Tim Cook is the Steve Ballmer of Apple. Good enough for profit but has absolutely no idea what he's doing.
He's unfit to lead Apple.
He's unfit to lead Apple.
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Some Publishers Unhappy With Apple News+ Launch and Lack of Help From Apple
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Yeah, they need your help, for sure.I'm laughing @ you Cook, NOT with you!
The Grass is NOT always Greener elsewhere !
AAPL should have stayed focused on the iPhone !
And specifically, producing the best solution possible @ ~$650 USD.
That’s what makes this whole thing such a disaster. They have no excuse because they have some of the greatest talent in the world, and huge reserves of cash. There was literally no reason why it had to fail this badly on launch.
They had plenty of time to prepare, plenty of time to get it right, and plenty of money to reward smart and good work. They even had enough money to hire actual UX designers.
Oh Please. The sky isn't falling just because some unidentified smaller publisher is griping that Apple is prioritizing supporting the larger publications, duh!
The tech that Apple and other tech companies have put at your fingertips would have been considered science fiction just a few years ago. On a relative basic, prices have crashed. I still have my receipt for my $379.00 20 MB external hard drive, now 20 GB thumb drives are giveaways at conferences, and you can buy a 2 TB drive for $50 on Amazon today.
Environmentally, Apple is leading the way for all tech companies. They will take every device they have ever made and recycle it for free. They will even pay for you to ship it to them!. They have 100% renewable energy at all stores and data centers, etc., and are now applying that standard to their suppliers.
I could go on and on, things are just getting better in just about every aspect, so get off that window ledge and enjoy life.
It seems a bit premature to declare News+ a failure because of a few growing pains within the first month. It's not only how many problems the service is experiencing but how quickly and how well Apple responds to them. I have no intention of signing up for any Apple service (I don't see the value in any of them for me), but I can see that 6 months from now News+ being a vibrant and viable service for those people who want that type of thing.
Yes, he's "obviously" never picked up a magazine at any newsstand before.
Nice American flag avatar. What is it they say about patriotism being the last refuge of a scoundrel?
Partly this. Apple need to sort themselves out, otherwise they’ll find content providers are quitting.
It’s down to Apple to put their words into action ASAP.
It seems that more and more Apple releases products and services months/years after everyone else, or way behind their own schedule, and the result is still sloppy and unfinished. How long had News+ been rumored? And I’m sure it was in the works long before that.
Apple News+ did one good thing for me - helped me read a forum post that led me to Readly, which has literally 10 times as many magazines (including a few I actually read) compared to News+ for the same price.
this news is so disappointing on various levels.
apple has a lot of people at its SpaceRing Technology Campus.
all that they needed was a team of about 50 to 100 persons with knowledge equivalent to what Squarespace template programmers have with Adobe skills and whatever other knowhow is needed, in order to crank out 10 to 15 templates within a 90 day span of time.
apple could have done this so well.
apple has a lot of people at its SpaceRing Technology Campus.
all that they needed was a team of about 50 to 100 persons with knowledge equivalent to what Squarespace template programmers have with Adobe skills and whatever other knowhow is needed, in order to crank out 10 to 15 templates within a 90 day span of time.
apple could have done this so well.
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Apple can't do services. Each time they do something they fail. This will be another ping
“Fail” is incredibly hyperbolic. The only Apple service I can think of that has actually failed is Ping. They may not be what people expect, or maybe not even very good, but News, Music, iCloud, etc. are all used by hundreds of millions of people every day without fail and they’re all profitable.
It was always just a quick money grab anyways...no one really needs a digital news subscription given all the free sources that are obtainable.
hi
thanks for the info about Readly.
i took a look at the site.
after visiting the Readly site, i understand much better what apple was probably looking to achieve.
apple can get this right.
it just takes leadership of a well organized company's resources to get it right.
Way larger and more successful than today, at any rate.
I'm sure the same was said about Nokia and Blackberry at some point.
Yep,
I've got one year of Wired paper magazine for $5.
Also, with all the free news all over the place, I have a hard time seeing this being a success. I honestly like reading books, and I don't really have the time to peruse so many magazines. Maybe they should have an option for $5 p/month that gives you the ability to chose three magazines. That might attract more people.
Either way, I think all these subscriptions that Apple is trying to implement might end up being a total failure. Too much competition and Apple prices are not good.
If you count millions of free accounts given to Verizon customers as "subscribers"
My reason for saying this is that Apple’s services seem basically geared for the mass market, and that is who they will appeal to.
It’s the same story with the Apple Watch and AirPods all over again. The so-called “tech experts” criticise these products on issues that simply don’t matter to their intended audience. What’s even more astounding is that the success of these products has caused the critics to instead double down on their own prejudices, rather than re-examine them.
So while you all quibble over these minute matters, you are all missing the whole point of Apple News - which is to address a very real consumer problem of finding accurate news in a world where Facebook and Twitter perpetuate conspiracy theories and junk news on a massive scale. And Apple is doing this with human curation paired with clever algorithms at a time when the rest of the tech industry is saying “just algorithm all the things!”
So the myriad of criticisms this forum loves to level at Apple, they may well be valid for the small vocal minority here, but that’s just that. There is value in this, and I believe it is value that the target market will be perfectly willing to pay for.