I agree that subscription models are getting completely out of control, but I find $10 a month for all that reading to be a great deal.
 
griz said:
How about I subscribe to only the magazines I want for $.04each per month? Now what would be useful.
It's amazing that the free podcast model can self sustain without a $9.99 per month subscription yet magazines can't find a way to manage.
The subscription based society is getting out of hand.
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Name a podcast that requires the resources for content of a top line newspaper or magazine?
 
ipponrg said:
That is pretty funny. If true, it’s why I love Apple software
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The only saving grace -- if there is one at this point -- is that everybody is getting free content for the next month anyway due to the promotion.

But still, this is kind of disgraceful given what you would think would be significant security safeguards.
 
AlbinoPigeon said:
If newspapers were smart, they would band together and develop a subscription service themselves and keep 100% of the revenues.
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Newspapers like the Daily Mail make far more from adverts on their web site/app than they do selling physical copies of their paper, so it makes sense to keep access available to all for free.
 
NJRonbo said:
The only saving grace -- if there is one at this point -- is that everybody is getting free content for the next month anyway due to the promotion.

But still, this is kind of disgraceful given what you would think would be significant security safeguards.
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Well, I don’t consider Apple a formidable software company as much as others. Their track record has been fairly mediocre for the caliber of a company some people rave about.

On this note, there should be no reason for them not to apply DRM to paywalled content. This situation makes it seem they take their clients for granted (at least for the short term).
 
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i subscribe to 8-10 magazines that i strictly read on my ipad (usually). too bad i cant access them via New+ using my existing login, instead of their own apps.
 
If I read more magazines, it'd be worth it. I had subscriptions to the paper and digital versions of GQ and had to force myself to read them. Not worth $9.99 for me.
 
I signed up for the 30 day trial last night. So far, the service isn't that bad. A bit too early to tell if I'll keep it past the trial, but I like it thus far.

One thing I noticed is that if you cancel your free trial, you'll lose access immediately.
 
I like it. I was on Texture/Next Issue a while back and they charged extra for some of the same content that is part of the regular Apple subscription price. It didn't have Wall Street Journal articles then, either. I am still trying to figure out how to add preferred magazines to "My Magazines", but so far, I am happy with it. I will cancel Scribd so that I don't have to increase my monthly subscription payments by much.
 
DoogH said:
Online ads are based on impressions. Magazine ads are not.
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Apple partners with Google for Apple News adverts. They also circumvent any adblock attempts.

Isn't Google that untrustworthy company Apple says won't respect your privacy? Hmmm...
 
This may have been covered upstream already, please forgive me for not reading through close to 300 comments...

I'm more inclined than not to be supportive, but at least for now, I have some issues. Maybe someone knows of a solution or can maybe confirm these are actually issues and its not just because I'm missing something?

On the Mac News+ application (MacOS 10.14.4):

1) Not all magazines are available for download for offline reading. I'm not certain, but it looks like the mags with dynamic content are unavailable.
2) Although I've read that you can click a button to save an article, the only way I found in the MacOS app was to choose "save" from the file menu (CMD-S also worked).
3) As for that, it looks like the "share" menu, although visible, is inactive on the MacOS app - I've not been able to get it to work at all.
4) Also, the other buttons ("heart" buttons) don't seem to work on the MacOS app.
5) This is the one that really ticks me off... magazines that we "follow" will auto-download if on a good WiFi connection and if there is space on the device. This utterly sucks... my wife and I follow about 40 magazines, but we have a metered connection - we really don't want to auto-download every. single. issue. of every magazine that we follow. At the very least, there should be a preference to turn that on or off - I've not found any such preference. This alone might be a show-stopper for us... it maybe an incentive for most, but not for those of us with strict bandwidth caps.

On the iOS version (on iPad, on the phone it was different):

1) I found no apparent access to the download button. I might have been looking in the wrong place.
2) While they were on the iOS version for the phone, on the iPad I found no share button or "heart" buttons.
3) The "save" feature for articles (supposedly available through the use of the share button) is not in evidence... ever. This applies to dynamic content and PDF content.

I've just started checking it out and undoubtedly I will find more, but so far this misses the mark for us. I really wanted to like it, but Texture, with all of its flaws, fits our use case better.
 
Well they officially ruined Apple News. It took me a long time of manually undoing all of their "curation" by blocking tons of worthless sources, and now the entire news feed is completely spammed with News+ tabloid content.

Great work Apple /s. Keep the sheep stupid and distracted.
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AgentAnonymous said:
Ah, the good old "everything I don't like is fake news". A staple of right-wing ideology.
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You can go away. You've grown up in the era of opinion news, where very little of anything you hear is fact or given without a slant.

Calling things fake news is harsh (sometimes) but not wholly inaccurate. Has nothing to do with any so-called "right wing" ideology.
 
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