74 Macworld • April 2020

FEATURE

Apple News+ stumbled

because it’s the service

most outside Apple’s control

Apple’s subscription-based news service is its only real

stumble in its services push. Leif Johnson reports

A

pple’s big push into services this year

was doomed for disaster – at least if you

considered Apple News+ representative

of what was to come back in March 2019.

Many of the problems I hated back then remain

central to the experience: the mishmash of PDFs