76 Macworld • April 2020FEATURE
Without exception, Apple Music, Apple TV+
and Apple Arcade are all now firmly part of The
Conversation. But Apple News+? Hardly. Indeed,
the most damning thing about it is that no one
seems interested in talking about it at all – not
even in the form of random Apple-bashing in the
Android subreddit. When we do hear about Apple
News+, it’s usually in the form of tepid statements
like that from Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch in
November (via Variety), when he said the “jury is
still out” on the service. CNBC also dropped a
report last week saying that Apple has struggled
to gain more than 200,000 subscribers in the
months since launch. For many, I imagine the mainNone of Apple TV+’s
launch shows, including
See, could be called duds