“While everyone’s panicking about Facebook Instant Articles, I’ve seen something much more terrifying and exciting: Apple News,” Owen Williams writes for TNW. “The app, which will be installed on every iPhone that upgrades to iOS 9, is a new centralized home for content.”
“Apple News is fast, responsive and enjoyable to use. It puts everything I want to read in a single place, without the need to download a third-party app and it loads incredibly fast, thanks to the company’s content delivery network,” Williams writes. “It also recommends new sites you might enjoy following by learning what you read over time.”
“Apple News is a stripped-back, better alternative to heavy, slow news sites for your phone. You don’t need everyone’s individual apps anymore, just the one, that offers consistent, easy to read and distraction free news. That should be terrifying if your business is making money from online publishing,” Williams writes. “As ad blocking comes to Safari in iOS 9 for the first time, the app may become a safe haven where ad revenue is still paid to publishers. For small publishers that simply don’t have the resources to build their own native apps, it’s a huge opportunity to play in the big leagues and get content in front of more people without having to spend any money.”
“One major issue, though, is nobody knows what Apple’s ad payouts will look like and it’ll only allow one ad to be shown on each article, via its iAd network,” Williams writes. “Once Apple News is on everyone’s home screen, it could change the face of news forever… or it could just end up in another folder on your phone.”
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SEE ALSO:
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Apple News to have human curation – and that raises issues – June 15, 2015
How Apple’s mobile ad-blocker could backfire on the company and iPhone, iPad users – June 12, 2015
Hats off to Web advertising – no, really – July 6, 2015
Apple’s support of mobile ad blocking may upend how the web works – June 12, 2015
We will still come and visit daily MDN!
What will happen to all of the down-votin trolls? Ya’ll take care!
I love Zite
Such a sad MDN Take – sounds like you guys are genuinely worried… I hope it works out!!! 🙁
I’m here more for the comments, not the “news.” 🙂
Tru Dat💥😜
Yep. This is the one area of my life where I’m apparently into S&M: I come here to be angered by right-wing wackos!
Ha! Love you guys! Well, not all of you… 🙂
Sounds like their willing to fall on their swords…
They’re. Why not fall on your dictionary?…
You’re right. So what?
Better yet, complain to MDN on why we can’t edit.
Sometimes I think English teachers shouldn’t have computer! /s
Sorry…”computers”.
No way as nice as Flipboard or others. I won’t be giving up Flipboard anytime soon…unless it goes under.
I’ve enjoyed Flipboard. The produced a nice app. News looks to be better. We all stand on the shoulders of those that came before us, or as I like to say, “We are only saprovores leaching off the entrails of our predecessors.”
Gives a whole new meaning to “shit eatin’ grin”! 🙂
But will it have the daily Nipple Slip News like Huffington Post?
Sure enough, Huffington Post appears in your choices along with The Telegraph and The Daily Mail. Before iOS 9’s News app, I’d been relying on Yahoo news for salacious content. Good to know Apple’s not playing Nanny. Inquiring minds want to know.
My iPad Air 2 updated to IOS 9 Beta now has the News app. I like it.
Is it stable? Does most everything still work ok? Many crashes? I’ve got one of them there iPad Air 2 contraptions. You think we should give iOS Beta 9 a whirl?😱
IOS 9 has been remarkably stable. 3rd party apps still need to be optimized for IOS 9, which won’t happen until around its final release date.
Not until they add drudge.
Crashes constantly in beta. Not even usable yet
As soon as it learns how to learn that I don’t give a crap about “reality TV” and pop stuff I think it might be nice… >
You’ll likely be able to pull up articles from Scientific American or I Fucking Love Science.
Apple News will only feed politically-correct news, glorifying the gay lifestyle of its fearless leader.
If you’re liberal and stupid, you’ll be quite happy with it.
Yet another app to take the place of a web browser. I just don’t get it.
Please- a Kardashian-free zone…
The DrudgeReport already has everything I want in one place. And it is almost perfect. Apple will not come close.
That site is Hot Mess. I like it too, but it’s rough around the edges.
Again another step taken by Apple which is totally unnecessary, they could have continued to make the best mobile platform better so that third party apps can make use of the platform. This is just waste of resources from apple however insignificant.
Tried it briefly using iOS9 beta 3, but as I’m in the UK I had to change my region to US as it isn’t set up for UK use yet. Seemed pretty good, but pulled in a lot of Daily Mail articles. As long as there’s some way to stem that tide of relentless, hateful bullshit I’m all for it.
I will of course check out Apple’s News app, but I still prefer to curate my own news feeds. I host my own RSS feed through Fever using a list of RSS feeds chosen by me.
No News App in iOS9 beta in Canada. What’s up with that?
News may work out to be okay. As expected your first choices for news are NYT, Time and NPR, CNN, MSNBC and I can’t tell if I can get rid of them. But I have added Drudge, Breitbart and RPC, as well as unchecked some I don’t want to see. It remains to be seen how customizable it will get. It is fast and clear, but one first glance presents me with a mishmash of news, tech, entertainment and other stuff to wade thru. I would prefer also to access news by source so I can filter the slant for a group of headlines. I would prefer a list of headlines only, but most may like the pictures. Too soon to call. If it is truly customizable I will use it, along with my other normal aggregators.
It will be interesting to see how politically conservative news is treated. Like the typical drudgereport reader, such as myself.
Relax, it’s almost sure to have a comics section.