I was offered it too. Very cheeky for apple to hope people sign up, like you did.
It shouldn’t offer the trial for non-eligible customers!
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I was offered it too. Very cheeky for apple to hope people sign up, like you did.
It shouldn’t offer the trial for non-eligible customers!
It doesn’t say “first-time subscribers” in the pop-up on Apple News. If you already had a trial, it will charge you for a month.
Me, too. I’ll be calling them tomorrow. It should have told me that I wasn’t eligible.
grr..this happened to me too. Is there an easy way to reverse it? SLEAZY apple...
Why would they offer it to someone who isn’t eligible? Why would they not say your ineligible when you accept the offer? When they offer it to you, you can assume you’re eligible. It‘s possible they would offer another trial to entice you. It‘s not like they don’t know. They give no explanation of eligibility.
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Three free months of a curated, edited service I have zero interest in?
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I'm trying to figure out why News+ is the only service that doesn't offer a yearly rate like the rest.
Is it that hard for you to grasp the concept that what News+ offers for a fee is available free already? And those parts like magazine that aren’t available for free aren’t anything people are interested in enough to pay money for, hence why Apple has to give this service away as well?
I very much enjoy Apple news it's very economical as far as the value and content it provides!
You can choose to decline the year of ATV+, that's what I did. Then the message goes away.
I actually generally like the idea of Apple news + and the value of content it provides. What I don’t like the feeling of is the continuous feed of news articles. There’s a danger to getting sucked into these services and spending too much time in them. But this is coming from someone who outside of this forum doesn’t use social media.
If the infinitesimal amount of space that app occupies is a problem, you have a much larger problem.
It has really, really, really been pissing me off how much Apple is shoving this and Apple Music in my face practically everytime I open the News and Music apps on my iPad or iPhone. I've seen countless threads of people bashing SAMSUNG for doing this in their Music app (calling it cheap for them to inject adverts into an app that comes with a premium device), and here is Apple just taking cues from SAMSUNG shoving spam in our faces when we just want to use the software on our $1000 i-device.
I don't have a paid subscription to News+, but I use the app to follow various sources that I like. I usually check out the latest MacRumors articles there. It's convenient as a one-stop app, but I've found that subscribing individually to a favourite paid news source (that isn't part of the News+ package) is way better bang for buck and less cluttered than settling for a hundred sources of meh articles.
‘people who value journalism and understand a free press is our greatest tool against government overreach.
Everybody, regardless if they know it or not.
You don't want to use News, but yet you open the app. I'm missing something here. I couldn't even tell you what the interface looks like now, I don't use it and haven't launched it in ages.
Is there a point to *someone else's* curated news experience?
At this point what is the purpose of signing up for Apple One if half of the services have 3+ month trials? I have no interest in News+ but it doesn’t really seem like a toss in on the most expensive plan if it’s a free trial all the time and the fitness service still hasn’t launched.
You need to buy better magazines, Classic & Vintage Commercials for example has a lot less adverts than that.
First-time subscribers to Apple News+ can receive an extended three-month free trial of the service from today through Monday in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the UK, the four countries where News+ is currently available.
Why is the logo an "S"?
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Well stated. And why I subscribe to several online newspapers. Excellent investigative journalism costs money.