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Post by sadie on Oct 17, 2011 14:40:58 GMT -5
Apple released version five of its iOS operating system Wednesday afternoon, which includes the new Newsstand feature that helps users collect and organize apps for newspapers and magazines.
Newsstand collects (some of) your news apps in a virtual bookshelf. So far, the Newsstand store is dominated by magazines, including major titles like Wired, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Car and Driver and Cosmopolitan. A few English-language newspapers, including The San Francisco Chronicle, The Oklahoman and The Guardian, have Newsstand apps available.
Newsstand pretty much functions as expected, though it seems a little confusing, at least in this early phase, to have two different places for news apps. The iTunes store still has the “news” category containing all news apps, only a few of which have also been set up as Newsstand apps. (For iPad, there are 4,331 news apps, only 136 of them currently work with Newsstand.)
That said, iOS 5 is only a few hours old. It will likely take weeks for most users to download it and for most news organizations to decide whether to update their apps to use the Newsstand.
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Post by sadie on Oct 25, 2011 10:12:24 GMT -5
Has anyone tried out the newsstand feature on iPhone? I downloaded the NY Times......it was free. You don't have access to the entire paper....you have to pay for that. There are not many magazines to choose from yet.....
There is Disney Family Fun, Guitar World Magazine, Whitelines Magazine, .net, Freedom BMX, Inside Sunday, How it Works, Good Housekeeping, Health and Fitness, Total Guitar, Harper's Bazaar UK, Runner's World, New Beauty Magazine, #5 Magazine, and the Oklahoman.
That is actually more than last week so they seem to be adding them daily.
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