Those are only 3 examples a ton of people pay for.
If you provide a good service, you will get subscribers. News have been available for free for decades thanks to OTA TV broadcasts. That's why people don't pay for it.
Niche journalism needs to have subscriptions since they can have way less views and people looking for news on that niche are ready to pay.
Would you pay a subscription for Flappy Bird?
I don't do that on the app store either.
And software was sold way before app stores existed, so what's your point?
I refuse to pay monthly for stuff that shouldn't need backend services.
There are somewhere over a billion web sites, dude. The number of those that are profitable with a subscription model (as opposed to being supported by advertising, or not being profitable at all) is a rounding error -- in the fourth or fifth decimal place.
Love to be able to pay for quality content.
Same with Spotify.
Both models are OK with me.
What I don't wanna pay for is every newspaper wanting a monthly subscribtion either I read something or not.
Content/news is a terrible example since there is an oversupply of poor quality content driven by providers who believe content supports their advertising revenue rather than the other way round.