Apple Is Giving Away Three Months of Free Apple News+

Remember Apple News+? Apple’s $9.99 a month news subscription service that gives users access to magazines and news? Well, it’s now a little more affordable — kind of.

Apple is giving away three months of Apple News+ in some countries for Black Friday. The company announced on Friday that customers in the United States and Canada can now get a 3 month free trial of Apple News+, reports MacRumors.

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The offer is only available this weekend, so if you have any interest in Apple News+ and the magazines it offers, you may want to get the free trial. But don’t forget to actually unsubscribe before the trial period ends because Apple News+ will automatically renew at $9.99 per month.

And yes, that’s frankly a little too expensive for a news subscription service. Considering Apple TV+ comes at only $4.99 a month and the fact that it’s free for Apple Music Students users, the $9.99 a month pricing for Apple News+ simply doesn’t make any sense.

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  • mattbg

    Premium Member
    01 December, 2019 - 10:36 am

    <p>"Little too expensive for a news subscription service" by whose measure?</p><p><br></p><p>The fee is primarily for the magazine subscriptions. The additional news content (WSJ, Times of London, and perhaps some others) you get as part of News+ is more expensive outside of News+.</p><p><br></p><p>There's a clear value proposition here for people that want to pay for quality, distraction-free content but can't afford to pay 6x the amount to subscribe to a number of publications separately.</p><p><br></p><p>To me, the main shortcoming of this service is that it's inaccessible to Windows users, which is a problem if you are in the iOS ecosystem away from the desktop. Also, their algorithms need some work. They should take a leaf from Thurrott.com and separate the interests of people who pay vs people who don't :)</p><p><br></p><p>But seriously – the ability to be able to focus on well-presented, distraction-free content is a huge selling point of this service to me. That alone is worth something.</p>

  • Dryloch

    02 December, 2019 - 8:57 am

    <p>Apple bought the Texture magazine service. I had a paid up subscription for a year. I asked them to transfer me to Apple but they would not and only offered a refund. I will not pay 9.99 a month for magazines. </p>

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