Am currently working at setting up some subscription apps for real daily or weekly "needs" when paying gives a substantially better experience or really fills a gap in daily positive habits.

For instance, some things like:

- MONDAY for biz

- Workflowy for list-making with modern instant save+sync

- Down Dog HIIT for daily/bi-daily workout routine

- Elevate for practical mind training

- EveryDollar for budgeting

- YouTube Premium for music and option to turn screen off when just listening

- GPT-4 for personal strategy or social media analysis and tweaking plus DALL-E image generation

- LinkedIn Premium for professional networking

- and a number of slightly unrelated repeat supplement or powder subscriptions from various co's.

- I use a Free podcast downloader/reader that works with either RSS text or Podcast Audio...called RSS Reader Offline | Podcast.

- I use a Free Samsung Health for cardio (walking or running)

As for News... Criteria to be met:

- concise

- an air of positivity

- w/ an air of insight AND multi-dimension perspective

- short videos

- cross-device (both web & mobile)

Optional Nice criteria:

- keep videos playing in upper-half of smartphone screen

- open new "tabs" for topically-related & insightful converging tech or trends to watch type pieces

- (bookmarking/sharing) built-in partial(s) highlight or save of their content AND allow me to make notes and share on social apps

- using AI/machine-learning, notify of future updates on-demand, or tell me the updates/steps in progress in the past

- using AI search automatically on-further-demand, show the top images for social media or media/site posts & articles

- find top podcasts (through filter of who I like following or what's estimated to fit in with who I have shown I like (podcast & channel subscriptions plus a few that might seem to cover the whole spectrum of topics/views on said piece of news really comprehensively)

- create automatically an interactive weekly, daily, and twice-daily, plus quick glance blurb news BRIEFING

--> where I can interact audio, video, text+video hybrid, plus quick glance blurb news

--> interactively skip or pause

--> interactively (bookmarking/sharing)

--> watch as it casts on large TV

--> listen through bluetooth headphones even while casting onto TV

--> automatically set off an alarm on smartphone and through human confirmation that I can listen or watch, with my voice command/response or a quick pattern on screen (no matter how I actually use fingerprint normally to unlock screen) OR put on bluetooth headphones and through one of those confirmations, go straight to a smartphone bluetooth activate and pair setting and only start playing when it's playing through headphones

So although I don't necessarily expect all of the optional criteria to be met, it would be nice if there was something that implemented these types of things, and then maybe some wise one can invent this thing for the furtherance of human happiness and convenience through human_behavior-centric technological magic.

So these are the things I think a news app should do for my new/update news experience.