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Wall Street Journal to Join Apple's News Subscription Service, but NYT and Washington Post Not Participating

Good, I don’t want the Washington Compost fake news anyways. I hope Apple gets as much as it wants, it owes it to its shareholders to after it flub last quarterly earning call regarding iPhone sales data.
 
The Wall Street Journal is the best news source on Earth, auto subbed.
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dannyyankou said:
WSJ is not left leaning, it's right leaning if anything.
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The news section is slightly center left, the editorials, right of center.

Overall, it's the most unbiased.... much more so than NYT or WP.
 
GordonGekko999 said:
Apologies if this has already been answered but will this include every article that an online digital WSJ subscriber would have access to? For example, if you subscribe to the digital NY Times, you get access to all of the website articles and you can read a separate replica edition which is a digital exact copy of the print paper, for the newspapers that sign with Apple, are they offering 100 percent of their content?
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I am pretty sure that is what Apple was trying to get publishers to agree to (full access to all articles new and old) but I think that was a sticking point for some of them. My best guess is that there will be a decent, but not huge, number of news sources signed up by the time of the announcement next Monday and that the number will grow over time.
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Naraxus said:
News & content curated by Apple? Yeah no thanks. I don't want Lil' Timmy's agenda shoved down my throat
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We won't know for sure until the official announcement but my understanding is that this will be full access to the content (at least new content and possibly older content) from the participating publishers. I will be disappointed if it is "curated" by Apple and we only have access to the stories that Apple decides to make available. I do not use the existing Apple News app because I always felt there was selection bias on the stories that showed up (or didn't) on that app. I really want this to work and to be able to get access to "behind the paywall" content from numerous, high quality news sources for one flat monthly fee.
 
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aaronhead14 said:
And zero people will pay for this service anyway, regardless of whether NYT or Washington Post are included. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I'd pay for it. I let my "special rate" NYT sub lapse recently and keep meaning to renew it. It was around $120/year IIRC and well worth it.

This sounds like a really good deal.
 
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brendu said:
I prefer WSJ over either of those outlets anyway. Their loss. I’m planning on giving this a try to see how it is. I don’t need wapo or NYT and their non stop #resistance anyway.
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What would really work in my opinion is if these guys instituted a system in which I pay for the article I want to read. I have had a subscription to NYT three times and three times I have unsubscribed to it. I just read fewer and fewer articles until I stop reading all together. Then later they publish something I want to read. Just make it per article. Sometimes the WSJ has something interesting. But not often enough to make me want to pay their high subscription price.

Where I am concerned, all of these publishers at one time or another have something I am interested in. But none of them have something I am interested in on a daily basis. So Apple’s model is appealing. Right now I have a subscription to the Washington post because its cheap enough and publishes something I want often enough to justify the cost.

I like Apple’s news app a lot. I think this is a good idea. I guess we’ll see if that’s right or not. I do like that Apple is keeping our info out of their hands. I don’t like the whole BIG DATA thing going on. I just want to read an article here and there. Why they want so much info on top of me paying for access is beyond me. If they want it to make more money, just charge more for the access to the article and stop selling our data. I’m not okay with what they are doing with our data.
 
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PKoz said:
What would really work in my opinion is if these guys instituted a system in which I pay for the article I want to read. I have had a subscription to NYT three times and three times I have unsubscribed to it. I just read fewer and fewer articles until I stop reading all together. Then later they publish something I want to read. Just make it per article. Sometimes the WSJ has something interesting. But not often enough to make me want to pay their high subscription price.
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Nicely put. 100% agree.
 
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I use to subscribe to the NY Times, but the same article can be found in different section of the publication
and additionally the same stories can be found elsewhere in different news outlets...no need to pay news is free...
 
I thought this would be all left-wing news, like Apple normally sends us from Apple News. Glad to hear the WSJ are onboard and the Washington Compost is not. I might give it a shot.
 
Frankied22 said:
Can’t wait to see this flop. Apple are in la la land with this one. The majority of people don’t give a **** about paying for news. The written word is free all over the internet.
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I’m sure they’d be more than happy if even a tiny minority of people subscribed, in turn launching the equivalence of yet another Fortune 100 company.

Many people recognize the value in, subscribe to and support quality long form journalism. Otherwise, it’s often just outrage and ad-driven infotainment.
 
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RickGrimes said:
Good they can keep the other two hack newspapers out AFAIC.
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I'm still surprised that some iOS users aren't aware you can block news sources from showing up when browsing the News app. That way you can protect yourself from things like facts and the truth if you so choose.

I know those things can be a pesky nuisance sometimes to an otherwise sheltered existence.
 
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I’m in for this reason alone:

“Apple is also declining to provide credit card information or email addresses to publishers, details that news sites use to create customer databases and market their products, and they're asking partners to provide unlimited access to content.”

Hopefully there’s a family subscription plan!
 
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FIFTY percent for a new service no one knows if it will even take off? You would think those newspaper have the upper hand in this case. Not surprised those others didn’t join.
 
Frankied22 said:
Can’t wait to see this flop. Apple are in la la land with this one. The majority of people don’t give a **** about paying for news. The written word is free all over the internet.
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Not really. The news as it is distributed online today is a total mess. Its fragmented and difficult to follow, unless you're married to one publication. I am subscribed to the NYT, so I get all of it, and I can save and clip and do all kinds of things, right there in the NYT interface. But that limits me only to the NYT, which is sucky...

Now, what Apple are proposing to do is FIX that problem, by making that kind of interface available across publications. This is amazing, if they can pull it off. And because its Apple, and they do these kinds of things quite well, I can only imaging the implementation alone will be worth the price of admission. Also -- don't forget -- If its the right price, and they continue precedent from Apple Music giving students half-price access, this is gonna be a total rager of a hit.

I will be a day one subscriber to this service.
[doublepost=1553153312][/doublepost]Also, rather amazing how many people in the MacRumors forums who are more or less outing themselves as not reading the news. What was it Thomas Jefferson said?
  • Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
 
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This kind of subscription service exists where I am, I imagine it does everywhere so I don't see it's big news.
I have it free with my phone service and there's another one that costs €9.99 a month, and you have access to hundreds of news 'papers' and magazines.
Like this service:
https://youboox.fr
I hate it. Maybe Apple will do something different but they try to give you an experience like the real thing so it's a bit like those online catalogues for windows or kitchens that you come across sometimes.
You get to see the cover as it is exactly on the newsstand and they you get to flip through it like you would on the newsstand, and it just doesn't work.
It's either too big to see anything small,or you have to go to controls to zoom in, or it's really slow because the pages are huge or you have to move a carat to move the whole thing around...
It's just is a miserable experience trying to make a medium designed for paper replicate the experience online.
I do hope they come up with something different but I think the magazines want to retain control and I'm not sure they will.
 
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