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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
A bunch of the screen shots I'm seeing show an Aa menu to change font size. Perhaps that's only for certain magazines?
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I only looked at the Smithsonian magazine earlier and it was one of the scanned ones, so no adjustable text size, no flowing text, basically looked like a scan turned into a PDF. I just now looked the National Geographic magazine and it looks pretty good and was formatted for News+, but it had huge page margins. Not much formatting option though, only text size. I'm not sure why Apple didn’t use Books for the viewing platform, that would have been much better.
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Originally Posted by Jessica Lares
Not all magazines are formatted for Apple News right now. The ones that are have the ability to change font size. The New Yorker in particular has audio of their fiction pieces, but I've not seen anything else in the ones I've briefly gone through so far otherwise. They've managed to keep the ad spreads in, which I guess helped in the deal. If I remember correctly, Amazon managed to do away with those in the original Kindle formatted magazines (not sure if that's the case now).
For those wondering about archives, if you search for a magazine in Apple News, their main portal will have a backlog of recent issues. Most of them right now are just scans of the pages with the OCR'd text like in the above screenshots, but that'll change as time goes.
The first thing I thought when I heard about the Apple Card was that so many people have their credit reports frozen (including me) because of the Equifax breach. It's going to lead to problems for those that forgot all about it, and then other people will just not want to unfreeze a report just for that reason.
The other announcements didn't interest me either (nor do I think this News subscription will go well for them in the long run). More interested in the updated iPad mini from last week.
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I have my credit reports frozen because my account was one of the data breached ones. It took weeks to get all three frozen, and it costs money to get them unfrozen. It makes it tough to switch utility companies, cable companies, and apply for any credit since they cannot run your credit report, so many companies will want a deposit. My credit score is high, but it would take too long and cost too much to temporarily unfreeze the reports then refreeze them. The government should require the credit boroughs to make the process quick and cheap, but they don’t, and it is a huge hassle. I had just bought my house and a car about two years before the breach, and already had enough credit cards, so it is easier to leave the credit reports frozen, but occasionally it becomes a hassle when I try to switch utility plans or something similar.