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« on: July 14, 2015, 09:00:12 pm »

Hands-on with News in iOS 9: Apple's response to Facebook and Snapchat's content platforms

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Like Facebook and Snapchat, Apple has partnered with news publishers to deliver a beautiful and fast-loading editorial experience on its home turf. </p><p>
On Thursday, the iOS 9 public beta introduced a completely new native app: News. Similar to Flipboard, News uses RSS feeds to deliver stories from different publishers together in a magazine-style layout. News, however, does away with Flipboard’s built-in social capabilities, like incorporating a feed of just links shared by your Twitter network.</p><p>
Previously, iOS devices had a Newsstand folder that served as a hub for newspaper and magazine apps.  Newsstand is gone in iOS 9—all your Newsstand apps are still there, and any newspaper or magazine subscriptions remain active, but the apps are placed in a regular (read: deleteable) folder instead.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2947012/software-news/hands-on-with-news-in-ios-9-apples-response-to-facebook-and-snapchats-content-platforms.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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