That list of Apple's partner publications does reflect a bias though. For example the news/politics section contains more lean-left and left biased sources from

That list of Apple's partner publications does reflect a bias though. For example the news/politics section contains more lean-left and left biased sources from All Sides (https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings) than it does lean-right and right-biased sources. I am guessing a number of right-biased sources either aren't welcome on Apple's platform or don't feel comfortable partnering with them. Given that Apple's own content policies implement a progressive bias (for example on trans issues), and since they have a long history of censorship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Apple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Apple), I am not sure how people can trust such a service to fairly represent all views or provide a diversity of viewpoints. And this is the exact problem with this sort of bundle - it centralizes something that is better handled in a decentralized way, and the platform owner then gains power that they can abuse. The GP comment mentioned Spotify, and they suffer from the same issue. They entered the podcast market, acquired Joe Rogan's show as an exclusive, and then immediately proceeded to censor vast swaths of content based on their employees' ideological biases (https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2021/04/06/joe-rogan-spotify-removing-shows/ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2021/04/06/joe-rogan-spotif...).