Apple unveils its $9.99 per month news subscription service, Apple News+
News.cn/en/tag/i0xagnnjf0e3105aed7821/index.html" target="_blank">News.cn/en/tag/i0xadknd6ba31204aa8f4b/index.html" target="_blank">Apple">News.cn/en/tag/i0xagnnjf0e3105aed7821/index.html" target="_blank">News.cn/en/tag/i0xadknd6ba31204aa8f4b/index.html" target="_blank">Apple today unveiled a revamped News.cn/en/tag/i0xagnnjf0e3105aed7821/index.html" target="_blank">News.cn/en/tag/i0xadknd6ba31204aa8f4b/index.html" target="_blank">Apple News.cn/en/tag/i0xagnnjf0e3105aed7821/index.html" target="_blank">News app which now includes a premium tier called News.cn/en/tag/i0xagnnjf0e3105aed7821/index.html" target="_blank">News.cn/en/tag/i0xadknd6ba31204aa8f4b/index.html" target="_blank">Apple News.cn/en/tag/i0xagnnjf0e3105aed7821/index.html" target="_blank">News+, offering access to over 300 magazines and News.cn/en/tag/i0xagnnjf0e3105aed7821/index.html" target="_blank">Newspapers for $9.99 per month. At launch, the subscription includes magazine titles like Bon Appétit, People and Glamour, along with top publishers like The Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times, among others.
TechCrunch’s premium product, Extra Crunch, is among the new participants.
“When we created News.cn/en/tag/i0xagnnjf0e3105aed7821/index.html" target="_blank">News.cn/en/tag/i0xadknd6ba31204aa8f4b/index.html" target="_blank">Apple News.cn/en/tag/i0xagnnjf0e3105aed7821/index.html" target="_blank">News over three years ago, we wanted to provide the best way to read the News.cn/en/tag/i0xagnnjf0e3105aed7821/index.html" target="_blank">News on your iPhone and iPad,” said News.cn/en/tag/i0xagnnjf0e3105aed7821/index.html" target="_blank">News.cn/en/tag/i0xadknd6ba31204aa8f4b/index.html" target="_blank">Apple CEO Tim Cook, in introducing the company’s plans for News.cn/en/tag/i0xagnnjf0e3105aed7821/index.html" target="_blank">News.cn/en/tag/i0xadknd6ba31204aa8f4b/index.html" target="_blank">Apple News.cn/en/tag/i0xagnnjf0e3105aed7821/index.html" target="_blank">News+. “And we felt we can make a difference in the way that News.cn/en/tag/i0xagnnjf0e3105aed7821/index.html" target="_blank">News is experienced and understood – a place where the News.cn/en/tag/i0xagnnjf0e3105aed7821/index.html" target="_blank">News would come from trusted sources and be curated by experts,” he added.
The subscription introduces a new design feature called “Live Covers,” which shows animated images instead of static photos for the magazine’s cover. Inside the digital magazine’s pages, readers can view a table of contents, swipe through beautifully designed pages filled with text, photos and infographic content, and more. The experience looks very much like the popular digital magazine app, Flipboard.
The magazine publishers can also express their own unique look and feel through their design and photography, noted News.cn/en/tag/i0xagnnjf0e3105aed7821/index.html" target="_blank">News.cn/en/tag/i0xadknd6ba31204aa8f4b/index.html" target="_blank">Apple designer Wyatt Mitchell, in presenting the new feature.
The News.cn/en/tag/i0xagnnjf0e3105aed7821/index.html" target="_blank">News+ tab is where you can begin to explore the available magazines, while the Today tab features more recommendations of articles and issues. The service will also customize itself to your interests, but won’t do so by tracking what you read.
Instead, News.cn/en/tag/i0xagnnjf0e3105aed7821/index.html" target="_blank">News.cn/en/tag/i0xadknd6ba31204aa8f4b/index.html" target="_blank">Apple says the service will download groups of articles from its servers. And then it uses on device intelligence to make recommendations. That means News.cn/en/tag/i0xagnnjf0e3105aed7821/index.html" target="_blank">News.cn/en/tag/i0xadknd6ba31204aa8f4b/index.html" target="_blank">Apple won’t know what you read and won’t allow advertisers to track you either.
When you subscribe, your whole family can access the magazines through News.cn/en/tag/i0xagnnjf0e3105aed7821/index.html" target="_blank">News.cn/en/tag/i0xadknd6ba31204aa8f4b/index.html" target="_blank">Apple Family Sharing, for the same price.
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