Apple announced in March last year the launch of Apple News +, a service for magazine subscription that emphasized the free service of Apple News, and that as yet, it seems to have never had a public response predicted by Apple after purchasing Teature a year earlier.
However, the active service is the free version of Apple News (launched in 2015), an application that provides access media main online of countries where it is located: United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. The latest official data on the number of users shows how this service is used by 125 million users every month.
This data represents an increase of 25 billion platform users in one quarter, since the official user statistics were announced at the conference for results related to the first quarter of 2020 (the last quarter of 2019), stood a hundred million.
It is possible that part of the increase is Apple's special spread in coronavirus-related data, special thanks to the media such as CNN, The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. This section not only provides timely data on the nature of the violence and the real-time map of coronavirus proliferation, but also shows a series of strategies to combat coronavirus viability.
Regarding the number of users who rely on Apple News +, the monthly subscription service for Apple, because it's included within Apple News user data, it's very likely that we'll know at some point. whether or not Apple's commitment to the magazine was appropriate. The set of rumored services that Apple was planning to open throughout the year, revealed that this was not the case.