The Wall Street Journal will be joining Appleās coming news subscription service, but The New York Times and Washington Post are out.
Thatās according to a new report in The New York Times that cites several sources who were not authorized to speak publicly about the plans.
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Appleās coming news subscription service isnāt getting as much press as Appleās coming video subscription service, but both are expected to be announced, if not launched, next Monday, on March 25. Itās been described as a āNetflix for news,ā because every subscription service must now be called the Netflix for something, and will be offered as a paid tier to Appleās News app, which is available now only in iOS and on the Mac.
Which raises an interesting point: Will Apple port its News app to Windows, the web, and Android, making it universally available? Or will it continue to offer it only to those in its insular ecosystem?
Controversially, Apple is offering news publishers a risky deal that greatly increases Appleās share of revenues: It is asking for 50 percent of all Apple News-based revenues, a big jump over the 30 percent that it demands from other in-app payments. The subscription is expected to cost consumers $10 per month, so $5 would go to Apple and $5 would be split between publishers, probably based on views.
Apple will also hide customer data from news publishers, as it does now with customer data from iOS and Mac Store apps: Those customers are Appleās customers, not the app makerās (or news publisherās) customers. That means that publishers wonāt be able to interact directly with those who read their publications, whereas they routinely do so when there is a direct relationship.
These two factors are probably the driving force behind The New York Times and Washington Post rejecting Appleās overtures. But that could change if the paid version of Apple News succeeds somehow.
m_p_w_84
<p>Appleās behaviour is increasingly outrageous. I think itās deplorable to do a deal with them. They deserve bringing down via state anti trust / monopoly litigation. </p>
dontbe evil
<blockquote><em><a href="#414441">In reply to lvthunder:</a></em></blockquote><p>easy:</p><ul><li>I offer a platform with a store, ok</li><li>to sell apps on my platform you have to use my store, ok</li><li>when you sell an app or inapp purchase or a subscription I take 30%, ok</li><li>on my store, there are audio streaming, video streaming and news subscription service, ok</li><li>I start to sell my own audio streming service, I take 100%, ok</li><li>MMM nice, I'm going to start also my own video streaming and news service, I still take 100%, ok</li><li>mmm if my competitors sell their service at 10, they earn 7 … I can sell the same at 8 or 9 and still earn 8 or 9… COOL !!!</li></ul><p><br></p>
dontbe evil
<p>hopefully more services will join forces with spotify, netflix and antitrust to fight apple</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#414440">In reply to lvthunder:</a></em></blockquote><p> I would imagine that Mike would agree with you given his history with Microsoft. in DOJ vs Microsoft prosecutors carefully crafted their definition of "market" to Microsoft's disadvantage. </p>
dontbe evil
<blockquote><em><a href="#414340">In reply to toukale:</a></em></blockquote><p>easy: </p><ul><li>I offer a platform with a store, ok</li><li>to sell apps on my platform you have to use my store, ok</li><li>when you sell an app or inapp purchase or a subscription I take 30%, ok</li><li>on my store, there are audio streaming, video streaming and news subscription service, ok</li><li>I start to sell my own audio streming service, I take 100%, ok</li><li>MMM nice, I'm going to start also my own video streaming and news service, I still take 100%, ok</li><li>mmm if my competitors sell their service at 10, they earn 7 … I can sell the same at 8 or 9 and still earn 8 or 9… COOL !!!</li></ul>
skane2600
<p>Paid online news services are a niche business and will remain so.</p>