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Apple Further Expanding Into Ads, Now Directly Selling Ads in News App
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Yup I'm a News+ subscriber (through One Premier) and I get ads on all the News+ articles.
No cure for stupid and lazy.
Books are cool, you can read them multiple time and they never change their story. I have a couple of thousand.
That’s just false.
My kids (teens) and the wife and I play board games or cards every evening after dinner, they are ardent readers and visit friends often.
I personally read a lot more than I watch video, and I spend most of my free time outside in warm weather.
I don't understand watching YouTube when you can quickly read an news article on whatevernewssite.com.
I agree totally. The problem is that our educational system is now graduating students who can’t read, can’t add or subtract, and have no critical thinking skills.
I know you’re kidding in many ways (there are ads on macrumors), but I think a lot of people here, really believe the Apple News app is all Apple related-news. But it’s so obviously a news aggregator, just like Apple Fitness isn’t all about Tim Cook’s morning workout.
Apple isn't going to do it, they will outsource it. Apple will licence their shows to other companies and they will insert ads.
Go buy a paper copy of a magazine or newspaper, or subscribe to one. Does your 'paid copy' have ads in it? It does? Why do you suppose that is? Is it unmitigated greed, or could it be that your purchase price alone isn't enough to cover the costs of generating the content within?Ads for a paid service. nice.
The last several decades of internet content distribution has had the unfortunate effect of training people to think that there are few or no costs involved in creating music, the written word, film or television.
There's a reason that there's now very little news coverage of your local and state government, and that national news coverage is dominated by talking heads, skewed opinions and hot takes. Nobody wants to pay for thorough, sober journalism. The business model for national news relies too heavily on drama and outrage to attract readers and viewers. Apparently that business model doesn't scale down well enough to work in smaller markets.
So sure, individual publications or newsstand aggregations like Apple News+ could probably offer a paid, ad-free tier, but you wouldn't like the price.
That said, there's a balance to be found, and I absolutely wish more ad departments would lean into a model that really touts the quality of the content as the draw, and then pushes the idea that fewer ads increase the effectiveness of actually reaching the audience and is worth paying a higher rate to get that more exclusive spot.
I don't use the News app. But if this is the start of Apple showing ads in Apple apps, I'll bail on apple completely and move to a linux laptop and GrapheneOS on a pixel phone.
I already find Apple's software a bit buggy lately, and limited in what it allows me to do, I guess I just need a big enough reason to say buh-bye forever.
I already find Apple's software a bit buggy lately, and limited in what it allows me to do, I guess I just need a big enough reason to say buh-bye forever.
Lol we will circle back to this in due time because if you think they won't add ads to double dip then you really have your head buried in the sand.