Someone needs to make a "Netflix for news", where you pay one monthly subscription and get access to almost everything. Then distribute the money to the sites I visit, just like Netflix or Spotify.
I see two challenges:
* Getting news sites on board. The more "premium" sites may be unwilling to give away access for cheap, but in general news orgs are desperate for a reliable income stream. Maybe a 20/articles per month limit would be fine for some sites.
* Unlike Netflix etc, it needs to work in more than one app: Each news sites own app, in the browser, and the mini-browsers inside social media apps. I don't want to type in passwords all the time just to read an article someone shared.
Apple is in a great position to do this. They have the experience with iTunes/Apple Music, and they have the leverage to make one subscription work in all apps. I just hope they don't intentionally break it on Android or Windows.
I see two challenges:
* Getting news sites on board. The more "premium" sites may be unwilling to give away access for cheap, but in general news orgs are desperate for a reliable income stream. Maybe a 20/articles per month limit would be fine for some sites.
* Unlike Netflix etc, it needs to work in more than one app: Each news sites own app, in the browser, and the mini-browsers inside social media apps. I don't want to type in passwords all the time just to read an article someone shared.
Apple is in a great position to do this. They have the experience with iTunes/Apple Music, and they have the leverage to make one subscription work in all apps. I just hope they don't intentionally break it on Android or Windows.