You can get most magazines for $2 to $5 per year. Now, saving paper is worthy but is it worthy of $120 annually?
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Apple News+: Is it Worth the $9.99 per Month Subscription Price?
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Reading comments here it’s obvious 99% of people think it’s not worth the price and are not going to pay for it.
You can't delete downloaded issues from your device. Until they fix that nonsense, I don't recommend this service to anyone.
Nice list of ideas. You have more innovation in that one small post than Apple’s entire executive team could ever bring us.
I just read that the Magazines in Apple News+ still have adds. That's where they're making money on this deal. Not from Apples pennies.
For me, I'm not paying actually $ for a product that still has adds. I'd cancel Netflix if they started interrupting me with commercials. TV is bad enough.
We live in a day that App developers have trained us to expect adds in FREE apps while offering an add free version at a cost. Why would I pay for Apple News+ with adds? I can get that same thing for free online.
I already pay three monthly fees (fixed home line and two cellular lines) to access the internet, a world wide web where I'm supposed to find all the data I need, in the format I need it, whenever I need it. And these "genius entrepreneurs" want me to pay another 10 bucks per month to access magazine and newspaper articles on my internet connected devices? That's like paying someone to channel-surf infomercials on my TV for me.
Congrats, all that text and not a single word on-topic. And give up already on Forstall. He’s not CEO material, and no, he wasn’t “groomed to be the next Jobs innovator type”; you made that up. Do realize that neither he, nor Apple, wants him back at Apple. That bridge is even more burned to the ground than Apple/Qualcomm—at least there’s a possible future, as unlikely as it may seem, where Apple and Qualcomm kiss and make up.
On topic, I’ve already got subscriptions to eight or ten magazines that go out to 2021/22/23, but I’m sure I’ll take a look at News+ later in the year when they’ve had a chance to tune it up a bit. I’ll wait until it gets over its initial growing pains.
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I don’t know - for some reason, this doesn’t really bother me (which is why Apple and publishers are smarter than the rest of us and can prey on that psyche and monetize it, but
). I never expected to have magazines with the ad pages ripped out as part of my News+ - if those are even the ads you’re discussing. I haven’t seen others.
Input...One can edit the news and magazines in the left column. Adding, deleting and prioritizing. Therefore, the firehose easily controlled. Just like Apple Music, way more songs then most would like. With the ability to make playlists and modify suggestions, manageable. Same with News+.
Reminds me of the first generation of the Apple Music App. Rather in need of many updates.
Agreed, but that iPhone revenue ain’t what it use to be and may not come back seeing as customers do not upgrade as frequently.
Money has to come from somewhere, so they have turned to services.
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Agreed, I think they don’t have that hardware magic that once was present.
Yes, for instance I got a full screen of Oprah magazine that I don’t want, but no way to get rid of it. I’ll pay for a while, but they better improve the experience.
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Not doing that is worth paying 10 bucks for me.
Poof - all you irreplaceable time spent saving pennies.
This is my problem. No way to edit apparently what my magazine list is and things disappear, some things never add.
Mostly just frustrating to use and I will cancel at the end of the trial. Would’ve already canceled but it told me that my subscription would end immediately rather than the end of the trial period. That really bugged me because it is a cheap and sneaky way to get me to forget to cancel. F you Apple you have lost a news+ customer for sure after that (I would’ve come back if they ever made it a pleasant ui experience but now f you).
Charging for digital news today is not a good choice, why...the same news is all over the place for free, that’s the nature of publishing today, everyone wants to get their stuff out to everyone they can....
The Texture app is very nice. Apple News + is crap, just a terrible interface for keeping up on magazines. I’ll probably cancel for that reason.
No way... yikes.
I haven’t seen any ads yet, specially not video ads. Hopefully this isn’t something that becomes common. All the news that I read is free of the ads that they typically have on their own websites.
Texture was worth it for me.
I had every intention of continuing to do the same with Apple News+ eventually. But my iPad 4 on iOS 6 won't run News+ and I have no intention of replacing it for the next few years at least, so I'll be sidelined from the service for the time being.
Also, I like being able to choose which magazines from a menu of all the magazines, and then download issues/back issues under my control for off-line reading. It sounds like News+ has none of this functionality, so even though the content itself is well worth the price to me, Apple has presented in such a bad way that it would not be worth the trouble even if it would work on my iPad.
I had every intention of continuing to do the same with Apple News+ eventually. But my iPad 4 on iOS 6 won't run News+ and I have no intention of replacing it for the next few years at least, so I'll be sidelined from the service for the time being.
Also, I like being able to choose which magazines from a menu of all the magazines, and then download issues/back issues under my control for off-line reading. It sounds like News+ has none of this functionality, so even though the content itself is well worth the price to me, Apple has presented in such a bad way that it would not be worth the trouble even if it would work on my iPad.
I signed up. It's ok. Needs some work. Needs more actual news. I don't know if it will be worthwhile in the long run, I hope so.
If it's not for you, then it's it's not for you and there's nothing wrong with that.
I like the service for the more niche, special interest stuff. You can find stuff for free online, but for anything you might want to look up, for every decent source there are 100 semi-literate fools who have no clue what they are talking about but feel the need to write a page that amounts to "I read an article that explains very well what you are looking for, so here's my semi-literate regurgitation of the article that's 90% wrong and just restating in my own words what the proper article had." For every William Shakespeare, there are 10,000 Lewis Theobald's out there who make it impossible to find the quality material. 10 bucks a month to skip all the garbage copies and get articles that are written by literate people and properly edited is well worth it.
As far as news. All this "free" news out there is 1-line to 1-paragaph blubs designed to provoke a reaction and click and nothing else. There are no facts or information involved. A long form news article that is actually researched and investigated by someone who cares what they're writing is worlds away from the vapid trash mixed with wire summaries on the free "news" sites out there. It's kind of sad that you don't know the difference.
Maybe for your own sake, take the free trial and read a few of the long articles from Time magazine. It's the "free" news out there that costs far too much. The tragedy of our time is that people read all these free news blubs and believe they're remotely informed about current events.
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I sure hope so. I liked Texture, it worked very well and presented the magazines perfectly, and from the article here it sounds like Apple has made it 1000 times worse.
No. I'm tired of being nickel and dimed by subscriptions.