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Apple just announced Apple News Plus, a news subscription service for $9.99 a month
Apple announced a new subscription news service, Apple News Plus, on Monday during an event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California. Starting Monday, the company said, Apple News Plus will curate articles from more than 300 news outlets and magazines via the Apple News app for $9.99 a month.
Apple says magazines and articles included with the Apple News Plus subscription will appear in a new tab on the Apple News app in a redesign released later Monday as part of an iOS software update.
Apple News Plus will feature content from several major news outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Vox, and the Los Angeles Times as well as the more than 300 magazines that were included with Texture, the digital magazine app Apple purchased last year. Notably absent among national news brands are The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Though Apple's app offers a significant discount for publications like The [Wall Street] Journal, which charges $19.50 a month for an all-access digital subscription, it appears that Apple subscribers will not have full access to all the partners' content. Reports Monday cited an internal memo as saying only some Journal articles, for example, would be offered via Apple News Plus, with The Journal's business reporting remaining exclusive to direct subscribers.
Apple Arcade Announced: New Game Subscription Service Coming To iOS, Mac, Apple TV This Year
Apple is expanding its presence in the games industry with its own game subscription service. Named Apple Arcade, the service is designed to provide access to titles for mobile, desktop, and the living room. Unlike Google's Stadia, however, it won't stream the games from the cloud.
[...] Essentially, Apple's service takes the form of a monthly subscription that provides unlimited access to a curated selection of paid titles on the App Store; it sounds sort of like Xbox Game Pass. [...] Apple Arcade covers more than just iOS games, although these will work on devices like iPhones and iPads. Beyond that, you'll be able to play on MacOS and Apple TV, meaning these games span mobile, laptops, and TV. And these versions won't operate independently of each other; your progress transfers between the different platforms.
Also at Reuters.
Previously: Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service
New York Times CEO Warns About Apple News Service
Related: Google and Microsoft Eyeing Streaming Game Services
Google Announces "Stadia" Streaming Game Service
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:15AM (4 children)
Please, don't do like the green site and post an article for every Apple brochure that came out the other day.
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:31AM (1 child)
Why not? This is newsworthy, as are most product announcements from major tech companies.
It will be interesting to see just what happens to Apple News as a result of this announcement. The current iteration is an aggregation service based on your reading history and stated preferences. It does a pretty good job of serving up articles that I find interesting, though it's easy to see how it can create an echo chamber for its users. I do occasionally break out and visit a MSM news front page to see if there's anything out there I'm missing (there usually isn't). Anyway, my point is that Apple News Plus would need to offer something significantly different than Apple News to convince me to pay $10 per month for something I (mostly?) get for free today. Whether that is by providing something new and amazing in Plus, or just crippling the regular Apple News, remains to be seen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @06:36AM
I am fascinated that you find that interesting. A news aggregator is newsworthy? The Mac Pro might be newswothry. These silly trinkets not so much.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:34AM (1 child)
I felt that splitting the News+ one (Arcade is along for the ride) and the Credit Card one would be better.
With the Credit Card one, you get to talk about how Apple is unveiling its shiniest dumb status symbol ever and getting deeper into banking. With the News+ one, we see the launch of Apple's attempt to control online news revenue and distribution.
Putting them back to back? Well, we know who to blame.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @06:43AM
Let's hold off until we get some Mac Pro news. This stuff is just so much.. one click emo shit. OY! I wish Joan Rivers was alive to host the Apple Shopping Channel... She was assassinated you know, and they got away with it.