Apple News Drives Significant Traffic to Stories, Publishers Can Pitch Articles via Slack

My only complaint with Apple News is the lack of a macOS application. I enjoy reading it on my iPad, but I'd love to have the same ability on my MBP.

That would be horrible news, especially for a company that prides itself on privacy, consumer protection, and anti-tracking technology (in Safari).

Agreed, this instantly came to my mind as well, I don't want google to infest my iPhone.

Apple has supposedly begun to run a closed test of Google's industry standard ad-serving tool DoubleClick

That would be horrible news, especially for a company that prides itself on privacy, consumer protection, and anti-tracking technology (in Safari).

I read articles through Apple News every day and really appreciate the ability to choose the content sources and themes I want to read. Are there ads? I'm so trained to ignore them that if there are ads I clearly don't notice them. I even let Fox News content show up because it's so damn amusing and who's doesn't the occasional SMH moment? No offense to Fox News readers, you probably feel the same way about CNN. But thanks to Apple News I've discovered news sites I didn't know existed before and I will visit those sites as well for additional content.

Regardless of what you think of Fox versus CNN, the ability to not just read things you agree with is a sign of maturity. Something a large portion of the population (on all sides) could use a bit more of!

The algorithms on Apple News are a lot better than what I was dealing with on Android. On HTC 10 I was fed a constant stream of horrific news about murders and violence and tabloid style news. I have no idea what I must have looked at or clicked on but I was also endlessly treated to a stream of bizarre news about a planet full of demons that was going to enter our solar system (the date keeps moving) and destroying us all.

I was so happy to get back to Apple News when I switched from my HTC 10 to my iPhone SE. The HTC 10 was one of my top five favorite phones but the news on it nearly made me need therapy. :p

I have many, many criticisms of Apple services but Apple News is not one of them. I do not fault them for the abysmal state of news these days.

As a political moderate who tries to keep an open mind, I do find the state of accuracy and objectivity in news reporting absolutely appalling. I’m old enough to remember it was never perfect, but it did really used to be better than how it currently is.

Through my husband’s industry contacts we get to find out the REAL state of a lot of things and the major news organizations on both sides of the political spectrum have so many things so wrong.

This is the one tiny area where I lean toward the conspiracy theory side of news and wonder if it’s just down to a small handful of extremely wealthy and powerful people on opposing sides using their wealth and influence to manipulate us all.

Because the news really is so badly skewed in so many areas from economics to oil to the environment and don’t even get me started on social engineering on both sides. If it were really about informing people, even for profit, the style of reporting would not be so inflammatory. Doctors make an effort to be neutral to their patients. I would have thought it would be a matter of professional pride for journalists to be neutral at least some of the time, but almost all news is heavily editorialized now.

Question everything!

I’m ever so grateful that for the most part, when I step away from the internet and talk to people in the real world usually things are so much more functional and positive than the news would lead us to believe. The only time I have a problem is when I’m dealing with people who have let themselves be manipulated by the news.

I read articles through Apple News every day and really appreciate the ability to choose the content sources and themes I want to read. Are there ads? I'm so trained to ignore them that if there are ads I clearly don't notice them. I even let Fox News content show up because it's so damn amusing and who's doesn't the occasional SMH moment? No offense to Fox News readers, you probably feel the same way about CNN. But thanks to Apple News I've discovered news sites I didn't know existed before and I will visit those sites as well for additional content.

Since apple has decided to curate news, i wish they would make more effort to suppress articles that are nothing more than clickbait.

most news outlets are just terrible these days, and not to mention all the click bate you get....

Apple news goes into junk folder.

I like Apple News. Like someone earlier said, I wish there was a macOS counterpart.

The only thing I wish it had was an "all the way back to the first screen" type back button. Sometimes I dive so deep down the rabbit hole it takes forever to go back, one-by-one, to return to the front page.

(Unless there is a way and I haven't figured it out... If there is, please, do tell!)