– Tony Haile (@arctictony) August 10, 2020
This addresses one of the more frustrating elements of being a News+ subscriber: Although your $9.99 monthly subscription gets you access to paywalled stories from publishers like The New Yorker and the Wall Street Journal, you only get access via the News app — not the publishers’ websites. So I’ve often seen something I want to read on Google or Twitter, but instead of clicking the link, I have to open the News app and track down the story.
So it turns out that this deserves to greatly improve the reader experience, this would possibly be a little disconcerting at first. And this only applies to News subscribers, who are registered but will have the option to disable the “Open web links in News” feature in their News settings.
But, as Haile pointed out, publishers would possibly be less excited about the change: “Any strategic justification that Apple News represents a different channel/audience has disappeared. This cannibalizes directly to an editor’s main subscription audience.”
A November 2019 cnBC tale: Recommending the service had trouble attracting new subscribers after signing 200,000 users within 48 hours of its release. And Digiday reported that publishers were disappointed with their income. “Data-reactid – 32”: Although Apple has posted subscriber numbers on News, several reports, which added a CNBC article in November 2019, recommend that the service has had trouble attracting new subscribers after signing up with 200,000 users within 48 hours of launch. And Digiday reported that publishers have been inundated with revenue.
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