Has there been any confirmation that this isn’t just a bug? It wasn’t clear from the post.
That was my reaction too. I'd expect that if it was intentional, they would have gotten rid of the URL handler.
Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
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Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have it uninstalled, but every time somebody sends me a link they read in Apple News, my phone prompts me to install the app and won’t show me the article unless I do.
That would be because they sent you a deep link into the app, not a regular link to a webpage. The same thing would happen if someone sent you e.g. a link to an item on the iTunes Store, or to a Spotify playlist.
Sending the deep link is the default behavior when you hit the convenient "Share" button. The only way to share the regular web page link is incredibly cumbersome:
(1) Copy the Apple News deep link to your clipboard
(2) Paste it into a browser that will actually show you the final destination of the app link. This step is impossible to do in Safari on iOS (it will force you to use Apple News, and if that's not installed, it will force you to go to the App Store). So you end up pasting the link into say, iOS Chrome. This still prompts you to go to the App Store for Apple News, but it allows you to cancel this and just load the web page.
(3) After the link has loaded in your alternate iOS web browser, now you can copy the real article link and share it.
The above is way, way, way too cumbersome for the vast majority of iOS users to ever want to do, let alone think about. So, in a practical sense, sharing true article links surfaced via apple news is cumbersome enough to be virtually impossible for most users.
Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
#113I'm not surprised to hear this considering what an out-of-gate unquestionable home run Apple News has been.I mean, it's been such monster success that Apple knows even its dumpster fire of a UX and god awful search functionality aren't enough to keep away the literal dozens of users it has. With no where else to turn for news the Apple faithful will just have to accept that Apple's decision to not support RSS really…
85 million monthly active users according to Apple.
Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
#114More people spend time worrying about the decline of RSS than the amount of people actually using RSS.
I don't know. I use Podcasts every day.
Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
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Maybe I’m old school, but I don’t want push notifications from my web browser.
I wish they completely disabled service workers. I don’t want some dumb news site running code in the background because I visited the site once.
Just when you're not visiting the site, right?
Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
> There is literally nothing which makes iMessage unique in this regard. Sure there is. If you try to "text" someone (as in SMS) and the Messages app (which is the ONLY way you can send SMS on iOS) detects your number as registered to iMessage, it will send an iMessage by default. So even though your number didn't change, and everyone is still using the "Messages" app to talk to you, it inexplicably doesn't work anym…
> which is the ONLY way you can send SMS on iOS There are plenty of SMS-API-provider-backed "texting apps" on iOS. There are also softphone apps that provide SMS service. I think you specifically mean "the only way you can send SMS messages from the DID number that your carrier maps to your phone's MMC IMEI registration .
This is unnecessarily pedantic. It's rather obvious in context that "sending an SMS" means sending an SMS from your phone (you know, the thing SMS was invented for) rather than using a third-party web service to send an SMS on your behalf.
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I love newsbeuter, it's how I get all latest news about the death of RSS :)
Feels like there has been a bit of a resurgence lately, not that I have any hard data to back that up. The major players ie google and now apple have dumped it, but most blogs and news sites still have rss feeds.
When I follow a site via RSS, I go out of my way to reach out to the owner and let them know I am enjoying their content via RSS.
If I site I want to follow doesn't have RSS, I reach out and let the owner know I can't follow their site via RSS. A few people implemented RSS on their blogs because of it :)
Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
#118The title doesn’t accurately reflect what’s going on here. Apple News hasn’t supported users adding their own feeds for a number of years.
This article is about how publishers get their feeds into Apple News. Apple now requires publishers to provide a custom feed format rather than an RSS feed.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yea, I love the fact that my macOS update is only to update Apple News which is unavailable in my region.
Steve Jobs used to use the terms "brain dead" and "bozos" for software devs who did this. Perhaps it's time to bring these terms back just for Apple
Steve Jobs was great at many things, and I definitely preferred Apple when he was at the helm. But I do not think we should seek to emulate this aspect of his management style.
What does calling names accomplish? If the software sucks, criticize the software. Life is hard enough when other people aren't degrading you.