The organization of Apple News Plus didn't impress us when we tested the app, but at least Apple's come up with more creative ways to pay for the service. Apple has also introduced audio stories, including a daily audio briefing on the most pressing news. This $9.99/month subscription service offers access to more than 300 different magazines like Time, Sports Illustrated, and Wired, as well as premium articles from The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times. As of iOS 14, a home screen widget serves up headlines without you having to even open the app.īut as part of Apple's push into services, the company has beefed up its new app, adding News Plus in 2019. The Feed learns and improves its choices based on your reading habits. Editor-curated feeds catch you up on the latest headlines and special interest pieces, while a personalized newsfeed lets you select your favorite topics. "The soul of a website is the content, but it gets narrowed down to a box.Apple's News app comes pre-installed on your iPhone or iPad, offering up a wealth of news stories from a variety of sources. but at the same time we have engineered out the soul," McCue said today. "As an industry, we are good at using data to look at every square inch of the screen and maximize it for clickthrough. Content is instantly refreshed and curated by you or your friends via social feeds like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Readers can literally "flip" through media content page by page as if they were thumbing through a print magazine or a personal journal-except Flipboard is like a living, breathing publication that changes over time. Google is also rumored to be developing its own social-magazine app under the name "Propeller."įlipboard is social, it streams, and it scales. Competitors include Zite, recently scooped up by CNN for an estimated $20 million, Pulse, Evri and AOL's Editions, which launched in early August.
With $60 million in venture funding, the one-year-old Flipboard has rapidly become the touch-tablet app to beat.
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