(Among the new magazines I could find in Plus: Cricket, Edge, FourFourTwo, All About History, Alta, Babybug, and BBC Gardeners’ World.) Apple says News Plus has 300-plus (or is that 300+?) magazines, but the chances are good that the ones you’ve heard of were already on Texture, which currently lists 204 magazines. Apple News Plus is, like Texture, fundamentally about giving you access to issues of magazines. ![]() The more we learn about it, the more it looks like a thin revision of Texture. I think we need to get more comfortable with the fact that the paid Apple News reveal next week is going to be super disappointing. But Texture’s origin story also limits what this important new product can accomplish. Texture isn’t bad! I’m a happy paying user, and it does some things well. And “based on” is probably an understatement it’s pretty much Texture squeezed into the Apple News interface. Apple News Plus is based on Texture, the Hulu-for-magazines app that Apple bought last year. I’m disappointed, I have to say, though that may just be a case of my hopes being too high. ![]() Make it Apple News Plus.) You can watch the keynote here the Apple News part starts about 6:30 in. ![]() It’s called…Apple News Plus? Apple News+? News+ seems to be the official branding (a shift that began in iOS 12.2 beta 4), but the character doesn’t show up on most non-Apple devices, so let’s go with Apple News+. Apple announced its much-anticipated premium news service today.
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