Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

mjtsai.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

251–260 of 271 posts

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

#251

Post by Eric_WVGG »

briandear wrote: post #93
sbarre wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple Maps is still pretty far behind Google Maps. I don't have high hopes for News, given how much it keeps pushing features that are either user-unfriendly (giant ads in the middle of articles) or designed solely to push you to News+ I used to be a regular (many times a day) user and their changes have led me to stop using it entirely.

> Apple Maps is still pretty far behind Google Maps. Depends where you are, the Apple version of street view is far superior to Google’s.

No bicycle navigation; a “walking route” will send you the wrong way up one-way streets, “auto route” onto unsafe highways.

I wouldn’t care except their API for directions to AirPods or Apple Watch isn’t public. This is grounds for an antitrust suit imho...

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

#252

Post by saagarjha »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #210
simonw wrote: post #7

The weirdest thing about this is that Apple News still hijacks links to Atom/RSS feeds - so if you click on one of those links in Mobile Safari you'll be bounced to the News app, which will then display an error. Here's a video I recorded of this behaviour: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1210622908143415297 I think I'd rather they displayed a dump of ugly XML in the browser, just so I could copy and paste the URL…

Y'know, that makes me wonder... what if the "removal" of RSS support is just a bug?

It is not.

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

#253

Post by mikewhy »

joering2 wrote: post #33
superfist wrote: post #31

Not entirely related, but I want to mention that we have almost 2020 and Safari still doesn't support service workers push notifications (Push API). Shame on you Apple.

This is how apple.com looks like on Safari (c) by Apple: https://ibb.co/ct6LTB0

That's Safari for Windows. Safari for Windows was discontinued in 2012, almost 8 years ago.

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

#254

Post by enos_feedler »

asiachick wrote: post #202
saagarjha wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not even sure their engineers understand how annoying it is. They've implemented links in such a horrible way, and it's gotten worse with time (for example, there is a feature where if you open a link and have the right associated app installed, it will open the link in the app. There used to be a way to force the link to open in Safari in case you didn't want to open the app; it'd show up in the top right. The f…

this sounds like a privacy issue and should be filed as a bug. if I can't open a link in a private tab in Safari (or ideally the browser of my choice) then I can not protect my privacy. The launched app will get to record my activity or via the non private browser tab the site will track me. file a bug / feedback that this is not in line with Apple's privacy first stance

It is more private for Apple to handle the universal link and deep link you into the installed app since arguably the navigation can happen on device. The moment you bring a browser into the picture you are dealing with network based navigation (unless service workers are used which is a pretty small chance these days)

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

#255

Post by Spooky23 »

sbarre wrote: post #88
codyb wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It hasn’t been around too long. In a few years it’ll probably be pretty competent at what it does. I don’t use it but that was certainly the trend with Apple Maps which was pretty crummy when it first came out.

Apple Maps is still pretty far behind Google Maps. I don't have high hopes for News, given how much it keeps pushing features that are either user-unfriendly (giant ads in the middle of articles) or designed solely to push you to News+ I used to be a regular (many times a day) user and their changes have led me to stop using it entirely.

Try it again. Apple Maps is pretty good.

The love/hate thing is that it picks a more normal route vs optimized. I personally like it because I don’t find that a Google Maps optimizations help in urban settings.

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

#256

Post by Fnoord »

ulfw wrote: post #212
culturestate wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> ...WhatsApp isn't free. I have to spend hundreds of dollars upfront to buy a phone... WhatsApp works reliably on a staggeringly broad list of devices. You can get a supported phone for, like, $20 and stick a $5-per-month prepaid SIM in it (many of these plans in low-income countries specifically come with WhatsApp allowances) and be connected.

Yea that’s not free

Then, following your logic, no software is free as in beer because you always need a computer to run it, and computer hardware isn't free...

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

#257

Post by ljm »

anthk wrote: post #224
ljm wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love how, once you install Xcode, it becomes the default editor for a load of plain text formats. Yes Apple, I really do need to boot up a full blown, 7GB+ sized IDE to edit some markdown. Apparently TextEdit wasn't good enough.

Get plan9port for OSX, forget XCode, Vi, Emacs. Set it up accordingly, you won't go back. Acme under OSX shines.

Speaking to my heart. I had Acme set up but it needs a good mouse to make it work. I use a trackball mouse, it doesn't have the three finger chords.

Fucking love the concept, but it'd take a lot of work to get the immersiveness of modern systems. e.g. completion/suggestions, linting, etc. none of it is built for plan9.

Ironic because plan9 is amazingly trackball friendly.

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

#258

Post by kingludite »

I test RSS/Atom readers/aggregators with an OPML with at least 2000 entries in it. Most look pretty bad after that... they kinda all looked pretty b...baaad. (My own was never ready for normal use) My bias has it that Apple news doesn't sound good enough to try.

It would be so cool if someone wrote a really good FOSS RSS Aggregator - honestly. It would make my day every day. I would also like a really good news group reader, a really good IRC client, a better mail client and a really good text/code editor. (etc) Shards of awesome are spread out over 10 000 applications.

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

#259

Post by jachee »

zwily wrote: post #139
jachee wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iMessage isn't MMS. Android does group messages with the latter.

iMessage does MMS for group chat with non-iMessage clients.

Yes, but what the poster above describes as "locking you out of group messages" sounds like a member of an all-iMessage group switching to android, and the group message continuing on in iMessages-only, rather than being restarted as MMS to include the Android.
Post reply on HN