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Some Publishers Unhappy With Apple News+ Launch and Lack of Help From Apple
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It's really bizarre - most of my feed went from CNN and Politico to People and Mashable overnight. I'm really not sure what persuaded the algo that I'm back in high school.
Nice try but they overtook Spotify in PAID subscribers. Not freebies.
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I don’t like how they put news+ articles mixed into my normal feed. I don’t subscribe. I should net been seeing news+ garbage.
I'm seeing a lot of freeloading commentators complaining about no free samples or that they've got a dirt cheap subscription to one magazine. You folks have no clue the largest user base of magazine subscriptions. Here's a clue, it's not you. It is universities, large corporations, small businesses, etc.
Go to a salon and see those 50 magazines sprawled out on the table to pacify those waiting to get their hair done. Go into an IT business, sit down, sip on free lattes, bagels and scan through a dozen or more subscriptions curtailed to those waiting.
Well, most people now sit on their phones and don't pick them up anymore.
Apple is offering a solution to these traditional publication houses À la carte to be on everyone's smartphone for $9.99/month.
I expect Apple to extend these News+ options to businesses who will pay a premium to have their staff get access to News+ as a work perk.
Anyone who reads magazines --plural--not just skimming a few articles online for free, but have 3, 4, 5 or more yearly subscriptions will jump on News+ and laugh at how much more money they are saving.
For freeloaders you'll whine about everything.
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You're not paying for it, period. Stop complaining.
Go to a salon and see those 50 magazines sprawled out on the table to pacify those waiting to get their hair done. Go into an IT business, sit down, sip on free lattes, bagels and scan through a dozen or more subscriptions curtailed to those waiting.
Well, most people now sit on their phones and don't pick them up anymore.
Apple is offering a solution to these traditional publication houses À la carte to be on everyone's smartphone for $9.99/month.
I expect Apple to extend these News+ options to businesses who will pay a premium to have their staff get access to News+ as a work perk.
Anyone who reads magazines --plural--not just skimming a few articles online for free, but have 3, 4, 5 or more yearly subscriptions will jump on News+ and laugh at how much more money they are saving.
For freeloaders you'll whine about everything.
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You're not paying for it, period. Stop complaining.
My point is publishers need to get paid, and Apple News+ is making it happen.
Publishers aren't investing in tech infrastructure to distribute apps on smartphones. 50% is pennies to them on subscriptions. They are betting on people to get hooked on the News+ on the go and order a print version shipped to the home with a much larger pool of articles. Win/Win for the Publishing houses.
Seems like the little guys are getting punished here though. So if by publishers you mean the large ones, then yeah maybe.
Ab, if the reality is that Apple is catering to the modest expectations of its least discerning customers, then there is no reason for you and I visit this site. There is no reason to show Apple any reverance. We may as well congregate on a website that observes Walmart.
IT businesses already have their source for news that is more current than magazines.
Ummmm... you‘ve got the idea of a Free Press wrong. It’s not that it is free to get and read, but that it is free from arbitrary content restriction, i.e. usually government censorship, but also private or oligarchical censorship.
Someone has to pay to make the content in the news, either through advertising, subscriptions, or combination of both. Otherwise you are relying on the largesse of wealthy individuals to produce the news, and they wouldn’t be biased in any way, now, would they?
This is a good point that I think speaks to the viability of the weekly/monthly magazine model. The modern digital magazine, like a Politico/Bloomberg/Ringer/National Review/Verge, typically provides new content everyday, even though they would not be considered a daily newspaper in the traditional sense. People are slowly being untrained from the habit of sometimes waiting a week or even a whole month to catch up on the latest news for any given genre.
You might read what I posted, nothing about glory, Apple is acting as it always has, as are Google and Microsoft. For that matter every large tech company.
The idea is great. The execution extremely disappointing. Why does a company with such enormous resources roll out such a sloppy product? Inconsistent format, confusing navigation, wild variation in presentation quality, crazy use of add space vs content, bare bone features and obvious lack of standards. They didn't put their heart into this one.
I hate Tim Cook. I wonder why you assumed I love him. You sound like every other member on this forum that is extremely biased against Tim's Apple and immediately think those that disagree with you love Tim Cook. No. At least I'm objective with my reasonings.
Also you said "welcome to the new apple" which implies this "new apple" is related to time. Don't try to walk back on your statements.
Feel free to reply, but I won't be reading anymore of your statements. You refuse to admit wrong, so I won't waste anymore of my time talking with you.
Growing pains/learning curve entering into a new services sector. Apple has never done any web services correct, iCloud while still not comparable to competitors is far better than iTools and whatever their called it after.
The silliness of the comments here is pretty amazing. Newsstands all over the world take AT LEAST a 40% cut of everything, and for magazines, more like 50%. Even that chocolate bar that you might buy with your newspaper has a retail margin of 30-40-50 or more percent.
This business is retail, the retailer builds, staffs, and manages the shop, the content producers make the content. How the split of final sale price goes to retailer, publisher, producer, and writer is something for commercial contractual relationships between all the parties.
I don’t think the mass consumer is any less discerning, they just have different needs and expectations from the rest here.
Has it ever occurred to any of you all here that maybe you are the ones out of touch with what Apple is doing here? So we are basically viewing two movies on the same screen. The critics and haters here essentially see a train wreck in everything that Apple does (which to me says more about them than Apple because, seriously, who spends so much time on an online forum raging about something they hate?), while Apple’s offerings continue to resonate with the mass consumer market, the majority of whom do not frequent Macrumours and are happily using their Apple watches, drawing on their iPads, sharing Animoji and consuming news.
And maybe that’s the whole point. I for one am glad that the tech-savvy users here don’t get to decide what Apple, a design-led company, does (and doesn’t do).
There are lots of magazines and newspapers to read with a subscription but it’s a terrible, unsophisticated experience. Using the app is like opening a box stuffed with magazines. You would never think the News application was created by the same company that created iTunes.
It was a smart move by WAPO and NYT to stay out.... no reason at all!!
Agreed … I don't see how Apple will make a paid news/publication service survive with so much free content across the Internet. Heck, many people get their news in 140 character bytes from Twitter anyway
Agree, I feel like Apple put a lot of resources, energy and money into this for something to hard to contain. News and Magazine articles can be had so many different ways, from your local library online for free, to the publishers posting most their articles for free online or with their own subscription model.
Next, is Apple going to get in the news business and start hiring their own writers?
I just don’t see the point in this service. If Apple wants to be an aggregator based on the topics you like, great, but charging a service fee and wrangling a bunch of news content providers to play by Apple’s rules, to much work for little output.
Thanks, I forgot about this app, I used to have a free year subscription thru At&t.
Hate the game, not the player, right. Hopefully, people will just not buy into Apple services (News+, Arcade, ATV+, lastly, that stupid Apple Card). Can’t believe Apple has bought into the banking/credit card gig. That is so low. Apple is where it is today because of their quality OS/hardware eco system which has provided loyal customers for years.
The Apple board members need to question Tim Cook and the latest services concept. There are enough banks out there taking advantage of people with high interest rates, etc that Apple doesn’t need to join in. Unless Tim has realized that Apple’s ability to inovate is deminishing quickly. Sad that we don’t hear much from the great designer J. Ive lately and other senior team members who seem to be seen less and less at the Apple events.
Apple support has always been an issue with services like these. What makes publishers and users think that this time it will be any different. Oh, that’s right, Apple just bought out their competition and rebadged it as News+. No inovation here with that move, thanks Tim Cook. Once Apple realizes that they have to keep paying people to keep working on these services to stay relevant, they will quietly shut them down like they have done with other services in the past. Other than Apple Music and AppleCare, what services have they continued to support long term? I can’t think of any. As best as I can tell, even AppleCare appears to be managed by a 3rd party insurance company and I’m certain Apple makes at least 50% overall profit on that service.
I say don’t subscribe and maybe Apple will get back to creating quality OS and hardware products for its loyal user base. You know, what made Apple what it is today.
The Apple board members need to question Tim Cook and the latest services concept. There are enough banks out there taking advantage of people with high interest rates, etc that Apple doesn’t need to join in. Unless Tim has realized that Apple’s ability to inovate is deminishing quickly. Sad that we don’t hear much from the great designer J. Ive lately and other senior team members who seem to be seen less and less at the Apple events.
Apple support has always been an issue with services like these. What makes publishers and users think that this time it will be any different. Oh, that’s right, Apple just bought out their competition and rebadged it as News+. No inovation here with that move, thanks Tim Cook. Once Apple realizes that they have to keep paying people to keep working on these services to stay relevant, they will quietly shut them down like they have done with other services in the past. Other than Apple Music and AppleCare, what services have they continued to support long term? I can’t think of any. As best as I can tell, even AppleCare appears to be managed by a 3rd party insurance company and I’m certain Apple makes at least 50% overall profit on that service.
I say don’t subscribe and maybe Apple will get back to creating quality OS and hardware products for its loyal user base. You know, what made Apple what it is today.
The experience certainly leaves a great deal to be desired. You should be able to "favorite" magazines that would show up in "My Magazines" across ALL your devices, and the service should notify you (or automatically download, your choice) new issues when they be come available. That would be the MINIMUM I would expect.