Apple News…

[LuFins Dad]

Any other Apple owners notice that the Apple News aggregator leans decidedly left? It’s just an aggregator and pulls items from various news sources and you can control the sources a little by following certain sources, but the choices they give you are decidedly left leaning. HuffPost, Mother Jones, MSNBC, Politico, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone… The only rightward option I can see on there is Fox News. No Daily Wire, Breitbart, NY Post, Washington Times…

[Axtremus]

Maybe a result of self-selection on the supply side: the news publishers whom you consider "right leaning" have mostly chosen not to be on Apple News.

[jon-nyc]

It has the WSJ too.

But I suspect Ax is right. Whomever pays gets on.

[LuFins Dad]

You are both wrong. Apple actually pays them to use the content.

[jon-nyc]

Apparently they share Apple News + revenues (the subscription service).

On the free app they can sell their own ads in their stories and keep 100% of the revenue but don’t get paid.

If they let Apple sell the ads, Apple gives them a cut.

[89th]

Don't think I've ever opened the Apple News thing once, so I'm not sure.

I do enjoy this iPhone 17 pro btw. Great battery, feels nearly the same as my iPhone 12 (I was expecting it to feel bigger/heavier), and the iOS 26 updates are really quite nice overall. The camera zoom is absolutely incredible and I just discovered today the ability to "clean up" a photo by selecting a person in it and making them disappear, back-to-the-future style. Like if you have a random stranger you'd rather not have standing there.

[jon-nyc]

In IOS 27 maybe that will work with clothing. So you could make some random person naked in your photo.

[mark]

I just purchased my first Apple Watch. The Ultra 3 in black with the titanium band. I made a watch face using my photograph of M42. It will make a kaleidoscope of any image and it animates it too.

Also have some high end watch faces like Rolex, Patek Philippe, Tag Heuer, Breitling.

[89th]

Cool photo!

[mark]

I went all in and also purchased a pair of the new Air Pod Pro 3 earbuds. The active noise cancellation is next level good. Starting to warm back up to the Apple infrastructure. Working for a Apple Premiere Partner is 100% to blame. lol

[Axtremus]

Apple removed ICE tracking app from the AppStore following request from the Trump administration:

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/03/nx-s1-5561999/apple-google-iceblock-app-removal

Google has also removed similar apps from its PlayStore.