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Apple Announces Apple News+ $9.99 a Month Subscription Service With Access to Over 300 Publications
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Well for me the value is tremendous. I just canceled EIGHT magazine subscriptions that are all covered by News+ and it will also reduce to near zero the number of one off issues of magazines I buy at the store that I don't subscribe to.
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Ouch the app kinda sucks.
1. Performance is slow and framerate stutters... on a brand new iPad Pro 11 inch with the A12X! Huh?
2. There doesn't seem to be an option to view the magazines as printed, ie. with the identical page layout to the actual publication... instead you MUST accept the heavily reformatted, and to me uglier, reformat of the magazine with some poor font choices in the table of contents etc.
3. There is no easy way to "favorite" magazines. The only way I can find right now to use the search tab to make a magazine appear by name then click the heart icon... if you are browsing the magazines by category, or alphabetically, or just see one promoted on the front page of the magazine section... you can select and read the issue but there are no options to favorite the magazine ANYWHERE. You can only access the favorite icon from the a text search. So, so weird.
4. Your magazines appear in a tiny strip across the top of the screen and you can swipe sideways across them to view more of your selections but it is beyond ugly and tiny leaving the bottom 80% of your screen underutilized. So un-Apple, viewing your list of titles is UGLY.
5. Right now we are only seeing the current issues. Ummmm? Fine but what happens next month, do the current issues disappear from our iPads to be automatically replaced by the new issues and I can't refer back? That would SUCK. I don't care if this starts "today" but moving forward they should always have the last 6-12 months available! I see absolutely no interface that is prepared for this right now.
The whole thing seems like the deals were brokered then they started working on the app like 3 days ago. It's a mess and embarrassing to Apple IMHO, hopefully this gets resolved quickly because I LOVE THE CONTENT, but hate the way it is presented and accessed.
THAT SAID...
Ouch the app kinda sucks.
1. Performance is slow and framerate stutters... on a brand new iPad Pro 11 inch with the A12X! Huh?
2. There doesn't seem to be an option to view the magazines as printed, ie. with the identical page layout to the actual publication... instead you MUST accept the heavily reformatted, and to me uglier, reformat of the magazine with some poor font choices in the table of contents etc.
3. There is no easy way to "favorite" magazines. The only way I can find right now to use the search tab to make a magazine appear by name then click the heart icon... if you are browsing the magazines by category, or alphabetically, or just see one promoted on the front page of the magazine section... you can select and read the issue but there are no options to favorite the magazine ANYWHERE. You can only access the favorite icon from the a text search. So, so weird.
4. Your magazines appear in a tiny strip across the top of the screen and you can swipe sideways across them to view more of your selections but it is beyond ugly and tiny leaving the bottom 80% of your screen underutilized. So un-Apple, viewing your list of titles is UGLY.
5. Right now we are only seeing the current issues. Ummmm? Fine but what happens next month, do the current issues disappear from our iPads to be automatically replaced by the new issues and I can't refer back? That would SUCK. I don't care if this starts "today" but moving forward they should always have the last 6-12 months available! I see absolutely no interface that is prepared for this right now.
The whole thing seems like the deals were brokered then they started working on the app like 3 days ago. It's a mess and embarrassing to Apple IMHO, hopefully this gets resolved quickly because I LOVE THE CONTENT, but hate the way it is presented and accessed.
Before you delete the apps for your other magazines, I’d recommend comparing the content to Apple's. Not only is the New Yorker a totally different format, it’s completely missing entire features.
If its just magazines you want then you want the Readly app - £10 a month for a huge selection of magazines.
i mean the deal is outstanding, but the app is just so bad. and magazine typography and how it is different from magazine to magazine is what makes them enjoyable to read and now it seems like all the stories from magazines are run through the same processor so Outside, Time, New Yorker, Cosmo whatever all look like the same font, same format wall of text with pictures inserted randomly between paragraphs. in other online magazine apps i've always had an option to read it exactly as formatted, almost like a .pdf of the magazine, and on an iPad i've always chosen that option and enjoyed it. i could understand on a small iPhone but there is no reason not to at least have the option on the iPad.
I would like to know more about the WSJ portion. My WSJ subscription just went to $20/month, and I can only access through a browser. If I have full access to at least the day's articles, I would be tempted. I have an iPad 10.5" screen, so large enough to use.
That doesn't sound pleasurable at all.
While I haven't looked at the new app, I agree with you. Magazine layout is unique to each publication and should remain so. Otherwise, you aren't really getting the magazine. You are paying for a one-size fits all pdf type reader.
First of all this is blatantly made up.
Secondly - "the WSJ will provide only "a specially curated collection of general interest news from The Wall Street Journal" to Apple News Plus subscribers" - you will only get a selection of articles, not the full WSJ. The Wall Street Journal without the financial news is not the Wall Street Journal. Bit premature to cancel unless you only buy the WSJ for the politics and general news sections
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Just $10 to give it a try and see whether it is sufficient to replace my $20 WSJ subscription. Where the WSJ was REALLY expensive is if you wanted access via their APP on the iPad.
There’s a good article on WSJ.
“Journal executives said they weren’t concerned about existing subscribers canceling service to shift to the Apple service, because the two offerings will be fundamentally different. The Apple app will surface stories thought to be of interest to a general reader—that could be national news, politics, sports and leisure news, but also some business news, people familiar with the situation said. The paper’s entire slate of business and financial news will also be searchable within the app, but the thinking is that most users won’t consume much beyond what is actively presented to them.”
Also, articles are limited to the past three days.
One thing missing now is the market data. Stock prices, bond yields, commodities prices, etc. Almost all that is available elsewhere though.
So you will have access to substantially all content for three days, but some of it is going to be buried in the app in the hopes existing users won’t go past the top story page and hold onto their individual subscription for the promoted business content, digital print replica, lengthy archive, and premium features like WSJ Magazine.
Give the one month free trial a shot and see if it meets your needs.
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People seem to be making the mistake of equating free online news sources, most of which are tripe and riddled with advertisements, and even televised news, which is also frequently poor quality, with actual dedicated news publications which charge to access their content. The potential to pay one low price to access more than one of these products (not even considering all the magazines offered) makes this subscription very cost-effective for people who want to read high quality news.
Yes, you have it completely correct. Tim CrOoK himself sorts through the news daily, hand-selecting the content which he desires you to consume and forwards it on to your iPhone in order to brainwash you.
Do you know how you sound?
Do you have any possible evidence to support your accusation of lying? Or are you just a fool?
Yes, you have it completely correct. Tim CrOoK himself sorts through the news daily, hand-selecting the content which he desires you to consume and forwards it on to your iPhone in order to brainwash you.
Do you know how you sound?
Do you have any possible evidence to support your accusation of lying? Or are you just a fool?
Family Sharing is supposed to be included with News+, but it’s not listed under Family Sharing for me. I don’t know if it’s just during the free trial or what, but I can’t share it with my family members.
Yah I would be likely to use News+ for the most part just to access the occasional article in a broad range of magazines to which I've no intention of subscribing independently. It will be worth it just for that.
It's a pain when someone tells you about a piece in some paywalled magazine and you might be able to read a few pieces "for free"... but it's a site you don't generally use so you might have to tweak your script settings and blah blah blah,,,, all for some site you're not going to revisit and sometimes for a piece that halfway through you wonder why your friend thought you'd like it anyway. News+ would earn its rent in a week. 
I've no plan to ditch subscriptions that I already have to a number of papers and magazines. I'm used to their formats in the own apps and will not likely bother looking at them in News+.
Yes I agree. I am amazed at the number of writers who get their stories at the top of the food chain but have no idea of how to write - and these are people who appear by virtue of their social media postings to be recently graduated from college. Grammar errors, spelling errors, and just plain lack of good writing skills seem to dominate nowadays. And no one seems to care, either.
Here’s a list of magazines available now.
https://www.macstories.net/news/a-c...s-available-for-apple-news-in-the-u-s-so-far/
Safe to say you have no counterargument whatsoever.
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And you're basing that claim on what exactly?
I read that as well after I canceled. I'll have to see how much of the paper they actually include in News+. If they leave out articles I consider important then I'll revert back to my direct WSJ subscription. Nothing ventured nothing gained, nor lost.
Here is a full list of what is available.
https://www.macstories.net/news/a-c...s-available-for-apple-news-in-the-u-s-so-far/
Thank you for the link. There are some good magazines on the list.
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And thank you too. Much appreciated.
For $10 a month, that is a rather anemic list, especially with the ANF format with several magazines.
I had something similar with a few digital magazines I subscribed to. Being able to read each issue was a nightmare, even with the Mac. I quit even trying after a while. If the ANF is anything like that, I won't waste my time.
I had something similar with a few digital magazines I subscribed to. Being able to read each issue was a nightmare, even with the Mac. I quit even trying after a while. If the ANF is anything like that, I won't waste my time.