Apple’s podcast client has some ability to subscribe to the premium version of some podcasts. So they seem to have something vaguely like this. It still appears to be a monthly/yearly subscription thing though.
I decided to poke around the news app based on your comment, but I only see monthly subscriptions, sadly.
I get that newspapers want the reliable recurring subscription instead, but it just seems to weird to me that they were willing to concede to users and sell a single issue when the papers were, well, paper, but not digital. I mean it should be easier with digital, they don’t have to even make any projections about how many to print!
I mean yeah you can't pick articles ala cart from Apple News, but you can pay for one subscription to get access to a bunch of different news sources, and it presumably distributes your subscription fee (minus Apple's cut) to news sources depending on what and how many articles you actually read. Which is sort of like what you were talking about?
Oh, I didn’t realize that it was offering a single “Apple News+” subscription, I thought it was like the premium offered in Apple Podcasts.
That’s a little more interesting.
IMO an architecture that was a little more distributed and ala cart, as you say, would be nice. But it is definitely neat that at least somebody is taking a swing at this kind of solution.
