in a world where people want to be more disconnected... who will pay to read even more news
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Apple News+ Struggling to Get New Subscribers
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I like the Magazines, but do not feel they translate to digital all that well. However, I think the desire not to see as many advertisements leads me to prefer another source on the same topics. Hulu without ads has me spoiled.
My prediction is it will be rebranded as Apple Newsstand next year, be $4.99/month and be magazines only.
At the risk of sounding like 'I told you so', I posted before launch this was dead in the water. I worked in print media for decades making magazines. We could never get digital editions to work financially, and now Apple can't. No big surprise. I doubt the service will be here in 12 months' time.
This is why Apple will choose to roll apple news in to a combined subscription; it will be a value added add-on. Either that, or it dies.
Get this, pay for your fake news you can get for free.
Great idea.
Great idea.
Wow. Who would have thought people were not interested in fake news!
Seems it's hard to make them work financial in print as well. I know most of their income is ad supported but has anyone every tried the exercise of ripping all the ads out of a print magazine? Not much left.
Only a few magazines do I love and would have sitting out on a coffee table - among them being National Geographic, Smithsonian, Air and Space, Southern Living and Popular Science and Mechanics - however I am what you call a book store cheapie - I go to the book stores, pull the magazine off the rack, go sit in a comfy chair or at the coffee shop and then put them on the shelf again. Rarely will I buy one unless the content is something I want to keep and or share with others.
Speaking off coffee shops, I don't consider going to a coffee shop as the "eating out" part of my budget - I usually go to "get out", meet others or conduct business. A coffee shop either stand alone or in a bookstore is less about the food, etc and more about "renting space" for an hour or two.
How can we make News and or other print or digital content more of a service? Even old-timers who subscribe to newspaper the main selling point to them is the coupon savings with retailers and not the actual content. Oddly enough I get all those coupons delivered straight to my mailbox cutting out the newspaper/magazine middleman.
Yeah I usually don't buy magazines - I'm not to hip on pay 4-8 dollars or more for a magazine that is mostly ads. I'd be way more inclined to buy a magazine of it was only 2-3 bucks and thus see those ads. Not opposed to ad but am opposed to "paying for the ads with money" I already pay for them with my time and attention.
Apple Music keeps suggesting genres of Music I have absolutely no interest in. Likewise, Apple News keeps suggesting sources and stories that run counter to my preferences or basic beliefs. It becomes more annoying than interesting...
Yep, agree. The main reason I don’t use AN is because it won’t allow me to curate my own sources.
Also, you can get the same news from Twitter
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News needed an event, so people would write about it. AirPods and MacBooks kind of speak for themselves.
I'm completely fine with my NYT and The Athletic subscriptions. I see no need to have Apple News+ even after the free trial.
When you have things like Twitter which allows you to get the news as it happens literally, for free, what's the point of paying a subscription to read news that you can get elsewhere for free? Sometimes there's subscriptions that are pretty pointless to pay for. Apple News+ is one of them.
I couldn't agree more. The magazines are not great, and they are still mostly in magazine format, which needs to change. The whole concept of a magazine has run its course. I would say just publish articles. If your articles are of a specific focus, then it is what it is. But I wouldn't go through the whole process of a monthly published magazine, advertising, page, etc, etc. I would just have a portal, and you publish one article at a time like any other web portal.
There are a few newspapers I like such as the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. But I find myself less and less engaged with those as I feel that they both have an obvious bias against my own point of view. I like the concept of News+, but the content less so. A lot of the bought off mainstream news is just worthless garbage.
Loads of junk on it. What I think a lot of people, including myself would want, would be unrealistic, and Apple wouldn't be able to negotiate. Thinking Financial Times, New Scientist and that tier of media.
10 dollars a month is a nice price, for great content, but it's just not going to happen. When I looked it had a lot of hobbyist crap with rehashed content that you can find a decade of online for free already in cycling, photography etc (both hobbies which I love FWIW).
And then it's the gossip mags and lower tier newspapers which you wouldn't want to read anyway - just tribalist junk.
10 dollars a month is a nice price, for great content, but it's just not going to happen. When I looked it had a lot of hobbyist crap with rehashed content that you can find a decade of online for free already in cycling, photography etc (both hobbies which I love FWIW).
And then it's the gossip mags and lower tier newspapers which you wouldn't want to read anyway - just tribalist junk.
Well, the reading industry does have Amazon Kindle Unlimited. Unless you mean something other than a flat monthly fee for all the media you can consume.
That's what happens when you get greedy, the sub seems really overpriced. It's more than many video streaming services for crying out loud. I just get my news from the plethora of other news apps out there. What really annoys me is them having so many news+ stories, they know you are going to click them by accident and it feels a bit greasy the way they are pushing it.
It’s not condescending at all. I had no idea you could do any of that. That’s awesome! Thank you!!!!!
It's just too easy to check reddit every now and then for whatever topic i'm looking for, I get a relevant article and some discussion if I wanna do that too. Paying attention to news anymore than that (at least political stuff) makes me nauseous.