Apple News+ Offering Three-Month Free Trial in U.S. and Canada This Weekend Only

[MacRumors]

Apple today started offering an extended three-month free trial period for Apple News+ to first-time subscribers in the United States and Canada, up from a one-month trial previously. According to the App Store, this is a temporary promotion available for the Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend only.

"This weekend only, get a 3 month free trial of Apple News+ and enjoy full access to hundreds of magazines and leading newspapers," says Apple.

The three-month trial can be initiated on the Apple News website in the United States or Canada. After the trial period, Apple News+ automatically renews for $9.99 per month in the United States or $12.99 per month in Canada until cancelled.

Apple News+ is a subscription-based service in the Apple News app that lets you access hundreds of magazines and paywalled content from some news sites. The service launched in March following Apple's acquisition of Texture.

Apple News+ continues to offer a one-month trial in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Article Link: Apple News+ Offering Three-Month Free Trial in U.S. and Canada This Weekend Only

 

[mnsportsgeek]

This will surely kickstart subscriber growth.

 

[nfl46]

Start move on Apple’s part. Maybe this will jump start interest in it.

 

[now i see it]

at this point they could give away a 1 year trial & it wouldn't make any difference

 

[HappyDude20]

I’ve been using Apple News Plus for a while now and honestly it’s not that great.
The only real appeal is that I have access to dozens and dozens of magazines and newspapers, but navigating to what I want to read and discover is so annoying and not fun that I wouldn’t mind paying extra to have a real newspaper or magazine in my hand.

 

[ghostface147]

That's still a hard no from me.

 

[Stella]

Nope.

Free trials like these, the company hopes that people will forget to cancel their free trial and start paying after the free period is over.

 

[luvbug]

Tried it early on. I guess I'm not much of a magazine reader. I don't need the fluffy crap and hard "news" no longer exists, so what's the point (other than the publishers trying to make money for nothing)?

 

[OneMike]

Nah at six month trial I still wouldn’t be interested.

 

[WannaGoMac]

How much for them to stop spamming News with News+ ads all over the app?

 

[CoronaOnTap]

How much for them to stop spamming News with News+ ads all over the app?

Apparently $9.99 a month

 

[travis64]

Cool I’ll give it another whirl

 

[Khedron]

Just let it die already, this is embarrassing now

 

[nostresshere]

If any of the major news organizations would PUBLICLY PROMISE to report just the news and not opinion and click bait - I would pay $10 a month. Nobody from CNN to NBC to FOXNEWS (and most others) are reliable to get factual reporting anymore.

NOTE: Opinion pages are fine by the way - like they were once upon a time.

Note #2 - You will note that I am not being political as I slammed both sides of the news cycle above.
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But - I just signed up for trial and put a not on my calendar to cancel at the end of Feb.

 

[chucker23n1]

It's interesting how wrong I would have predicted their 2019 services launches.

I would've expected something like:

Apple Arcade: C+
Apple Card: B+
Apple News+: A-
Apple TV+: B-

Instead, it's almost the reverse. Consensus appears to be something like:

Apple Arcade: A (seems generally well-loved!)
Apple Card: B+ (this one… basically matched the relatively low expectations)
Apple News+: B- (not doing great)
Apple TV+: A- (no smash hit, but reasonably satisfying)

Would you have bet that Apple would do a much better job launching a gaming(!) platform than a news one?

 

[decypher44]

Still a no

 

[anthogag]

I like News+. I read many magazines I would otherwise not read. I would like to see many more magazines in News+.

Articles in News & News+ should include the comment section if the web article has it.

 

[Herrpod]

Stop trying to make "fetch" happen.

 

[Stevez67]

I click the ad for the 3 month trial, it switches me to the app, and the app offers the same 1 month trial.

 

[macfacts]

Apple news

I like News+. I read many magazines I would otherwise not read. I would like to see many more magazines in News+.

Articles in News & News+ should include the comment section if the web article has it.

That is because apple news + is like working with a needle in a haystack, no search function.

 

[jbachandouris]

I don't even see the option for a trial at all, only subscribe. And no, I never used the trial before...

 

[DevNull0]

Tried it early on. I guess I'm not much of a magazine reader. I don't need the fluffy crap and hard "news" no longer exists, so what's the point (other than the publishers trying to make money for nothing)?

Apple has horribly misunderstood what they bought when they bought out Texture. News+ is an idiotic name for a magazine service. You're 100% right about the news magazines in the service, but 95% of the magazines are special interest, hobby, niche things and many of them really are excellent because they're produced by enthusiasts in the niche fields. But almost nobody gets that, which is perfectly understandable when it's called News+ and half-ass glued onto Apple's news aggregator.

Magazines in the 21st century have nothing at all to do with news. Even if the news quality were excellent, which it most certainly isn't, a weekly magazine is still pushing week-old news that nobody cares to read anymore. Apple doesn't understand that and all Apple has done here is confuse people.

 

[SBlue1]

I wish Apple News would be offered in Germany. But on the other hand I just found out that my local library offers digital content for free once you sing up for the regular library. So actually I just signed up because of the kids, and hey its just 12 Euros for the whole year by the way. And so now besides having lots of books for the kids, in addition we got novels for the wife and music CDs, movie DVDs and BRs for me, as well as free e-books, free e-magazines and local e-newspapers, along with free music.

So I would always recommend to check your local library if you haven't for two decades or so like me and see if they have transitioned to the digital age.

 

[satchmo]

I’m sure I would love the many magazines during the 3 months free, but not to the point of paying $12.99/mo.

They need to bundle this with Music or AppleTV+ In order to make it feasible.

 

[gsmornot]

If this is going to see regular subscription it will need to be part of a package with something that already sells like Music.