42 MACWORLD APRIL 2020
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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. Many
of the problems I hated back then (go.
macworld.com/4thn) remain central to the
experience: the mishmash of PDFs with
digital content, the hassle of searching for
publications, and the lack of real reasons
to give up many direct subscriptions to
notable magazines. Seven months on, theApple News+ stumbled
because it’s the service most
outside Apple’s control
Apple’s subscription-based news service is the company’s only real stumble in its
services push—and that’s not entirely Apple’s fault.
BY MICHAEL SIMON