If you’ve used Apple Music, then opening up News will feel familiar. Related: Can Apple Pay really replace your wallet? The basis of a good app is here, but the design is achingly simple and it’s far too bare bones to pique the interest of anyone who’s used Flipboard, Feedly or the tonne of other similar news reading apps out there. My first impressions? Apple has done a decent job here but it’s nothing groundbreaking. iPhone and iPad users in the UK and Australia will get access next, but I managed to find a workaround to get access to it in the UK right now – I’ve got an Apple account that was first registered in the US. It’s going to be baked into iOS 9 later and it’s available both for developers and the public right now via the iOS 9 public beta.Īpple’s attempt to combine the immediacy of web-based content with the aesthetics that come with magazine publishing is currently limited to access in the US. For the past week I ditched them all in favour of Apple’s brand new News app. Normally, my daily routine starts with a scroll through Twitter, a scan of Flipboard and then I’ll try and work my way through Feedly on the way to work. Right now, we’re pretty much spoilt for choice on how that can be done. TrustedReviews’ Max Parker has been living with Apple News on an iPad Air 2 and here’s what he makes of the Flipboard rival so far.Īs a technology journalist it’s a pretty big deal to be able to keep up-to-date with breaking stories. When Apple officially announced iOS 9 in June this year, it also revealed an all-new News app as a replacement for the ailing Newsstand.
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