Apple to replace Newsstand with new Flipboard-like app for iOS 9
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.
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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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!!!
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.
I do not think you understand the definition of "replace".
Hmm...news stand is horrible right now. If you try and search for it in Spotlight it doesn't even show up. I hope Apple either gets rid of it or replaces it with something better.
I do not think you understand the definition of "replace".
There's a lot of things I don't understand
Flipboard is actually an amazing app. It's my go-to national news app along with plenty of apple news sources.
Flipboard is actually an amazing app. It's my go-to national news app along with plenty of apple news sources.
Flipboard was one of my first downloads when I got my iPad in November 2013. I use it every day at least once.
Newsstand never attracted many users, do unless Apple comes up with something magic, this new app is likely to bomb too. The problem doesn't just lie with how Apple shares revenue with publications. It lies with the value, if any, users attach to the application.
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.
sorry to hear that.....I've never had an issue - I just click or touch or scroll - only way to find out happens - if i wait for direction in life i loose the fun of exploring... - just with some zines would be e-sub only instead of including a hard copy at the same price...
Love the idea, but suspect that I'm going to hate the implementation, and for much the same reason I hate Flipboard and love Zite.
Cook mentioned that News would host excellent typography and a Times article would look like a Times article. Thing is, I don't WANT each and every article to look different, any more than I want to read a book or magazine where every chapter and page switches fonts, styles, and margins.
What I want in a news aggregator is CONSISTENCY. I want to choose the font, size, line spacing and margins that best suit my eyes and reading style.
If they want to "brand" their article put a friggin' logo in the corner, but don't keep messing with my font settings.
I'm not familiar with Flipboard, but I hope I can still look at a single source in published order when I want to.
Really, you've never used FlipBoard before, wow, because it's really good, like Pinterest, News 360 and Feedly, it's one of those apps you have got to have. I love reading magazines, though like NewsStand I will never use or even try this new app from Apple. Simply and the reason why I don't use most of Apples mobile apps is it's just not crossed platform. So I use Zinio, which is still the best magazine reader around and Issuu and if you guys haven't tried yet you missing out on a treat, Issuu is simply fantastic. It has a great interface, lot's of free magazines, international titles, basically magazines you can't find on other readers. Definitely worth trying out.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?
They are already standalone apps. Right now Newsstand is nothing but a special folder that apps that have selected to use must be located in. Originally, apps in the Newsstand folder profited from background downloads and notifications for new editions, now every app can do this, it doesn't need to be in Newsstand for it anymore.