I like that Apple news keeps me within a unified format. I would see redirecting me to other sites as a major downside.
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Flipboard Founder Claims Apple News is 'a Product Living in the Past'
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I like that Apple news keeps me within a unified format. I would see redirecting me to other sites as a major downside.
I’m so sick of this “sharing” crap. Am I the only one who doesn’t feel the need to share everything I do? If I see an interesting article I’ll iMessage it, or email it to the person. I just don’t understand why everything has to have a social, or sharing element to it; can’t you just have a news app for reading news?
I prefer Apple News specifically because I don’t like getting kicked to websites and hammered with too many ads. Also what real benefit would I gain from a bunch of social features? I can do a basic share if needed but I don’t need all that other noise.
I stopped using Flipboard long ago because of these issues and because it was trying a little too much to be another facestagramtrest.
I stopped using Flipboard long ago because of these issues and because it was trying a little too much to be another facestagramtrest.
You apparently haven't been paying attention. They've done this repeatedly.
At least pick up on the context if nothing else: people don't often joke about repeating something that didn't happen.
Flipboard has great reviews. <Takes out phone to install Flipboard> Ha, I see what you did there!
Apple News is OK - I kinda like it. I used to use Google NewsStand but have fallen out of favor with it because of subscriptions and every article had a "click here to continue to read" and taking me to the site anyway. I used Flipboard on Android back in the day.
Just spent 20 mins with Flipboard - yeah I forgot how much I liked it. I love that I don't have to sign in.
The amount of ads on news sites has gotten to the point that I can't stand to even scan the news anymore because of the ungodly amount of advertisement all over, in the text, on the left, on the right, videos starting...
Apple News is OK - I kinda like it. I used to use Google NewsStand but have fallen out of favor with it because of subscriptions and every article had a "click here to continue to read" and taking me to the site anyway. I used Flipboard on Android back in the day.
Just spent 20 mins with Flipboard - yeah I forgot how much I liked it. I love that I don't have to sign in.
The amount of ads on news sites has gotten to the point that I can't stand to even scan the news anymore because of the ungodly amount of advertisement all over, in the text, on the left, on the right, videos starting...
I used to be a huge FlipBoard fan/user, but over time, slowly, quit using FlipBoard and instead used Facebook as a news reader. Facebook was an excellent news reader, at one time, in my opinion; their algorithms seemed to be absolutely beat FlipBoard in figuring out what it was that I wanted to see/read. Now having largely quit Facebook, I've been using the Apple News app for a year plus. It is easily the most used app on my phone. I like it quiet a bit. Very clean. I'd love more customization though, like the ability to tell it to show me every post from a handful of specific sources, as I do feel that unless I specifically go to a "liked/followed" source, articles from some sources that only read sometimes, only rarely show up in the For You tab. But overall, I really like News.
I really prefer Flipboard on Desktop, and Apple News on Mobile. Also for all that talk about "Human Curration" I litterally get the same articles on both platforms after selecting my topics of interest on both platforms. I do wish News a=had a desktop app for mac.
How does it feel to find out 70 million people disagree with you? LOL. That said, I wish Apple would offer an ad free Apple News. They could offer it for a small monthly subscription charge or bundle it with Apple Music, etc. They disabled the ability to use an ad blocker with Apple News
, which seems hypocritical (write to Tim!). The other thing they did was to take away the ability to mute channels in your daily feed. Now you only have the choice to like or dislike each article even if you know there are channels that you don't want to appear in your feed (email Tim!).
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Hmm, Apple News is installed by default. People have to actually know about Flipboard to find it and install it. Guess which platform will survive in the long term? To Flipboard: find a buyer. Maybe become Samsung News
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This is one of those where I wish I could upvote times 1000. Zite was the very best.
Just another Apple service available only in a few countries. It will take years to expand to more countries.
It may be outdated or living in the past but I like how there's almost zero ads that pops up every 2 seconds telling you to try viagra or subscribe to some obnoxious magazine (I'm looking at you Men's Health). You'll see some ads within the News app when you scroll down which is non-invasive.
If the choice of an outdated, closed-walled, strict app that delivers the content that I want to read without having bombarded by ad after ad, then consider me Don Draper with my smoke in my mouth and newspaper in my hands.
If the choice of an outdated, closed-walled, strict app that delivers the content that I want to read without having bombarded by ad after ad, then consider me Don Draper with my smoke in my mouth and newspaper in my hands.
Exactly. I’m not interested in benefitting the publisher. I want a product to benefit me. I want them to find a way to make money, but not by going to a crappy site with pop ups and auto play.
Well, they catched up on this matter. But yeah, Apple News and Pay offer some heavy white spots around the world.
Yeah, I used it once or twice after I "configured" it and saw little to no benefit over my traditional news reading method of just visiting a website and reading the article. I can't say I know of anyone in my circle that uses it, actually. I do know of a few flipboard die hards that won't look at an article any other way, so they must be doing something right.
It's crazy to think, Apple News is only available in a few countries and already has a large % of Flipboards usage. Flipboard is available globally.
Personally I stopped using flip board, it's become way to complicated for what I want it for.
Really hoping Apple News comes to Canada soon.
In the mean time, I'll just use Reddit.
Personally I stopped using flip board, it's become way to complicated for what I want it for.
Really hoping Apple News comes to Canada soon.
In the mean time, I'll just use Reddit.
Name a single app they’ve banned from the store after “copying” features. I’ll wait.
Also your comment makes no sense. I’m supposed to assume something is true because some random person on the internet made a joke about it? Ok...
I like the ability to "Dislike" certain category of news stories and apple has learned to stop including them in my feed. I no longer get junk about entertainers, sports and junk opinion pieces. I did not figure out a way to do similar things with Flipboard.