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1659447091 2 hours ago

> What I _would _do is pay a flat fee to subscribe to several publications.

Apple News+ is ~$13

https://www.apple.com/apple-news/

The list of publications included

https://www.apple.com/apple-news/publications/

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landl0rd an hour ago | parent | next [-]

No bundling model is going to work with the papers worth reading, with high-value ones. Look at that list: no FT, only partial WSJ, no Bloomberg (only Businessweek), no Economist, no NYT, no Foreign Affairs, no SCMP. I guess Foreign Policy and Puck bundled could be cool but most "high-value" publications are excluded. This is like netflix where it's never worth subscribing because it's ten thousand things you don't care to watch.

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jasode an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>Apple News+ is ~$13 The list of publications included

Fyi... Apple News+ subscribers don't get the full subscription to all the participating publications. This means a subset of articles and/or partial articles (teasers) that require extra payment to get past a paywall to read the rest of the story. This surprises some people.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/why-dont-i-see-full-art...

	▲	jrmg 41 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There is confusion in that thread. People seem to be complaining that they can’t access Washington Post articles, but in 2024, when that thread was written, The Washington Post was not included in Apple News Plus. It joined in 2025 (https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/29/apple-news-just-added-the-was...). What you could do before that was register your Washington Post subscription, if you had one, with the Apple News app, then you’d be able to read full Washington Post articles - perhaps this was confusing the forum posters?
	▲	1659447091 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I see that happen in the free Apple News, but had not seen it with the Apple News+ subscription. They may be confusing the 2, similar to how people confuse Apple TV: separately a device, an app, and a subscription service

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ErikCorry an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

$13/month is less than many of those sites cost individually, but I get them all for that price?

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crazygringo an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Yup, this is both the solution and the problem.

Apple News+ has tried this. If anyone could pull it off, it's Apple.

But the problem is, it's not comprehensive enough. The two major newspapers/magazines I read aren't on there, because they've got enough market power to require their own subscriptions. Meanwhile, this is similarly missing the long tail of a lot of links I follow that are paywalled.

And then of course there are the massive usability issues. If I see a link on HN to e.g. Forbes, and click it, I just get the paywall. Apple News+ doesn't work in the browser. I understand that sometimes it's possible to use Share... in the browser to send an article to Apple News+, but that seems to require knowing it's one of the included 300+ publications? Which nobody's going to memorize...