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"Insurers and Insurtechs have always had to persevere through extreme inflation in their market—the most recent example is the steep increase in indemnity for escape of water claims in the market. In this situation, top-performing players managed to tightly control inflation and achieve substantially lower indemnity. Insurance is a way to manage your risk. When you buy insurance, you purchase protection against unexpected financial losses. The insurance company pays you or someone you choose if something bad happens to you. If you have no insurance and an accident happens, you may be responsible for all related costs, according to Beinsure Insurance News. Insurtechs target primarily pure risk insurance, where they have developed access points to the value chain based on innovation. Technologies such as telematics and the Internet of Things have enabled new product development in motor, home, and health that drive customer engagement and retention. Examples of Insurtech Solving Traditional Insurance Challenges: Claims management, Underwriting automation, Smart contracts, Fraud & risk prevention, Customer identification verification. Insurtech is the term given to companies and products that are using technology to innovate within the insurance industry. It comes from joining ‘insurance’ and ‘technology’, much like the word ‘fintech’. In fact, some people would describe insurtech as a subset of fintech. "

One of the new services that Apple announced on March 25 is Apple News+. Building on a free platform that the company debuted in 2017 with iOS 9, Apple has added magazines, newspapers, and premium websites to create a subscription-based service.

Unlike the other services that Apple announced on Monday, Apple News+ is available now, with the latest updates to iOS (12.2) and macOS (10.14.4). You can check it out in the News app by clicking News+ in the sidebar, and you can sign up for a one-month free trial.

Formatting is not ideal on all devices

As for readability, the ideal device seems to be the iPad. On the iPhone, many elements are too small, and PDF-style content is very hard to read. On the Mac, content is in narrow columns, which does not help readability. Apple seems to be formatting things the same way on all devices, which is a mistake. For example, if I look at The New Yorker, articles may begin with artwork, which is extremely large on the Mac, requiring me to scroll quite far to see text, whereas on the iPad or iPhone, this artwork fits well with the layout.

Is Apple News+ worth the price?

The main question for users is whether this package of magazines, newspapers, and websites is worth $10 a month. (Note that this price is the same if you have set up Family Sharing, unlike with Apple Music, where you pay extra for a family plan.) For me, it’s not much of an improvement over Readly, which costs the same, and has far more magazines (though much more junk that I’m not interested in). The only thing that could sway me is some titles that I cannot get on Readly.

For example, The New Yorker costs $99 a year for a digital subscription—only $20 less than a year’s worth of Apple News+. However, one of the quirks of this system is that I will not be able to read articles on the New Yorker website, because my account will be with Apple. (Apple News+ includes a digital subscription to only the New Yorker magazine, but not the New Yorker website.) Viewing articles from the New Yorker channel in Apple News only shows a summary, and you have to click through to their website, where you are only allowed to view four free articles a month. Since there is interesting content on their website that is not published in the magazine, this could be frustrating. I assume the same is true for other publications that have similar limitations.