Comments on: Apple’s Newsstand unsubscription process is a joke

By: Andriana

Andriana — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 22:41:33 +0000

Thanks heaps! I have been trying everything I could think of to no avail. Auto subscribe is now cancelled thanks to your very clear instructions. What a relief!

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 01:21:01 +0000

Thanks for clever people putting helpful stuff on the internet. it’s all we’ve got to keep a tiny portion of the balance in our favour.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:00:23 +0000

“It would seem like everything to do with the print industry is archaic, even when it moves into the digital world.”

I spent 9 months in the central digital departmentment of a major newspaper company and trust me it seems archaic because it IS archaic. Every moment I spent there was frustrating to say the least and I don’t think I achieved anything useful there except a nice VR payment when I left.

By: Simon Johnson

Simon Johnson — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:13:00 +0000

The worst in the New York TImes as you can subscribe through the Apple Store, or the NYT website. The problem is that your account shows on their website. The NYT shows you have a subscription that will renew every month, whereas the Apple one shows the opposite. Nothing is joined up and customer service is slow and disjointed.

It would seem like everything to do with the print industry is archaic, even when it moves into the digital world.

For sure, the Apple unsubscribe process is a Dark pattern.

By: Rachel Reveley

Rachel Reveley — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:56:16 +0000

Something else about Newsstand that’s a joke…

Try putting the icon in a group, it wont go , absolutely the only one that refuses to go in to one.

So you know what I did? I stuck it on the last screen where I’ll never ever see it.

To be honest I don’t know what it does but like their book app I refuse to try it because they keep trying to foist it on me every time I load up the App store on my iPad..

By: David J

David J — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:24:08 +0000

they are thinking ……. they don’t want you to unsubscribe heh ….