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Apple News+ subscription growth blows away major media sites (www.cultofmac.com)

submitted 5 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 23 points 5 months ago (3 children)

What's wrong with that? You either buy a product or are a product.

[–] countablenewt@allthingstech.social 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@misk @yesman also you get three options: pay for news, get predatory ads and unreadable websites, or state funded media

Scummy fourth option is Adblock

[–] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

The side effect of the fourth option is your news outlet dies because it can't get any money

[–] balder1993@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

What I’ve noticed that happened in Brazil is that most major news channels have 2 websites: a subscription one with quality articles and a free one with very summarized AI lazily written news with no details or context.

There’s really not much to it, quality content needs money and ads don’t pay off for all of it (besides the fact nowadays people just blocks them).

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

npr and associated press are free and not for profit.

[–] arquebus_x@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

NPR is not free; it's paid for by taxes, which means that every U.S. citizen is in fact paying for news whether they like it or not. And "not for profit" is not the same as "no cost to the consumer." In addition, most of the outlets for NPR are local public radio stations that are - you guessed it - funded by taxes (as well as fund drives).

[–] explore_broaden@midwest.social 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

NPR/public radio stations get less than 10% of their funding from the federal government.

[–] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 months ago

NPR gets most of its money from corporate sponsorships, which means advertisements, which falls back to being the product

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

obviously nothing is literally “free”, that’s a trivial point to make. operational funds have to come for somewhere. The point was there's no additional cost to the reader (that they aren't already paying for) to get news from those sources and they don't depend on ad revenue or data monetization to make a profit.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Fair point, I don't envy much about America but NPR is a gem. There's much more included in News+ though.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago

Pretty sure AP is funded by newspapers