Google Play Newsstand launches on Android, coming to Apple's iOS in 2014
Android on Wednesday received its counterpart to Apple's own iOS Newsstand in the form of Google Play Newsstand, a news and magazine subscription hub that will also arrive on iPhone and iPad in 2014.
Like Apple's Newwstand for iOS, Google Play Newsstand allows users to subscribe to magazines and other publications that are all presented in one convenient place. But Google's offering goes one step further with the inclusion of its Currents service, offering a Flipboard-like presentation of the latest news from various Web sources.
Newspapers are also included in Google Play Newsstand, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. Paid subscriptions are available, and many titles come with free 30-day trials.
In all, Google says the Play Newsstand has about 1,900 free and paid publications, which also include titles like The New Yorker, Wired, and Vanity Fair.
Google already has a dedicated Currents app for Apple's iOS platform, but a full-fledged Play Newsstand will be arriving on iOS in early 2014, the company has pledged. There, it will compete with Apple's own built-in Newsstand, which offers free and paid magazines and newspapers.
Like Apple's Newwstand for iOS, Google Play Newsstand allows users to subscribe to magazines and other publications that are all presented in one convenient place. But Google's offering goes one step further with the inclusion of its Currents service, offering a Flipboard-like presentation of the latest news from various Web sources.
Newspapers are also included in Google Play Newsstand, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. Paid subscriptions are available, and many titles come with free 30-day trials.
In all, Google says the Play Newsstand has about 1,900 free and paid publications, which also include titles like The New Yorker, Wired, and Vanity Fair.
Google already has a dedicated Currents app for Apple's iOS platform, but a full-fledged Play Newsstand will be arriving on iOS in early 2014, the company has pledged. There, it will compete with Apple's own built-in Newsstand, which offers free and paid magazines and newspapers.
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Can't wait until Newsstand launches on the Appstore (yes, I'm sarcastically referring to Amazon).
geek engineers have no imagination...
So, wait, why can’t they be sued for this? App Store and Appstore are “different” (burn the judge), but Newsstand and Newsstand aren’t.
But they cannot compete as it is price + that 30% fee.
A win win for Apple.
Not everybody uses everything Apple. Some people use both. Same with Kindle books.
They would have to sue every Pakistani Newsstand in NYC then based upon your logic.
There are multiple Pakistani newsstands in New York City that are entirely digital and have no ties to the physical world of media?
I suppose next you’ll say Microsoft can sue (or be sued by) New York City for having millions of windows.
Those points aren't exactly analogous.
Exactly. I don’t know why he brought up physical newspaper stands in the first place.
So Google renames their "magazines" app to "Newsstand", and their "Gallery" app to "photos". I sense a trend here.
Seriously, have some fucking originality. No need to ape Apple even in the naming department, all the time. It's always the same story- Apple does all the heavy lifting, and takes all the risks in making something mainstream/the standard, and others lazily just ape it after the concept has proven successful.
Literally tons of prior art, and one buys the same things, just in digital form.
So Google renames their "magazines" app to "Newsstand", and their "Gallery" app to "photos". I sense a trend here.
Seriously, have some fucking originality. No need to ape Apple even in the naming department, all the time. It's always the same story- Apple does all the heavy lifting, and takes all the risks in making something mainstream/the standard, and others lazily just ape it after the concept has proven successful.
Do you consider the names "Newsstand" and "Photos" novel to begin with?
That's idiotic. A newsstand has historically been a place to buy periodicals, so obviously in the digital age it's not unique nor really creative to call a app to purchase digital periodicals a 'newsstand', but google is a number and it's use for a search engine is unique.
Those idiots don't have a clue to come up with some proper product name! WTF really!
Jelly bean, kitfuc.kingkat .... LOL
Literally tons of prior art, and one buys the same things, just in digital form.
And newsstand.co.uk has been providing newsstand services in electronic form since 1995
Interesting that Google must have copied Apple and should be sued for it, but Apple did not copy newsstand.
The more I build up the news wall, the more that content can be recommended or tailored in future. This is something that Yahoo should get in on with their Feedly tech. They can have videos like the WSJ can add interviews. They can have ads (iAds) instead of payment.
Right now, Newsstand just does the usual boring subscribe to each publication and you have to go into each magazine and filter through the whole publication to find something interesting.
I believe that's what Google's NewsStand offers but not entirely certain. I think that's what the AI article is saying anyway.