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Post by narrator »

jameshart wrote: post #22
narrator wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 unblock…

Apple has done a pretty good job of building and supporting a long tail of apps. They're working on it with music. Why can't they take that model to content?

Prediction: Apple Blogs. It's like the app store, but for blogs. You need a mac to create content for it. Free and premium blogs, In blog purchase, etc.

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Post by meeper16 »

jameshart wrote: post #22
narrator wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 unblock…

Apple has done a pretty good job of building and supporting a long tail of apps. They're working on it with music. Why can't they take that model to content?

This is because Apple knows very little about algorithmic internet-wide Search or much of anything on the algorithmic level when compared to Google. Think about the maps debacle, its horrible email search, its purchase of Chomp to help it figure out app search.

Apple builds the nice looking robots, Google builds the brains.

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Post by aclissold »

bandicity wrote: post #40
burntwater wrote: post #17

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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.

Quora requires registration to simply read it. That's at least going to lose them viewers who don't want to bother.

Or multiple incognito/private windows :P

Re: “This story is being previewed exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday”

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Post by Reedx »

alayne wrote: post #16

I'm an Apple user, but I have no interest in Apple curated news via a dedicated app. I can't believe there's a significant market there.

But it's a default auto-installed app (on iOS9) and the headlines are on the search / Siri Suggestions screen. I'd be surprised if it doesn't already have a huge market...

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Post by fixxer »

softbuilder wrote: post #39
fixxer wrote: post #32

Well, looks like somebody found a "cure" for adblock ;) I miss the Wired of ten years ago. Now whenever I pick one up I am immensely disappointed by the hype and marketing. I remember it being more rigorous with respect to both journalism and technical acumen. Edit: or not, per other post regarding adblock coming soon to apple.

>I miss the Wired of ten years ago. This is what I said ten years ago! In truth Wired has always been a lot of hand-wavy hype wrapped around bits of legit interest. I think you just outgrow it eventually.

I debated saying 20 years ago, but I didn't want to show my age.

Re: “This story is being previewed exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday”

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Post by p00b »

andreyf wrote: post #27
kuschku wrote: post #19

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

For emphasis there is italics , which you can make by adding asterisks around the word.

Which was explained in the cited link.
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