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Apple News+ Gains Recipes, Restaurant Reviews, and More in iOS 18.4
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I'm currently nearing the end of a free trial of News+ thanks an iPad Pro purchase. This is a step in the right direction but there's a long way to go. My suggestions in case the News+ team reads these comments:
1. It's understandable that Apple started with legacy media for News+ but does anyone under the age of 65 consume legacy media? Apple should add alternative and B2B media to News+, especially publications that are behind a paywall.
2. The Stocks app should let you choose your sources. This should include primary sources like SEC filings, earnings calls, analyst reports, etc. The Stocks app should also expand its coverage of crypto.
3. Ideally, sources that you could choose would include social media but those companies might not grant a license except perhaps Reddit. Instead, News+ should include a social network of its own. News+ subscribers would get special tools and perhaps might be the only people permitted to post.
1. It's understandable that Apple started with legacy media for News+ but does anyone under the age of 65 consume legacy media? Apple should add alternative and B2B media to News+, especially publications that are behind a paywall.
2. The Stocks app should let you choose your sources. This should include primary sources like SEC filings, earnings calls, analyst reports, etc. The Stocks app should also expand its coverage of crypto.
3. Ideally, sources that you could choose would include social media but those companies might not grant a license except perhaps Reddit. Instead, News+ should include a social network of its own. News+ subscribers would get special tools and perhaps might be the only people permitted to post.
I enjoyed free trial but felt it was a bit pricey for how much time I have to just read the news
I think it is good value for the number of single subscription it can replace
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As I was composing this I went to check the price again and low and behold, another free month trial
Now just let me mix and match items in my Apple One subscription. I’ll drop Arcade for News+.
For sure
I pay for Apple Music and sometimes Apple TV
if I could bundle those with Apple News they might get me
I have no need of Apple Arcade or cloud storage
Tried Apple News for three months with a free trial, cancelled it after two. The negativity and gross sensationalism of the articles that were constantly recommended and plastered on my lock screen were beyond disgusting.
Why the algo thinks I really wanted to learn about a mother and three small children getting brutally murdered by their estranged father while I am literally at my youngest's birthday party is beyond me, but that service is broken and guilty of the worst sort of click farming.
Why the algo thinks I really wanted to learn about a mother and three small children getting brutally murdered by their estranged father while I am literally at my youngest's birthday party is beyond me, but that service is broken and guilty of the worst sort of click farming.
Why not just break Recipes out to its own app? It seems a bit odd to merge news and recipes together... "breaking news: a city-killer asteroid has an 11.7% chance of striking Earth next month... and here's a recipe to some delicious, quick & easy snacks to enjoy while watching the fiery show."
Curated content is fine and all but this seems like it should be its own app to me. Else, why don't we just fold Music & podcasts into this too... maybe movie trailers... tax prep software... todo lists... etc.
There is always a tension about these things. I understand the “Food” section in News because this is a common lifestyle feature in most newspapers. It also makes sense because periodicals like Food & Wine and Bon Appétit are featured. I could do without web-based homecook-recipe sites like All Recipes being featured. Search for recipes on Google is quite useless because of the prevalence of home cooks whose taste buds function primarily as texture detectors.
Go into settings.app. select news.app Go down to today feed, restrict stories in today. Special coverage might show up in some other tabs, but its gone on the today tab.
You can switch to only news from channels you follow. No empty squares. I also don’t get a bunch of filler from publications I don’t know or care about.
Seems like timing was very close to CNN’s subscriptions start which was Sunday. Yes you can give them $3 a month, same for Bloomberg, Wall Street and Barron is $8, most papers have gone the same. What is $12.99 compared to throwing money away. Of course it’s how much that is important for up to news other OTA, but that also includes premium also. So yes this news subscription is totally done in how businesses work in the last few years. Good that they still have the top news free. You can stay away no differently then before.
Is non USA publisher bundles involved and they might not want to sell themselves to Apple News, seems weird to expand AI to EU, but that is still premature and too radical for EU with press here gone subscriptions. Also EU might not even need that at all?
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Nice to see the recipes. But at least this should be made available everywhere irrespective of News+ availability, it need not be linked to it. Also Apple should bring News+ to more regions. Taking a long time.
Using German trade magazines that is accurate after looking for a lot of them. I assume if you switched languages no change also.
I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I actively work to keep my subscription spend as low as possible