Apple News+

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<div style="font: bold 2em/1.2 -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'SF Pro Display', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: var(--wiki-color);">Apple News+</div>
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! class="ios-lab" | Operator
| class="ios-val" | [[Apple]]
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! class="ios-lab" | Launched
| class="ios-val" | March 25, 2019 (from the Texture acquisition)
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! class="ios-lab" | Price
| class="ios-val" | $12.99/month · in [[Apple One]] Premier
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! class="ios-lab" | Catalog
| class="ios-val" | 400+ magazines and newspapers, incl. WSJ and major dailies
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Apple News+ is the paid tier of Apple News: hundreds of magazines and several major newspapers behind one subscription, built from the acquired "Netflix of magazines," Texture. It sells bundle economics to an industry that resisted them — full issues, formatted for the [[iPad]] and [[iPhone]], with Apple as the privacy-preserving middleman that never hands publishers the reader.

= Position =

News+ has grown by accretion rather than headlines: audio stories, daily crossword and games, sports scores, and food coverage folded in over the years, making it the quiet magazine rack of [[Apple One]] Premier. Its tension is structural — publishers want readers and data, Apple offers reach and anonymity — and its steadiest audience is the one that already lived in Apple News for free.

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