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Publishers Not Making Much Money From Apple News+

MacRumors users will spell doom for this service, and when it gets better over time their criticisms will simply dry up, as if never uttered. “Who, me?” If Apple has shown us anything lately, it’s that they are prepared to and do listen. I personally have no interest in magazines, but would not criticise a service like this, barely off the ground.

Think: point releases, and major updates, and so on. Judge the service, not only by how it is now, but by how it improves over time. Look at Apple Music, Photos, FCPX, even Beats hardware. Apple TV, is another obvious one. They kept receiving feedback, at least from me, about the lack of no good gaming controller support or interest. And eventually, they listened to us, and a game streaming service, to boot. Apple Watch, iOS, and so on. They do listen.
 
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How many people want to pay for a E-Mag or E-Newspaper when most information you can get for free once again Tim Apple does not get innovation why else Jony Ive is finally leaving. This is why Amazon is more successful when it comes to E-Books, E-Mags and E-Newspapers one of the reasons I enjoy Prime you can get a book for a month like a library and Apple does not even offer that option.

Tim Cook really should worry about their streaming service instead such as improving Apple TV hardware or working third party companies like LG to add iTunes for 2017 4K model TVs I mean Vizio a low brand TV is doing it why can't LG.
 
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Apple News has really stunk lately. Prior to the launch of “Plus,” my articles and interested topics were curated well, for me. Now, I get random categories like “Fashion” and “Women’s Issues” which don’t appeal to me. I frequently get magazine covers from Good Housekeeping or Ebony or others, which I don’t want and don’t need to keep being reminded that I have to pay to read them. The frequent things I like to read about, say Baseball for one, used to appear regularly in the “For You” or as a separate block, and now doesn’t appear at all.

I did the trial and didn’t care for it. Now I don’t like the “free tier,” either. Something has to change.

And BTW—how much money did these rags make when their content was on Texture? Did the subscription model suddenly fall off the cliff when Apple merged Texture into Apple News?
 
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Because its not so great. You cant control what is downloaded and when its deleted. I downloaded a bunch of magiznes before a long flight to Hawaii and it decided it would auto delete them so most were missing for my flight....No option to turn auto delete off......Canceled
 
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Not sure who to blame here but I have no problem paying 9.99$ a month, I really want a digital magazines service and I like the News app itself and yet, I am not a subscriber because I did the trail and the PDF content is horrible, the UI is hideous, it is as if the designers never used it before they give it the green light and everything felt like a mess even in my iPad Pro 11' screen.

Frankly, I think News needed an Apple TV app with videos content from news channels and maybe video podcasts-like channels, somehow. Not a magazines subscription nor a Watch app either!
 
No surprise. When I have to tap through six or seven (hidden) screens just to find the magazine I want to read, it’s too much of a hassle to be worth $9.99 per month.

Texture had it right the first time. Apple should have built on that instead of allowing interns (?) to build the (failed) user interface.

It was obviously not a high priority for Apple because it is apparent that they didn’t bother to assign actual UX designers for the project.
 
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Tried it once, but my screen time is focused on a few sites like macrumors.com and then I head to WaPo or NYTimes or other common sites. Overseas I go to papers in Sydney or London or wherever a major story may break. You can Google "English language newspapers in . . . ", such as:

English language newspapers in Hong Kong

I just don't see the value of Apple's News Plus. Apple News was fine in the original format, but I don't spend time for today's approach. I don't see it being a huge success.
 
Apple News+ is a terribly designed app to get you to pay for what is available for free or for less.

Apple can subscribe to my newsletter for $19.99/mo and I can let them know this. Of course, if Apple just looks online, they also can learn that their app is terrible - for free. But, shhhhhh.
 
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Shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. What was Apple thinking? Publishers were hoping for a Hail Mary, but none should have really expected anything.
 
I liked the idea of Apple News in general but ... I don't go the curation route. I don't even use the funny files .. RMX or whatever it is. I prefer to just go to the site, read it, and then get back to work. Which, by the way, eeryone have a great weekend. /TMC
 
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Obvious to you and I, but I remember you swimming upstream against the conventional "wisdom" on this site that said it was going to be a boon for publishers.
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That was the thoughts behind some with iTunes in its inception. It also was bashed shortly after debut. Up until Apple became the largest distributor or music globally. Memories tend to be short.
 
I paid for Apple News for a month or two, but never found any content that I found useful.

I thought the Wall Street Journal would be of interest, but not being able to easily access the paper's full content was a deal killer.

Meantime, I continue to pay $10 a month each to the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Seattle Times.
 
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There are lots of magazine subscription services, all have way more magazines than apple and for the same price, and as a result each magazine gets a smaller cut. But they're only complaining about apple?! Give me a break.

I do like magazines. There's articles that you can't find anywhere else. Despite what you think. Stories that only appear in a magazine. I used to have many magazine subscriptions and this is wayyyy cheaper than that. But like I said, there are many other magazine services for the same price with way more magazines.
 
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They should do Audible kind of deal. Pay $9.99 and choose 4-5 magazines to follow, WSJ could be worth two credits.
 
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