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posted by martyb on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the where-do-you-put-the-tokens? dept.

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


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by hemocyanin on Wednesday March 27 2019, @05:23AM (2 children)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Wednesday March 27 2019, @05:23AM (#820493) Journal

    What seems nuts to me is that people can go to google new or bing news or $any news and get the same result for free. In fact, most major news sites just echo each other so you can get the same result by going to LA Times or NY Times, and if you want to cut out even more middlemen, just hit reuters or UPI or whatever. It's all the same mass market stuff.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Farkus888 on Wednesday March 27 2019, @06:58AM (1 child)

    by Farkus888 (5159) on Wednesday March 27 2019, @06:58AM (#820516)

    Not quite. No news aggregation service currently guarantees favorable coverage for the next bendgate or "your holding it wrong" scenario. Plus imagine the value for Apple when the new tech news in your news aggregation service doesn't ever mention Google and Android.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by VLM on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:06PM

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:06PM (#820639)

      If you thought the snowflakes melted down after the 2016 prez election, wait until the snowflakes are paying $10/per to get hyper censored echo chamber news and then reality slaps them in the face after the election, its gonna be epic. "I stuck my head in the sand and I don't understand how I can't see whats going on in the real world!"