News users are not as many as Tim Cook claimed

One of the novelties that iOS 9 brought us, at least to the few countries where it is available, is the News application, an application that allows us to consult the latest news that interest us the most as we can already do with the Flipboard application. During the conference in which Tim Cook presented Apple's financial results for the fourth quarter of last year, the CEO of Apple took the opportunity to announce that the number of users of the new News application was about 40 million, without specifying whether they were users. habitual, sporadic or although they had only used the application to see how it worked.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple would be receiving erroneous statistics on the use of the service of the News applicationSo the Cupertino-based firm is miscalculating the number of users of the service. According to Eddy Cue, Apple has underestimated the number of users of the application since iOS 9 arrived on compatible devices in September. The problem is that these data have always been wrong and it is now when Apple has realized it and is working on it to solve the problem.

We are working on fixing that issue now, but our stats appear to be lower than what we announced. We don't really know the number of users, but it is better to underestimate the number than to inflate it and have false expectations.

Despite not knowing the number of real users of this new application, Eddy says that the application is increasingly used by users. News was released only in the United States. With the arrival of iOS 9.1 the service of this application expanded in the United Kingdom and Australia. The New York Times, CNN, ESPN, The Atlantic, The Daily Mail, Slate are some of the biggest publications that are currently using Apple's news platform.