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Can anyone comment on whether Apple News: https://www.apple.com/apple-news/

Is a good option as a single-subscription aggregator of multiple magazines and newspapers?



Generally they have a lot of media at a low cost.

But if you want to support the production of this media, Apple currently take 50% of your monthly subscription as the cost of providing the service. That's even more than the app tax!


Apple are extracting 100%, or equivalent, revenue to the news providers .. but pay a fraction of the costs incurred to create it, probably 1% of revenue or less for the digital distribution.

If the costs of the news creators to create and administer those news networks was 50% of the revenue, then Apple is taking all of the profit.

Apple is simply a vampire, a troll shaking down the weak




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