4 ms·
There's been a bunch of similar initiatives, albeit more typically aggregating via a single app (Inkl, Pressreader etc). I've tried some in the past because I'd
by crispinb 7y ago
There's been a bunch of similar initiatives, albeit more typically aggregating via a single app (Inkl, Pressreader etc). I've tried some in the past because I'd like to pay for news, but consider site subscriptions as deeply hostile to the www per se. But they all end up with the same problem - great early hope of accumulating more sources over time, which then doesn't happen.
Standardised micropayments are the obvious answer, but it seems to be a ship that's sailed.
- reaperducer 7y agoIf you're in the Apple ecosystem, Apple News Plus isn't too bad. If you read a lot, it's pennies or less per article. Apple's added a good number of publications since it launched, and I get more value out of it than I used to. But it's still trying to find its sea legs.
- crispinb 7y agoI've had no Apple devices for a couple of years, but in Australia at least its newspaper coverage is pretty much limited to News Corp. That'd be a nonstarter for me. Though that's based on what I read during the Aus launch. It may have expanded since.
- freeAgent 7y agoI wish Apple would make Apple News available outside their own ecosystem. I would probably subscribe to it if they did.