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Hands-On With Apple's 'News' App Introduced in iOS 9 Beta 3

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Is it true that this feature will only be in the US for launch? Can't work out why its not going to be supported worldwide as breaking news in the UK is more than likely going to be the same in the US, Australia ETC..
 
darkknight14 said:
Is it true that this feature will only be in the US for launch? Can't work out why its not going to be supported worldwide as breaking news in the UK is more than likely going to be the same in the US, Australia ETC..
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Where did you hear that? At launch, it'll be available in the US, UK and Australia.

But I agree it's strange that only the US have it at present in beta 3. Perhaps that will change when the public beta is released.
 
Ahonen said:
We can rest assured there will be zero balance in the "curated" news source offerings. No Fox News, no Washington Times, National Review, Breitbart, NY Post or The Weekly Standard. I'll be stashing this app away with the Newsstand app.
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You can't file it away with the Newsstand app. This is replacing that app. One would assume anyone who submits to be part of News will be (one of these screen shots did show Fox News). The minute Apple starts censoring in the News app is the day I stop using Apple products.
 
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While I like the idea of News, I'm also curious whats happening to Newsstand, is News in addition to Newstand or will it be completely removed? I subscribe to the New York Times, WSJ and several Magazines, while I think Newsstand is a pointless app I's just curious of how I'm going to manage my "printed" media moving forward.
 
dnajarro76 said:
While I like the idea of News, I'm also curious whats happening to Newsstand, is News in addition to Newstand or will it be completely removed? I subscribe to the New York Times, WSJ and several Magazines, while I think Newsstand is a pointless app I's just curious of how I'm going to manage my "printed" media moving forward.
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Apparently the apps within newsstand will just remain regular apps.
 
dnajarro76 said:
While I like the idea of News, I'm also curious whats happening to Newsstand, is News in addition to Newstand or will it be completely removed? I subscribe to the New York Times, WSJ and several Magazines, while I think Newsstand is a pointless app I's just curious of how I'm going to manage my "printed" media moving forward.
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Newsstand goes away and magazines just become apps. Which they were anyway. I always felt Newsstand was confusing. Glad Apple is getting rid of it.
 
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It's US only at the moment. If you want the news app, change your region to US. The news settings will then appear. Enable them and reboot
 
Interesting that the article fails to mention that currently the News App is only using RSS feeds, but in the future Apple will release their own format (Apple News Format) and then the users will be able to
"..create beautifully crafted layouts with custom typography, rich photo galleries, videos, and animations".

Seems that too many people are viewing this as an RSS reader, when in the future it will be more than just that.
 
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I think so. iAd is available to the news publisher:
https://developer.apple.com/news-publisher/
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All the information available points to Apple keeping 100% of the profits of iAd and stripping the monetization ads from the articles.

We need the Taylor Swift of News to get Apple to change course. Nobody asks them for free iPhones, why are they asking journalists and writers work for free ?

EDIT: Out of date. Went on developer website, and I'm glad Apple changed course and is paying for work they use and monetize in News app.
 
macpt said:
All the information available points to Apple keeping 100% of the profits of iAd and stripping the monetization ads from the articles.
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Apple said:
Monetization of Apple News Format content is simple with iAd, Apple’s advertising platform. Whether you sell your own ads, allow iAd to sell ads for you, or use a combination of both, you’ll earn revenue from the ad impressions in your Apple News Format content. iAd provides robust targeting capabilities to optimize relevance and delivery, and its ad trafficking and management services ensure the highest quality user experience for your readers.

Revenue

Keep 100% of the revenue from the ads you sell in your articles or channel, or 70% when iAd sells ads for you. You can also earn revenue from ads sold by iAd that appear in Apple-curated topic feeds, such as Fashion or Technology.
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autrefois said:
I agree. This is a growing problem, in my opinion. One of the biggest advantages (and most important roles) of traditional media is that you're getting a wide variety of information about different topics.

More and more over the past 10 years or so, apps/sites are either choosing for you what they think you want to read, pushing what they want you to read, or letting you personalize things so much that you could become completely shut off from new things that might be interesting or important for you to read.

I'm not just talking about the headlines of current events that people should generally be aware of to be informed about what's going on in the world, but also feature stories about subjects you may never have even heard of before and wouldn't show up as something you like based on previous reading data, but which you might find interesting/funny/cool if you saw the headline or the photo for it.

Sure, the answer to this is to go buy a newspaper or or an online subscriptions to one. But these cost money (and they should) and people are getting more and more used to the idea of things being free or free with ads.

Apple News and similar programs have a lot more potential because they draw from so many more sources. Part of it will depend on what sources you tell Apple News to draw from and what you end up reading. But over time, based on the description at least, if you just read what is put front and center to you in the app, you will be exposed even less to a wide variety of news and more to the narrow range of stories the app deems to be related to your previous reading patterns.
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The New York Times is a breath of fresh air. But I just can't bring myself to pay for it. I have given them .99 for 8 weeks of a campaign. I have done it about 4 times. But in the end I don't subscribe. Still they write so well. It is always a pleasure.
 
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macpt said:
All the information available points to Apple keeping 100% of the profits of iAd and stripping the monetization ads from the articles.

We need the Taylor Swift of News to get Apple to change course. Nobody asks them for free iPhones, why are they asking journalists and writers work for free ?

EDIT: Out of date. Went on developer website, and I'm glad Apple changed course and is paying for work they use and monetize in News app.
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I think some of them were asking for free iPhones actually.
 
Beechy said:
It's US only at the moment. If you want the news app, change your region to US. The news settings will then appear. Enable them and reboot
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I didn't even have to reboot. However, for me, it crashed like 4 times in 10 minutes. I might try again but will probably just wait for beta 4. Back to Flipboard it is.

Oh, and I tried to add the MacRumours RSS feed but there was no option in the Share Sheet to Add to News. Has anybody been able to add MacRumours to News? MacRumours have about 5 RSS feeds but I couldn't add any. If you try add MacRumours.com, that doesn't work either.
 
Can we add any website to the feed? That's why I love Flipboard so much.
 
nostaws said:
The words "curated news" make me nervous.

I like going to a web site, reading a magazine or newspaper, - seeing everything - and making my own decisions on what to read.
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Interesting that the article fails to mention that currently the News App is only using RSS feeds, but in the future Apple will release their own format (Apple News Format) and then the users will be able to
"..create beautifully crafted layouts with custom typography, rich photo galleries, videos, and animations".

Seems that too many people are viewing this as an RSS reader, when in the future it will be more than just that.
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Yeah, there are currently 10 articles under 'Apple News Selections' that appear to be using the Apple News Format. They actually do look a lot better.
 
Ha, this is the image Apple is using for the Android topic in News. :D

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It's a good-enough default, but it just doesn't do anything new than all other reader apps didn't already do - and have done for years. I'm kind of disappointed this gets any coverage at all, this is pretty sub-par for Apple.
 
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crsh1976 said:
It's a good-enough default, but it just doesn't do anything new than all other reader apps didn't already do - and have done for years. I'm kind of disappointed this gets any coverage at all, this is pretty sub-par for Apple.
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It's the first release of a new App inside a beta operating system, perhaps you should reserve judgement for the final release.
 
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