A look at the reasons why Artifact failed, including not growing its user base outside the US and user confusion about its ever-growing set of features
Last week, Artifact, a buzzy news app from Instagram's co-founders, announced it was shutting down after failing to gain critical mass … X: @darnell , @arielmichaeli , @smulpuru , and @carnage4life Se...
Fast Company took its website offline after a hacker used its Apple News account to send two obscene push notifications; Apple disabled the outlet's channel
It's been a little while since we had a high-profile media feed hijacking, but tonight someone sent an Apple News notification …
Apple's iCloud, App Store, Siri, Find My, Apple Maps, Music, Podcasts, and TV+ suffer outages; Apple's System Status page indicates the issues are now resolved
I'm told Apple's corporate and retail internal systems are down too, limiting remote work and retail operations like product pick-ups and repairs. Curtis Herbert / @parrots : Looks like this isn't an ...
The New York Times pulls its stories from Apple News, saying the service does not align with its strategy of building direct relationships with paying readers
one that can hopefully be converted to subscription,” and a platform like Apple News does not help enough with that goal to make it worth participating. https://www.niemanlab.org/... Nancy Scola / @na...
Research comparing curation by humans and algorithms on Apple News shows that human editors chose more diverse sources, more evenly, and less “soft news”
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Research comparing curation by humans and algorithms on Apple News shows that human editors chose more diverse sources, more evenly, and less “soft news”
Two Northwestern University researchers audited two Apple News sections: one curated by editors and one by an algorithm. Tweets: @inmaorg , @ndiakopoulos , and @inmaorg See also Mediagazer Tweets: Inm...
At an event with News Corp's Robert Thomson, Mark Zuckerberg says every internet platform has a responsibility to fund and form partnerships for news
media biz dev geniuses in my timeline today Michael Nuñez / @michaelfnunez : Couple of interesting details so far: - Zuck admits “majority of people don't use [secondary tabs]” meaning Marketplace, Gr...
Apple News+ could accelerate the demise of news outlets by decimating their revenue and disrupting publishers' relationships with readers
At the mercy of a new algorithm — Apple doesn't care about news, it cares about recurring revenue. That's why publishers are crazy to jump into bed with Apple News+. Tweets: @brianstelter , @johnwi...
Publishers are wary of Apple News given the company's secretive culture, disdain for advertising and the fact that big traffic doesn't translate to more money
You can't blame publishers for being wary when a giant Silicon Valley tech platform comes to them promising big new audiences and (someday) a way to make money off them.
Google AMP, Facebook's Instant Articles, and Apple News make articles from fake news sites look the same as those from Bloomberg and The New York Times
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