{"id":53813,"date":"2019-03-26T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=53813"},"modified":"2019-03-26T10:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T17:11:00","slug":"apples-news-app-includes-surfer-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=53813","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s News+ App Includes Surfer Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-53814\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1787-129x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"129\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1787-129x200.jpg 129w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1787-323x500.jpg 323w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1787.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 129px) 100vw, 129px\" \/>In a keynote address yesterday (March 25, 2019), <strong>Apple&#8217;s Tim Cook<\/strong> mentioned that their newly launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2019\/03\/apple-launches-apple-news-plus-an-immersive-magazine-and-news-reading-experience\/\"><strong>News+<\/strong><\/a> app is like having an &#8220;entire newsstand on your iPhone,&#8221; but for us, not so much. First, as we&#8217;ve been saying lately there aren&#8217;t many surf, snow, or skate magazines left, and second, the only one that made it onto the Apple app is <em><strong>Surfer Magazine<\/strong><\/em>. The new &#8220;Netflix for magazines&#8221; app charges users $9.99 a month for unlimited magazine viewing from at least 300 different magazine titles.<\/p>\n<p>For the olds who enjoy reading&nbsp;<em><strong>The New Yorker<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Vanity Fair<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>The Week<\/strong><\/em>, and <em>Surfer<\/em>, this new subscription model might not be terrible, but spending $120 a year for magazines that can only be read on iPhones, iPads, or Apple computers, doesn&#8217;t seem like the best deal when a <em>Surfer Magazine<\/em> subscription can be purchased online for $14. For more info on Apple News+ please click the link.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2019\/03\/apple-launches-apple-news-plus-an-immersive-magazine-and-news-reading-experience\/\">News+<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a keynote address yesterday (March 25, 2019), Apple&#8217;s Tim Cook mentioned that their newly launched News+ app is like having an &#8220;entire newsstand on your iPhone,&#8221; but for us, not so much. First, as we&#8217;ve been saying lately there aren&#8217;t many surf, snow, or skate magazines left, and second, the only one that made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53813"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53815,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53813\/revisions\/53815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}