Paid subscription offerings like Apple Music and Apple News+ are increasingly important to Apple, as a complement to the company’s rip-roaring sales of hardware like iPhones. Best Buy is currently offering deals, whereby users can sign up for 6-month free trial periods of both Apple Music and Apple News+, for a savings of $60 each. …
Apple on Tuesday unveiled its expected Apple subscription bundle, which packs myriad subscription service offerings from the iPhone maker into an a single paid offering. The services included with an Apple One subscription, depending on which tier is chosen, include Apple Arcade, Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple News+, and more. On a related note, Apple …
Apple News and Flipboard have been fighting for primacy among consumers who seek out apps focused exclusively on news consumption. Flipboard has been differentiating itself lately with new features like a greater emphasis on local news content. That’s something that Apple News has now decided to go after, as well. In addition to local news …
In the age of the coronavirus and with other major news stories reshaping our world right now including everything from Trump administration policies to the Black Lives Matter movement, mobile apps like Apple News and Flipboard have become more useful than ever. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at the features of both, …
If you caught the headlines on Tuesday about the departure of the head of business for Apple’s news app, which added a paid tier last year and is trying to convince people to pay $10/month as part of the iPhone maker’s deeper push into subscription products, it might have left a certain impression with you …
Just a couple of weeks after Apple TV+ officially launched to the public, Bloomberg reports that Apple is considering bundling Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Apple News+ as soon as 2020 in order to attract more subscribers. This plan has been rumored for quite some time, but sources say that Apple has made deals with …
There are certainly some big omissions from Apple’s new premium news bundle, Apple News+, given that media companies like The New York Times and The Washington Post chose to keep their content outside of this new subscription offering despite an intense lobbying effort from Apple. Nevertheless, the company must surely be pleased with the reception …
Just hours after the dates for Apple’s 2019 Worldwide Developers Conference were reportedly uncovered, details of yet another Apple event have been revealed. On Tuesday, sources told BuzzFeed News that Apple is planning to hold its first event of the year on March 25th at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California. The focus of …
Just over a month after Apple acquired digital magazine app Texture, Bloomberg reports that the company is planning to integrate the service into Apple News and launch its own premium news subscription service. People familiar with the plans tell Bloomberg that Texture’s technology and remaining employees have been merged with the Apple News team, which is …
