MM 2003 - Courtney Roberson

 Courtney Roberson

Reporting/Writing for the Mass Media

Dr. Reppert 

11/18/2021

News App Critique

    

    I'm sure I'm not the only one that dreads watching the news having to see all he sad stories, pictures and videos. Lucky for us, the world is more evolved and tech savvy that we can have news apps so we can look at the news stories that we wont to without being saddened. The app I am talking about today is Apple News. It is only on Apple products. 

        Personally, I don't use the app much but I know many people who do. It serves the same purpose as a news channel does and has the same trustworthy information. Apple news was released on September 16th, 2015 for all the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The app is as resourceful as a newspaper, news article, or news story on TV. 

 

The Apple News app gathers news stories from the web via various syndication feed or from news publishing partners via the JSON descriptive Apple News Format. 

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Any news publisher can submit their content to Apple News, and users can subscribe to any feed using the Safari web browser. 

Stories added through Safari will be displayed in the app in-app web browser. This app has categories for the specific places you want to in that moment. It is convenient for user. 

    Another app called Apple News+ was released on March 25, 2019. It now allows 300+ magazine subscriptions. It gave more options for the readers and better options as well. On July 15th 2020, Apple announced that there would be audio news stories added. The app continues to upgrade and become more useful for people.