Some Publishers Unhappy With Apple News+ Launch and Lack of Help From Apple

there you have it, the new apple under tim cook, but we are trolls and haters, i remember apple used to be real good at costumer support but just like everything else in apple, even that has declined, but of course that doesn’t have to do nothing with apple leadership, right. so not only the service sucks but also the support, welcome to the new apple, we only care about taking your money, after that you are in your own

things will have to go bad and from bad to worse untill we finally get rid of tim so then things can go back to be good once again

oh yes also cool because mr cook is not cool at all

the men simply kills the asmosphere with his precense

The quality of apples products and services have declined over the last couple of years. It's truly a shame, I was a hardened apple fan from 2005 - 2015. Now the only thing that continues to be top level are the damn prices.

Apple playing favorites...shocking.

I already canceled my trial. Absolutely horrible app/service/content/etc. Does not take advantage of devices well.

('https://www.macrumors.com/2019/04/15/some-apple-news-plus-publishers-unhappy/')
...Apple has not provided Apple-designed article or content templates to publishers and has "largely outsourced" templates to vendors, which has resulted in bugs and other issues, along with much more work for publishers."

That sums up just about everything that has gone wrong with Apple lately. They have the arrogance to try and claim to have improved the magazine reading experience, but leave the most important work off to some unknown 3rd party vendor because they're too cheap to do it themselves.

This explains their rationale behind removing functional ports from the MBs. Pat yourself on the back for a thin design... and then undercut your own design aesthetic by making users purchase ugly dongles because you're too cheap to include ports.

I subscribed for two days and then promptly unsubscribed. They are competing with free news services, cheap magazine subscriptions, and other content in the space. So 9.99 is the cost of a yearly magazine subscription. I would need to read 12 magazines to really get value out of the service.

I subscribed for two days and then promptly unsubscribed. They are competing with free news services, cheap magazine subscriptions, and other content in the space. So 9.99 is the cost of a yearly magazine subscription. I would need to read 12 magazines to really get value out of the service.

Agreed … I don't see how Apple will make a paid news/publication service survive with so much free content across the Internet. Heck, many people get their news in 140 character bytes from Twitter anyway :rolleyes:

Apple News+ did one good thing for me - helped me read a forum post that led me to Readly, which has literally 10 times as many magazines (including a few I actually read) compared to News+ for the same price.

From a customer point of view, I'm not impressed.

First, their subscription doesn't work the same way others do, for instance Apple Music. When I signed up for the 30 day trial, I went and cancelled it right away, expecting it to still be good for the 30 day period, and not auto-renew at the end. Instead, it cancelled immediately. There was no further offer of a trial, only to sign up.

I signed up with another family member's account, and got the trial again because of family sharing.

So far, I can't find back issues, at least for the magazines I like. The interface is confusing and inconsistent. I seem to have to go back to a magazine's table of contents to get to other parts of a magazine. But not always. I just don't understand how it works.

It needs to be like a book purchased in iBooks. The subscription (i.e. trial) should work the same as other Apple trials. I think it should be separate from News. Maybe a standalone iMagazine app. Back issues for everything.

Having said all that, I will not pay. Perhaps if the magazines had the ads removed, but I will not pay for content of any kind that is so heavy with ads. The ads should be paying for me to view. I don't care that "real" magazines are like that. This is the Internet. If you charge me for content on the Internet, remove the ads.

It's also a bit pricey. I'm not going to have a monthly Apple subscription for TV, another for Music, another for magazines, and another for some iCloud disk space -- all on top of the thousands I have paid for their devices.

I believe that it is this News+ thing that has made me realize that Apple has gone too far. I have now signed up for Spotify. It works on all my devices (e.g. no Apple Music on Alexa in Canada). Google Drive for my storage - I can share files or folders to people, the free allotment is bigger, and the prices much more reasonable if expanding. And I have NOT bought an iPhone XS or XR. The prices are just too much now.

If I need a magazine, I'll figure something out.

Tim Cook is the Steve Ballmer of Apple. Good enough for profit but has absolutely no idea what he's doing.

He's unfit to lead Apple.