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Publishers Not Making Much Money From Apple News+
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same. I signed up for the free trial, set a reminder to cancel before the last day and have completely forgotten about it since then. I'm sure i'm not the only one.
If it’s high quality journalism you’ll probably hit a paywall sooner or later. Which, btw, I’m happy to pay to support the work. It’s not much.
Subscription fatigue.
Too expensive for what it is worth.
Modern day information overload.
Poorly designed app and execution.
Competition heavy segment and no way to engage and interact.
Only time will tell if this goes down the AppleMusic path.
I would like for Apple to charge a monthly flat fee for all of these services rather than $9.99 subscribers to death. For example,
$19.99/mo Bronze Tier: 250gb Family iCloud share, Apple Music Family Share up to 3, News+, Apple Arcade, TV+
$24.99/mo Silver Tier: 1TB Family iCloud share, Apple Music Family Share up to 5, News+, Apple Arcade, TV+
$29.99/mo Platinum Tier: 2TB Family iCloud share, Apple Music Family Share up to 5, News+, Apple Arcade, TV+
This only makes sense and could be a huge revenue generator for Apple rather than have customers purchase individual services. This allows customers to plug into one app for amazing integration with higher adaption rates for their subscription services.
$19.99/mo Bronze Tier: 250gb Family iCloud share, Apple Music Family Share up to 3, News+, Apple Arcade, TV+
$24.99/mo Silver Tier: 1TB Family iCloud share, Apple Music Family Share up to 5, News+, Apple Arcade, TV+
$29.99/mo Platinum Tier: 2TB Family iCloud share, Apple Music Family Share up to 5, News+, Apple Arcade, TV+
This only makes sense and could be a huge revenue generator for Apple rather than have customers purchase individual services. This allows customers to plug into one app for amazing integration with higher adaption rates for their subscription services.
So much needs to change, i hope Apple keeps working on it. We need a web based version, easy sharing of articles linking to the website of the paper, easy conversion of PDF's and way more international magazines. This needs to be opened up to every magazine in every language.
Isnt it amply clear the days of Magazines are over and Macrumor styled socially backed forum websites are what the present and somewhat near future is.
It was obvious this would happen from the start, I suspect they will now pull out from apple one by one when their contracts are up, if not sooner, and Apple will have to kill off the whole idea, unless their greed in this one subsided which I doubt..
It was a stupid idea anyway and stupid of Apple to run with it. Their are Ssssooooooooo many free news sources out there these days.
It was a stupid idea anyway and stupid of Apple to run with it. Their are Ssssooooooooo many free news sources out there these days.
Don’t know how this could expand. For the us is houndreds of magazines and potentially millions of customers. This service could probably not even be released in many countries if they won’t let us access magazines from other countries.
My little Norway would get 5 magazines and a massive below 100 000 users..
My little Norway would get 5 magazines and a massive below 100 000 users..
Well guess we’ll have to wait another whole year for an updated News app, since Apple still refuses to update core apps individually outside of new iOS releases. 
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Exactly. Apple is just like every other corporation now...desperate to make more money at any cost just to please their greedy stockholders.
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Exactly. Apple is just like every other corporation now...desperate to make more money at any cost just to please their greedy stockholders.
And what is factual and unbiased to you ... whatever aligns with your world view I presume?
P.S. Theres plenty of fact in all sorts of news outlets, sometimes you just have to look past all the opinion pieces.
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Its all part of Apple trying to be the center of your universe for everything. They want you to pay for things using their service, they want you to listen through their services, they want you to get news through their services....
Frankly I dont find getting music or news or paying for things difficult at all without using Apple as an intermediary.
Not sure what great problem of the world they think theyre trying to solve.
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That goes against the core of what Apple is all about. Apple is about profitability- they're either gouging the publishers or the consumer.
The only way they'll change is if the perception of their greed affects their profits (see Apple Music trial service revenue fiasco).
I'm happy to support journalism (and currently spend about double the Apple News subscription price per month for those I support) but I'm not happy with Apple taking 50% just to basically provide links to scanned PDFs
Even the idea of concentrating your sources in one place is a bad idea, look how YouTube started screwing content creators and censoring once they were established as the main platform
Can't say that I'm surprised, People are unwilling to pay a subscription to read news when much of that stuff is fairly accessible on the internet. Magazine type stuff, is a different matter and while the content may not be easily accessed for free, many people don't find value in reading magazines (electronic or physical) - Its a dying medium.
Yeah the 50% cut is ridiculous. Should be brought down to at least 40%. It should also be on as many platforms as possible. And rather than being all magazines, it should actually be newspapers and business newspapers in addition to magazines.
Magazines and newspapers are dead. There’s no shortage of content to read online. There are sites and forums for every topic one can imagine. There’s no need for the format any longer.
This was a stupid idea from the start, and I think many publishers said so from the beginning.
This was a stupid idea from the start, and I think many publishers said so from the beginning.
The thing I hate about Apple News is with most of the topics/people I follow the news I get is months old. If I want stories on a certain athlete I don’t want ones that are 16 weeks old. If there is no recent news on this person then don’t show me anything. Honestly most of what I see on Apple News I’ve already seen on Twitter or elsewhere. It doesn’t surface new things to me. I’m not sure what Apple’s point is here. They’re not reinventing news. It seems like a product where they started with the financials and worked backwards.
It needs comment sections that can be enabled by publishers. It needs an overhauled app with live news and video section. This app as potential, but as it is right now it’s a big no no for me.
Point taken...but if people don't criticize it barely off the ground, then Apple has nothing to listen to...I agree that within the last year Apple has shown that they listen...but it's usually in the face of a lot of tech nerd anger...I'm not deluded enough to think Apple reads macrumors forums, but a lot of the negativity people have expressed here seems to correlate with things Apple has worked on...incremental/gpu updates for MBP, revisions of butterfly keyboard, Mac Pro informed by older cheesegrater version, Mac mini update, etc. It almost feels like they let these things linger so long that an uproar forms and then there is progress on them.
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Bundling stuff is not a bad idea...but given what people pay for Amazon Prime (movies/TV/music), I think we'd be looking at a lot more per month for access to music, tv, and iCloud on family share....
Just go to every magazine and subscribe. $9.99/mo is a steal. Most yearly subscriptions are $10-$12year. By the way you have access to hundreds of magazines. Why is Apple trying to profit? Magazine companies are making large profits from their ads and inserts. Why are the magazine companies crying about Apple’s marketing strategy on making a profit? Makes no sense. They can’t have it both ways. Apple is just a digital Barnes and Noble. But all you can eat.
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Yes even if it started at $29.95 for a bronze tier, that’s still cheaper than than almost my, Amazon Prime, Nextflix, ESPN+ combo that I’m paying on top of my cable bill.
Apple might have upsold their value proposition to these magazine companies. It’s the primary reason they would have considered joining the platform.
The complaints are legitimate. It’s a two sided street here, not one sided.