The event was a massive hit and Apple News+ got more than 200,000 subscribers within 48 hours, the data is based on The New York Times report.

Apple News+ is a subscription-based service offered by Apple that provides access to a wide range of digital magazines and newspapers. In its first week of launch, Apple News+ managed to attract over 200,000 subscribers. The service offers users the ability to browse and read content from popular publications across various categories, including news, lifestyle, entertainment, and more. With its vast selection of magazines and newspapers, Apple News+ aims to provide a convenient and comprehensive platform for users to stay informed and entertained.

The Apple News+ app didn’t fall far from the tree

The only service introduced by Apple last week was Apple News+ which is headlined by The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times and provides its user to choose from more than 300 popular magazines and publications. After a month of the free trial, the users will have to pay $9.99 which is $10 obviously, and $12.99 in Canada. The service is yet to be released in Australia and Europe and for the global audience later this year.

The service is modeled after Texture, which Apple acquired last year. Before being acquired by Apple Texture used to provide a subscription to only 200 magazines and digital publications so Apple’s strategy is to build up a number of the audience by providing more choices by shutting down Texture and moving its user to apple news+. John Loughlin, Ceo of Texture stated in 2016 that it has more than “hundreds of thousands” of users.

A dozen of high-profile brands will grace Apple’s screen everywhere. The titles will cover a wide cross-section of interests including style and beauty (Vogue, InStyle), food (Bon Appetit), and science and technology (National Geographic, Scientific American) also offering feature publications focused on business and politics (Time, The Atlantic), travel (Conde Nast Traveler), sports (Runners World, Sports Illustrated), and entertainment (People, Vanity Fair). Readers will also get access to several popular digital publications, like TechCrunch and Wired.

While providing its users with services like this the main agenda of Apple is obviously to retain its position as a trillion-dollar company and generate a hefty revenue. Apple managed to generate approximately $ 256 billion in revenue in the past 12 months, and if the 200k subscribers continued their subscription even after the trial period expires it will only generate 24 million dollars for Apple and that is before the publisher’s cut. This is a good strategy for recurring income and a bright future for Apple News+.

Further, he added, the scene is expected to move from a European-US manufacturing duopoly to support a third party – that’s reasonably the Chinese.

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Shukor Yusof [founder of aviation advisory firm Endau Analytics], said:

“Do not underrate Chinese strength to penetrate businesses”

Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, made the planes of have enticed plenty of criticism. People from industry think Chinese built jets-will confront the Boeing and Airbus in the latest sitting. Analysts say that with the change in time. State-Backed Comac being part of China’s broader push toward high-tech manufacturing, can stimulate the organized opponents.

ARJ21 jet has only 90-seat, in its service. Still, after grieving setbacks and being bothered with additional difficulties, the aircraft has been thoroughly expelled as inferior to planes from opponents such as Brazil’s Embraer and Canada’s Bombardier.

One of the critics, Richard Aboulafia [Teal Group aviation analyst], says :
During when the aircraft was promoted as an evidence China would become the succeeding big jet maker. As it transformed into heavy and stunningly antiquated merchandise that has no significance away from China’s miniature regional airline sector.

Comac is with prominent goals for the C919. With168 people, China’s leading giant passenger jet is intended to contest with Boeing’s 737 Max and Airbus’s A320neo.

Comac

The ARJ21 and the C919, the two built jets running with Russia on a part.

The data of consultancy Frost & Sullivan records the firm has received nearly 1,000 pledges for the C919, often from Chinese airlines and domestic leasing firms. The plan booklet covers the country’s three major carriers Air China, China Eastern, and China Southern. Nevertheless, some continue dubious that Comac bumps its 2021 target addressing the obstacles that encompassed its first plane.

Mr. Aboulafia further, states there is serious jeopardy that in course of time C919, inscribes service Airbus and Boeing brings a reliable model on the proposal. Comac further is amplifying the CR929, in alliance with Russia, an aircraft with a reach of 12,000km, where 280 travelers can be seated.

In December, its third experimental flight finished and beginning performances are slated for 2021.

Currently, it is China’s aviation regulator who solely has been certified Comac to fly. Its craft may additionally operate in elements of South America, Asia, and Africa which had to acknowledge Chinese certification.

But then, to extend on far fetching reach of those markets it requires the green light-weight from the U.S.A.  It includes the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), those approvals are extracted from bound.

Ellis Taylor [Flight Global’s Asia finance editor], says:

Enormous punctuation is left over whether or not it’ll receive a Western certification.  As Comac had hoped that the ARJ21 most probably would receive official certification but this has been deferred indefinitely.Survival: Comac gets the path to a huge and expanding market, even though the doors remain shut.

China’s aviation market is anticipated to overhaul the USA, by the mid-2020s. However, the crisis towards Boeing may produce supplementary care in locally-made options. It’s a significant emptor of Western planes.

All you have to do to get started is say “Hey Google, tell me a story” which brings you tales such as Let’s Be Firefighters and Robot Rampage. You can ask the Google Assistant narrate a bedtime story to help kids sleep well, and it does that simply.

Important: You have to have the Google Play Books’ latest version installed on your phone.

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Using this feature is not so difficult, you just have to teach your child to say “Hey Google, tell me a story” though kids of this generation already know a lot of features. Google Assistant will do its job and narrate a bedtime story for your children such as Let’s be firefighters, Tortoise, and the Hare and many more stories.

It also includes a feature of “read along” which will provide sound effects on Home smart speakers and the kids will read aloud. If you have a favorite audiobook of your child on google play, you can ask the Google assistant to read it out loud.

There are times when we have seen Tech Companies always trying to bring in more features and pros to their product in order to be better than the competition. Well, we can see a pretty similar job done by Google here too. Tech Giant, Google has officially announced its own free, ad-supported music service for Google Home speakers.

Now, this will be completely free, but with Advertisements. The users can listen to almost any track from the YouTube Music catalog for completely free.

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This “Free” Music service for Google Home or Google Assistant Speakers will be available in countries including the United States,  Australia, Ireland, Germany, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Japan, Netherlands, and Austria. Now, Google is working on it and soon we can see it happening for more countries.

Anyways, this service will be free for only the Google Home users and not the Phone users. It seems like that Google has taken this step in order to influence the users to opt-in for the YouTube Music Premium ($9.99/month), which enables listening ad-free music on both supporting smart speakers and the YouTube Music mobile app for Android. This also lets users play background music while using any other apps or downloading tracks for offline listening.

Just in case if you missed, the Amazon also announced the debut of a free music option for Amazon Alexa users in the United States on Thursday. They also announced their Prime music service which offers well over 2 million songs along with the nd Amazon Music Unlimited, which is an Amazon’s on-demand music service starting at $9.99 per month ($7.99 for Prime members).