<story><title>Apple News No Longer Supports RSS</title><url>https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/12/26/apple-news-no-longer-supports-rss/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>Apple&amp;#x27;s hijacking of links, addresses, etc, is possibly their top abuse of power.&lt;p&gt;The other possible top abuse is the way they block you in your group messages if you switch from iPhone to Android.</text></item><item><author>simonw</author><text>The weirdest thing about this is that Apple News still hijacks links to Atom&amp;#x2F;RSS feeds - so if you click on one of those links in Mobile Safari you&amp;#x27;ll be bounced to the News app, which will then display an error.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s a video I recorded of this behaviour: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;simonw&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1210622908143415297&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;simonw&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1210622908143415297&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think I&amp;#x27;d rather they displayed a dump of ugly XML in the browser, just so I could copy and paste the URL into a feed reading app (I quite like Reeder for iOS and OSX these days).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not even sure their engineers understand how annoying it is. They&amp;#x27;ve implemented links in such a horrible way, and it&amp;#x27;s gotten worse with time (for example, there is a feature where if you open a link and have the right associated app installed, it will open the link in the app. There used to be a way to force the link to open in Safari in case you didn&amp;#x27;t want to open the app; it&amp;#x27;d show up in the top right. The feature is gone now and it&amp;#x27;s hidden in a very strange place that is unintuitive to find and difficult to perform–you need to long press on the link and open it from there, but this invariably happens after you&amp;#x27;ve opened the link, it opens the app, and you go back to Safari to now open it there.)</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple News No Longer Supports RSS</title><url>https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/12/26/apple-news-no-longer-supports-rss/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>Apple&amp;#x27;s hijacking of links, addresses, etc, is possibly their top abuse of power.&lt;p&gt;The other possible top abuse is the way they block you in your group messages if you switch from iPhone to Android.</text></item><item><author>simonw</author><text>The weirdest thing about this is that Apple News still hijacks links to Atom&amp;#x2F;RSS feeds - so if you click on one of those links in Mobile Safari you&amp;#x27;ll be bounced to the News app, which will then display an error.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s a video I recorded of this behaviour: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;simonw&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1210622908143415297&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;simonw&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1210622908143415297&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think I&amp;#x27;d rather they displayed a dump of ugly XML in the browser, just so I could copy and paste the URL into a feed reading app (I quite like Reeder for iOS and OSX these days).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ljm</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not convinced it&amp;#x27;s an abuse of power; it&amp;#x27;s a feature any developer can take advantage of. Your apps get their own protocol, so you can deep-link into one using a URI. But you can also register them to open certain contents natively.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure how it works, maybe there&amp;#x27;s some metadata in the HTML. You can see the same thing in action with the Jira app on Cataline now - any Jira link you click will load up and render in the native app.&lt;p&gt;That said, it&amp;#x27;s definitely a problem when you&amp;#x27;re redirecting these links to things you don&amp;#x27;t actually support any more, without any way to opt out.</text></comment>