Neil Hughes
Apple is apparently planning to do away with its Newsstand application for iOS, instead replacing it with a Flipboard-like digital magazine that will present content from a number of sources.
Citing unnamed sources, Re/code reported on Monday that partners for Apple's new application will include ESPN, The New York Times, Conde Nast, and Hearst. The new application will apparently replace Newsstand, a catch-all app that includes magazines, newspapers, and other subscription-based content.
According to Peter Kafka, publishers who use Apple's new app will keep 100 percent of the advertising they sell. The iPad maker will still take a 30 percent cut of revenue from subscriptions sold through publisher's own apps.
News of Apple's plans broke just before the company plans to unveil its next-generation platforms, including iOS 9 and OS X 10.11, at Monday's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote. Presumably, Apple's Newsstand replacement will be an integral part of the iOS 9 operating system update.
Apple's Newsstand debuted in 2011 with the launch of iOS 5. It was initially exclusive to the iPad, but eventually came to the iPhone as well.
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30 Comments
So what about magazines we currently get through Newsstand, not on the partner list? I guess they just have to develop a standalone app now?
I'm not familiar with Flipboard, but I hope I can still look at a single source in published order when I want to.
NO!!!
Get gubmint out of my National Geographic and Wired Magazine!!!
The digital magazines are ridiculously unintuitive. I subscribed to one of the magazines and I learned through flipping that I was missing out a lot that I didn't nkotice. For example, I didn't know that tapping a red circle would display a caption. I didn't know that I Can scroll the page.. but yet at the samet ime, some pages are scrollable and some pages are screen by screen. Makes no sense at all.
Wonderful. Another useless app to add to the 15 I already have. I really wish Apple would make it so that you could just delete some of the bloat on iOS rather than shoving it in another folder.