78 Macworld • April 2020FEATURE
sites and to make them believe that Apple News+
benefits them, particularly when those sites tend
to have vastly different means of generating their
own revenue. Apple also has no control over the
frequency or quality of the content. This doesn’t
matter much with the free version of Apple News,
but it’s a clear problem with the premium content
of Apple News+. Maybe these issues wouldn’t be
so obnoxious if Apple at least seemed interested
in making an effort to fix them (as it is with the
notoriously buggy iOS 13), but there’s little proof
that it is. Maybe, with so many aspects of Apple
News+ being out of the company’s control, it just
doesn’t know how.
Compare all this to how we see Apple flexing its
muscles with the paid services it has more direct
control over. In November, Apple pulled its planned
theatrical screenings of the Apple TV+ SamuelIt’s always nice to be in
good company, though