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Post by narrator »

lfam wrote: post #8

Apple is implementing a content paywall at the device level.

Theory: Apple wants to defeat Google by eliminating ads and making the purchase of the device the amortized payment for content.

Analysis: The problem with this strategy is that Apple is going to have to scale to all the content in the world, in foreign languages, on obscure or controversial topics on a million blogs. Super niche content will fade, starved of app revenue and have to rely on native IOS ad with unblockable ads for distribution.

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Post by noob_learning »

torrance wrote: post #10

Apple News isn't available in a lot of countries for whatever reason. So this not only means its inaccessible to non-iOS9 devices, but it's also inaccessible to, eg., all of New Zealand.

I'm in NZ, you can change your region to US to get the new Apple News

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Post by stevesearer »

JohnTHaller wrote: post #2

Wired will be losing ad revenue due to Apple adding ad blocking abilities to mobile Safari. So, Wired moves content to Apple News which has ads that can't be blocked (and Apple conveniently takes a nice juicy cut of).

I'm pretty sure they only take a cut of ads sold through their iAd system and take 0% cut for ads sold directly by the publication.

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Post by andrewstuart2 »

JohnTHaller wrote: post #2

Wired will be losing ad revenue due to Apple adding ad blocking abilities to mobile Safari. So, Wired moves content to Apple News which has ads that can't be blocked (and Apple conveniently takes a nice juicy cut of).

They'd better be getting an extra cut for the exclusivity period, though. Otherwise that part would be pointless. They could just serve this page for only IOS9 devices based on user agent.

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Post by burntwater »

lerxst wrote: post #3

I imagine their bounce rate will be very high if they continue doing this. Other news sites have done similar things such as make you participate in a survey before reading the article. In order for me to open this article before September 22, I would have to copy that link, paste it into an email to myself, open Mail on my phone, and open the link from my own email.

Quora permanently lost me several years ago when they suddenly forced me to select five categories of interest before I could continue to the question I was interested in.

Forcing me to do something I have no interest in and will never make use of is a good way to alienate me.

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Post by derefr »

torrance wrote: post #10

Apple News isn't available in a lot of countries for whatever reason. So this not only means its inaccessible to non-iOS9 devices, but it's also inaccessible to, eg., all of New Zealand.

I'm guessing it's just a paucity of news agencies in the given country that have set up a feed in Apple News format; Apple doesn't want to flip the switch for a country until they have a good default selection of that country's local feeds to let people pick from.

I noticed that on the iOS9 beta, with my region set to Canada, the News app was unavailable, but on the springboard search view, the embedded news items were from (two) Canadian sources. So it seems like they're working on it.

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Post by kuschku »

dang wrote: post #7
nathancahill wrote: post #4

Mods, please DON'T change this title. The post would become completely non-sensical.

The title you're reading is what we changed it to. The submitted title was "This story is exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday". We changed it to an exact quote from the article and put it in quotation marks. p.s. Please don't use uppercase for emphasis: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .

How do we make text bold for emphasis? or should we just use UTF characters for that?

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Post by alayne »

kuschku wrote: post #19
dang wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The title you're reading is what we changed it to. The submitted title was "This story is exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday". We changed it to an exact quote from the article and put it in quotation marks. p.s. Please don't use uppercase for emphasis: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .

How do we make text bold for emphasis? or should we just use UTF characters for that?

Please just write normally formatted sentences.
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