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Tim Cook: 40 Million People are Using Apple News

It's too slow to refresh. I would use it a lot more if it did a background refresh or was able to update as quick as other apps such as Flipboard does. It is a nicer interface but if I don't open it for a week it seems to take forever to gather articles from then to now.
 
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fitshaced said:
It's too slow to refresh. I would use it a lot more if it did a background refresh or was able to update as quick as other apps such as Flipboard does. It is a nicer interface but if I don't open it for a week it seems to take forever to gather articles from then to now.
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It does background refresh if you have the app open and in the background. If you have a lot of channels it will take longer to refresh since it refreshes everything at once and the only time that really affects you is of you don't have the app running in the background for automatic refresh or if you're doing a manual refresh.
 
40 million lucky people! Apple News isn't even available here up north. Neither is Apple Pay...for now.
 
ke-iron said:
It does background refresh if you have the app open and in the background. If you have a lot of channels it will take longer to refresh since it refreshes everything at once and the only time that really affects you is of you don't have the app running in the background for automatic refresh or if you're doing a manual refresh.
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Nope and nope. It doesn't refresh for me and i don't have many channels.
 
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appledefenceforce said:
I see no irony in your post. But if saying that makes you sleep better at night then good for you.
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The irony is that you are laughing about apple zealots being up in arms, yet your username screams that you are one of those very people you are laughing about.

Irony, pure and true.

BL.
 
Well, I'd love to use it... in iOS 8. It looks like Google News but a lot nicer. I like it when Apple makes tools that reformat stuff to look nice, like Safari's Reader function.

miknos said:
Not better than using an RSS Reader. In my case, Reeder.
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Too bad Apple killed off all the RSS features in OS X (WHY??). I used RSS until Mail dropped it. Didn't feel like messing with third-party solutions.
 
I might be one of those people, only cause I saw a new app I did not install and was curious.

marcr1230 said:
It's really a nice feature - gives free access to news and magazines that are generally behind a paywall
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For now ....... ;)
 
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Pock said:
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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This is one of the annoying things for me too.

I would also like the ability to hide a particular news story or from a particular news organisation. Should be a simply swipe and option to hide/delete from the News app like in Mail.
 
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Hey Macrumors/Arn, how much % of your revenue are you making from readers using Apple News? Is it actually displaying any ads at all?
 
Now all they need to do is finish it and release it to the rest of us. Strange that the 'Apple News Format' still hasn't been made available.
 

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bushido said:
theres too much content so i feel overwhelmed and end up not reading anything at all lol first world problems

also theres too much white
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Agreed on both parts. I think the white looks too minimal and "not finished".

The content is just a mish mash of anything to do vaguely with a topic I've liked, so everytime I refresh there are tens more stories to look at and I just lose context. It's kind of like maintaining an eye on a Twitter feed with lots of input - just gets a little too much after a while.
 
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I really like it. I used to use Flipboard, then News360, then self-hosting Fever, but I find the quality and selection of the articles the best in Apple News.
 
Been all over the news net, and it always comes down to the same pattern: I have to go to Drudge to find news that others skipped or hid, and to see it all in a concise manner. Apple News is no different.
 
Well now its available in the UK I'm probably included in that 40m number.

It's an okay service. It's showing me content that I don't care about, and some news accounts I follow want me to visit their page to finish reading a story (please don't do that). But its early days.
 
Waxhead138 said:
Tim Cook: 40 Million People are Using Apple News.....

.....While wishing it was Flipboard.
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Why would we wish it was Flipboard? They really painted themselves into a corner with that name. The 3D flipping gimmick was impressive and all when it was new, but it really just gets in the way of, you know, actually reading an article.

The way I use Apple News is probably similar to a lot of people here, skim the articles in Spotlight and tap them if there's anything interesting. Other than that I stick to Twitter and Reeder for my RSS feed.
 
ErikGrim said:
Why would we wish it was Flipboard? They really painted themselves into a corner with that name. The 3D flipping gimmick was impressive and all when it was new, but it really just gets in the way of, you know, actually reading an article.

The way I use Apple News is probably similar to a lot of people here, skim the articles in Spotlight and tap them if there's anything interesting. Other than that I stick to Twitter and Reeder for my RSS feed.
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I was being smart more than anything else. I have no issue with Apple News as of yet....I just happen to like the Flipping part, but admittedly that is more of a polish and style item. Not of any real consequense. Apple News seems to curate for me just fine, and that's the key item for me.
 
I use it daily. Literally once a day, in the morning. My main beef is that even over wi-fi, it takes forever to refresh the stories after a day of not being used. Flipboard and Zite both refresh much quicker.
 
I can say that very little Apple News traffic has shown up in the analytics of most large sites leading it to be a bit hard to believe that 40 million people are using it regularly.
 
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