Apple considers paid news subscription service in content push
Apple is readying itself for its first foray into the paid news subscription market with plans to dovetail integration of its newly acquired Texture magazine app within Apple News.
Apple considers paid news subscription service in content push
Such a move would be one of the first signs of Apple staking a claim in the burgeoning content and services sector as it seeks to diversify away from hardware sales.
Texture offers subscribers access to more than 200 magazines in return for $9.99 per month.
Apple has set itself an ambitious target of growing sales of its services division by 23% to $30bn during the 2017 fiscal year, with a view to hitting $50bn by 2021.
Last year Apple News offered publishers access to in app subscriptions for the first time.
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