News, News+, News Partners?
This announcement is confusing partly because Apple has named many different services almost identically.
Lets take a quick look at its news services to better understand it all.
Apple
First, theres Apple News, the app that lets you read all kinds of sources.
This app is free, and any publisher can publish stories to it, after an approval process.
Apple pays a cut of that $9.99 to the publishers.
Then, there are individual apps from news publishers, like the NYT app and so on.
Apple currently takes a 30% cut of in-app subscriptions from these apps.
This is what the latest announcement is about.
Whats In It For Apple?
Apple gets two things out of this offer.
“Apple News is not an ideal product for most publishers due to a lack of control.
