A closer look at Apple News and Flipboard, two must-have apps in the age of coronavirus – AppleTV 4 Jailbreak (appletv4jailbreak.com)
- In the age of the coronavirus and with other major news stories reshaping our world right now including everything from Trump administration policies to the Black Lives Matter movement, mobile apps like Apple News and Flipboard have become more useful than ever.
- In this post, we’ll take a closer look at the features of both, to help you potentially decide which one is right for you.
- Both are fantastic news reader apps, but there are some key differences.
Scrolling through the Apple News app on my iPhone XR the other day — one of the many different drivers of traffic for this site outside of the usual suspects like Google and social networks — it struck me how much I’d come to rely on apps other than Twitter in the age of the coronavirus to keep up with news, as well as pop culture and other things I care about. Where Twitter has increasingly descended into a dumpster fire of idiocy, racism, misogyny, and, overall, an efficient clearinghouse for peoples’ opinions and witticisms that aren’t that useful to me at the end of the day, news aggregator apps (like Apple News, as well as Flipboard) fulfill a need for a news junkie like me, in that I don’t have to wade through people’s comments and posts to find the news I care about. Scroll through Apple News, or page through Flipboard, and the news is just … there, ready and waiting.
In this post, I’m going to compare and contrast Apple News and Flipboard, partly because both apps have made big strides recently compared to where they were even just a year or so ago. As I alluded to earlier, this is a historic moment we’re living in right now, characterized by news events that are upending life around the globe (the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement and protests serving as two recent examples). Point being, both of these apps do a great job of helping people making sense of everything going on right now, in addition to keeping up with your own personal passions and interests. Let’s dive in and take a closer look at each.
I’m going to start with Apple News. For both app-specific sections below, I should add, I’m going to encompass recent developments and updates associated with the app, as well as some of my own thoughts after spending a significant amount of time using each (the thoughts laid out in no particular order). Note: Apple News, of course, is only available to people who use Macs, iPhones, and iPads, while Flipboard is available to both iOS and Android users (in addition to offering a Web version).
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Fast Facts: Apple News comes preinstalled on all new iPhones and iPads, and it’s also available…
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