It's free for a reason. It's profiling you so it can generate more adverts that you're likely to click on. Scary just how relevant and fresh your news feed is huh! That's no coincidence.
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Apple News+ Just a really poor app – what is wrong with Apple's devs nowadays?
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I agree with News App complaints. I've never opted in to anything, never set anything up, but get pop ups once or twice a day for articles that are behind paywalls. It seems like such a featured part of the OS, but is clearly just annoying and cumbersome for most users. I turned off notifications, but you would think it wouldn't be so painful to walk the free and unintrusive route.
I miss the days when opting out of payment for digital media was simple. It will be fun to tell my grandkids about the old times.
I miss the days when opting out of payment for digital media was simple. It will be fun to tell my grandkids about the old times.
The 'TC Approach' is to throw a bunch of ideas out there and see what sticks.
Granted, Apple have always made at least some poor software, but I feel like the ratio has increased dramatically over recent years as they've tried to dip their finger into too many pies.
Granted, Apple have always made at least some poor software, but I feel like the ratio has increased dramatically over recent years as they've tried to dip their finger into too many pies.
At this point I’m not going to be surprised if Apple ventures into agriculture sector and provide AI solutions to corporations who are interested in that in the future.
Family member already has a combine and closed-cab tractor with factory CarPlay.
Please elaborate on that. Because just like Microsoft and Google, they have more than enough cash in the bank to do basically whatever they want.
Apple makes their own hardware, their own operating system and their own applications. If anything, they're one of the few companies in the world to control the full stack, along with game consoles, Google with their Pixel phones and a handful of small companies making open hardware that runs a distro of Linux.
So what's happening here? Why can't Apple have good software like they did a decade or two ago? What changed, internally at Apple? Did they get rid of a centralized QA team, whose job was to also make sure that, for example, the weather app on the iPhone displayed the information in the same format as the Apple watch? Because unless the latest updates fixed it, it's not. My Apple watch displays the temperature at the top and the time at the bottom while my iPhone does exactly the inverse.
What's needed is someone at the top who has a clear view of what the future hardware and software should be for the users. Someone who cares about the users, not the shareholders. Someone who actively uses a Mac, not an iPad. Someone who cares more about the company's future than what the spreadsheet numbers need to be six months from now.
Tim still seems to be the master of the supply chain. He's clearly good with numbers and profit margins, but he's no leader and certainly no visionary. What's the point of Apple having billions in the bank if they cannot even maintain their own standards from one of two decades ago?
I think most Apple users care about such small details. But when the company no longer care about their loyal users, all they're left with is users who wouldn't blink twice about switching to another ecosystem. After all, if Apple becomes as bad as Microsoft then what's the point of overpaying for Apple's hardware and locking ourselves in their ecosystem?
We don't want Apple to fail, we want Apple to do better.
Same here. I've had an Apple one premier (haha) subscription for years and was so looking forward to crisp, clean news.
Boy, was I wrong. Apple news is junk. I open it about once a year to see if anything has changed and it is always such a load of frustrating, time-wasting junk. I only keep the subscription for 2TB iCloud (good), Fitness (good), Apple TV (good, but sparse) and Apple music (lousy UX, but tolerable otherwise)
Just bought "News Explorer" too. Thanks @Apple_Robert for the recommendation. Looks really good. A steal at $5.
My recommendation is to stop reading news entirely.
Unless your job is related to the news, there is nothing you need to know. You can't change anything and 90%+ is just clickbait without nuance anyway. And if there is something really important, somebody will text you about it. Let your friends aggregate for you and then go about your day without yelling at the clouds in the sky.
Unless your job is related to the news, there is nothing you need to know. You can't change anything and 90%+ is just clickbait without nuance anyway. And if there is something really important, somebody will text you about it. Let your friends aggregate for you and then go about your day without yelling at the clouds in the sky.
It's money. That's the motivation behind Apple bending its own App Store rules and why some developers try to get away with things—and they do.
Tim and all of his executive buddies would just milk apple for as long as they can before packing up and moving out, leaving the company dry and die. After all, even if Tim is sacked now, he already earned way more enough for him and his family, several generations over.
Unfortunately only shareholders have a say on that. And if their collective will is demanding Apple to fail (regardless of their true intention is), Apple will fail regardless of customer support.
Images are the biggest pain point for me. In many Apple News+ articles you can’t pinch-to-zoom an inline image, and on far too many of them you also can’t tap to open a larger, standalone view. That means anything with detail—maps, charts, infographics, screenshots —becomes a squinting exercise on a phone. Even rotating to landscape rarely helps; the image just sits there, small and fixed, with no way to inspect the finer points.
This isn’t just an annoyance, it undercuts the journalism. If an image carries key information, readers need basic tools to examine it.
Great point. Apple puts the layout decisions of the publisher ahead of the user.
The reason is probably copyright related. I think the whole reason why the News app is so poor is related to rights, in fact. I suspect Apple probably presented the app to these corporate content providers, got it signed off, and now can't change it without asking them again. And that's expensive and difficult. For whatever reason, Apple failed to build in vital features before they showed it to the content providers, like proper accessibility, or the ability to view images full-screen. It's just a hot mess.