Amaya Toman Apple recently he announced the date of this year's March Keynote. He has already sent out invitations to journalists and media representatives to the Steve Jobs Theater, where the conference will take place on March 25 at 18.00:12.2 p.m. our time. The program will include the introduction of a new premium subscription service for Apple News. The basis for launching the service was provided by the latest beta versions of Apple's operating systems – iOS 10.14.4 and macOS XNUMX.
Developer Steve Troughton-Smith on his Twitter reported that iOS 12.2 and macOS 10.14.4 contain multiple links pointing to a new virtual print subscription service through Apple News. For example, a list of magazine genres that the new service will offer has appeared:
- Automotive
- Business and finance
- Hobbies and crafts
- Fun
- Fashion and style
- Food and cooking
- Health and fitness
- Home and garden
- Children and parenting
- Men's lifestyle
- News and politics
- Science and technology
- Sports and Recreation
- Travel
- Women's lifestyle
The new betas of the operating systems also showed that the magazines will be distributed in PDF format, the service will also offer the option of downloading for offline reading. Support for push notifications has also appeared in the systems, through which users will be notified of new releases of their favorite titles. Notifications will apparently work on both iOS and macOS.
Apple owes the technology to integrate Apple News with magazines to its acquisition of Texture, dubbed the "Netflix for magazines." This happened last year as part of an effort to improve Apple News. Texture is a service that works on a magazine subscription basis of $10 a month. According to available reports, Apple will not significantly change the original price. The company will reportedly share half of the revenue with the publishers.
Along with the magazine subscription for Apple News, Apple will most likely reveal its own at the March Keynote service for streaming movies and series.
Source: 9to5Mac
