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Tim Cook: 40 Million People are Using Apple News

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Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed Apple News usage numbers for the first time during today's fourth quarter earnings call, announcing the service has approximately 40 million users.

Cook did not specify whether that number represented people who use the Apple News app on a regular basis or if it simply measured the number of people who have accessed the app at one point or another, so it's still difficult to gauge the popularity of Apple News.

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Introduced alongside iOS 9, Apple News was initially restricted to the United States, but with the launch of iOS 9.1, Apple News expanded to the UK and Australia for the first time.

Apple News is an all-new app for iOS 9 that's designed to aggregate stories from a wide range of sources into a single mobile-friendly format for the iPhone and the iPad. It's similar in design to magazine-style news apps like Flipboard and Zite and replaces the previous Apple Newsstand app.

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I rarely launch the News app directly (never got into Flipboard either; good ol' RSS and Feedly for me).

But I do very often find interesting News app stories on "home page zero" to the left, and I tap those. I really like that suggested stories feature, much to my surprise. On paper, it sounded like a feature I'd ignore and forget.

Partly I'm liking it because I keep finding stories I was not hearing about via my other usual news sources. Plus it's so easy to just swipe over there and take peek.
 
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Kajje said:
Tim have I got some news for you: perhaps people outside the US also like to use the app, even with the same US content.
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They're expanding. With iOS 9 I was able to access the Apple News app, and I'm from south america. I guess soon enough it'll be in other countries, if it's already here...
 
I always forget to use it. I set it up but haven't done much with it—still stuck in my old patterns! Twitter is a big source of news for me.
 
I suspect that they're counting people who have opened the app only once in that number. Technically, that's still a "user" of the app but it's not a regular user of the app. If they were counting regular users of the app, they probably would've been more specific (i.e. 40 million users each week).
 
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The app just seems to do what it likes with me. I deleted a load of favourites but their stories still show up on my For You feed. Seems pointless setting favourites at all.
 
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I also use it daily. After apple news I barely use flip board, and stopped using Twitter altogether.

It's lacking some features (eg muting particular sources), but I like it and manage to find really interesting content I wouldn't otherwise have found.
 
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It's really a nice feature - gives free access to news and magazines that are generally behind a paywall
 
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