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<h1 class="article-title">dl? cmplnts? in Apple News</h1>
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<time class="article-timestamp" datetime="2015-06-29T23:14:42-07:00">June 29, 2015</time>
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<p>I submitted this blog to Apple via <a href="https://developer.apple.com/news-publisher/">News Publisher</a> a few days after the WWDC keynote, just to get a feel for the submission process. It was easy; basically I just needed to provide an <a href="/atom.xml">Atom 1.0</a> or <a href="/rss.xml">RSS 2.0</a> feed, both of which I already have anyway.<a class="footnoteRef" href="#fn1" id="fnref1"><sup>1</sup></a> I was told at the end of the submission process that my submission would be reviewed.</p>
<p>Just now, quite surprisingly, I got the acceptance email from News Publisher:</p>
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<p>The link to my channel appears to be</p>
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<p><a class="uri" href="https://news.apple.com/TdEf82WUNSQeNOsvYyyu48Q">https://news.apple.com/TdEf82WUNSQeNOsvYyyu48Q</a></p>
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<p>But at the time of writing, trying to open this page just turns up a "sorry, this item isn't available in Apple News". Not sure if the page hasn't been updated, or if I really need an iOS 9 device to access. My current guess is the former — there's no reason Apple won't provide a channel preview in good ol' HTML.<a class="footnoteRef" href="#fn2" id="fnref2"><sup>2</sup></a> I don't have an iOS 9 device yet, so I don't know how well my content, especially preformatted code blocks, will fare in News. Either way I won't adjust my content, but it would be fun to see the capabilities of Apple's official "RSS reader".</p>
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<p><em>June 30, 2015 update:</em> The page has been updated, and now the message makes much more sense:</p>
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<p class="caption">Apple News is coming soon. This channel or topic is only available in Apple News.</p>
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<li id="fn1"><p>Of course my content isn't really optimized for the Apple News format, but why would I care.<a class="footnotes-backlink" href="#fnref1">↩︎</a></p></li>
<li id="fn2"><p>Or maybe they will only open up regular browser traffic after iOS 9 stable is released.<a class="footnotes-backlink" href="#fnref2">↩︎</a></p></li>
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