Kevin C. Wong

Apple News+ [/]

I tried a three-month trial of Apple News+ and I won't be renewing because it's not for me. There are two categories of new material:

A selection of newspapers, many of which are only on + not the regular Apple News. This is more like a web-site view though. I kind of like my newspapers as issues. The selection is not that varied though for me The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Sacramento Bee are ones I might read.

A bigger selection of newsstand magazines with back issues going to Mar/Apr 2018. These seem to be the full magazines including ad pages. You can kind of swipe left and right to go to the next article though didn't seem to work all the time. It's kind of like a scrollable web view where most article are shown big and you have to swipe down. I'd rather read a PDF on my 10" iPad because one page looks fine in that screen size.

For $10 a month if you can read a newspaper and a couple of magazines I guess that's about the same price. For me though I don't really read newspapers and the magazine selection was not for me. There are three Mac magazines: MacFormat, MacLife, MacWorld and they're nice but I don't keep up with Mac stuff as much these days. There is Sports Illustrated and some other sports magazines though for secondary sports. Lots of adult hobby magazines: kitchen and gardening and so on. Life style magazines, celebrity-type magazines,...

Comes down to it there's nothing there I really want to read so I'll pass on Apple News+.