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Apple CEO Tim Cook alluded to more services coming this year, and this week we're learning more about what the company has in store for news. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Apple has been in talks with publishers about a subscription news service that would be a new paid tier of its existing Apple News app. However, the company has been butting heads with publishers over monetary details—Apple reportedly wants to keep 50 percent of subscription revenue from the service.
[...] In addition, Apple wouldn't share customer data with publishers. Information including credit card numbers and email addresses would not be provided to publishers if they agreed to Apple's terms as they currently stand. That information can be crucial for publishers to grow their subscriber base, market new products to readers, and more.
Will news publishers take half of the subscription revenue and forego money from customer profiling and tracking?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday February 13 2019, @08:09PM (3 children)
And everybody overestimates the willingness of the consumers to subscribe to 20 different $10/month services.
(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Wednesday February 13 2019, @10:34PM
exactly - Netflix, Amazon - everything else "da interwebs". Not paying for a 3rd.
We live in an age of massive over-saturation of media. I would say however that such news as The Atlantic, Medium and The Financial Times, and occasionally WSJ/NYT are often quite high quality.
The problem is news is no long fact based. Too many "may happen, seems like, opinions etc etc." ad nauseum, rather than objective analysis of events.
Added to insane politics with dogma ruling everything, and $CORPS voting *twice* (once as human, then again as company).
Apple is probably going to make $$, but nothing like the success of Itunes.
My $0.02...
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday February 14 2019, @02:06AM
Yeah. Because, you know, in their mind, a subscription is the only imaginable way to access a content.
I seem to remember a time where you could pay cents/pennies for a newspaper bought on the street; also remember rumors of a place where a nickel would allow you to see a movie with a roof over your head [wikipedia.org] - but maybe my mind grew old and these are figments of my imagination.
As it also be only my imagination saying that an internet-enabled micro-payment site is not a quite that hard a technological challenge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday February 14 2019, @11:18AM
My peak salary was $130k in 2008, my peak hourly was $120 in Y2K.
When I joined the Cub Scouts, Mom bought me a subscription to Boy's Life. That I do such things as "Hi, my name's Mike, what's yours?" to a _floridly_ paranoid and angry young meth-head at Starbucks the other day is due to Boy's Life monthly feature of a Boy Scout, a Cub or a Scouring Alumnus saving the life of another. In some issues, they gave their own lives by doing so.
In Eighth Grade, I subscribed to Analog and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. In High School, Galileo and Omni as well.
Get This: Omni's typeface, text page template and just about everything other than the... photographs... was Just Like Penthouse, because Guccione published Omni too. That led Mom to believe I'd sit quietly reading "The Insightful Articles" every evening, and all day on weekends.
My last couple years of High School, I subscribed to the Journal Of The Astronomical Society Of The Pacific.
But as an adult? Nothing.
If it weren't for the crisis that dead-tree publishers are facing, I never would. But I recently decided that I'd have The Columbian and The Oregonian dead trees delivered to NedSpace, quite likely The New York Times as well.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]