Apple's $9.99-a-month news service is great if you like magazines and use Apple devices, but leaves a lot of people out
Apple News+, the company's new $9.99/month all-you-can-eat magazine subscription service which includes content from the The Wall Street Journal and LA Times, is really good.
Now, when I'm sitting on the couch relaxing, I have a virtual coffee table of magazines I can browse through whenever I want. There are a lot of good magazines to pick from, too, including The Atlantic, National Geographic, Wired, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. There are magazines for all sorts of hobbies, like Hot Rod, PC Gamers, Car and Driver, and Boating, too. And you get all of these as part of the $9.
I also like that I can save magazines to read when my iPad or iPhone doesn't have a connection, like on a train or an airplane. My iPad doesn't have cellular, for example, so this content wouldn't otherwise be available unless I had Wi-Fi. Also, because you're required to read in the app, this sometimes gets in the way of how people actually consume news.
I dig the service because I get access to The New Yorker and Vanity Fair as part of the $9.99 subscription, which saves me the money I was paying for those services separately. Plus, I get content from the WSJ and LA Times, to which I didn't subscribe, and access to around 300 magazines. I like that I can dig into a bunch of those magazines when I'm looking to unwind at the end of the day, or that I can save some to read before I get on the train or a flight.
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