so the kind of news that we're hoping to deliver is breaking news. because we'll be push notifying you of breaking news, the goal would be to ONLY deliver good, quality news (in our opinion) and not everything that we can possibly find. we don't want to kill your device with 100 tweets a day. that's just way too much.
what will be missing would be blogger opinions etc. that generally go everywhere - unless that opinion happens to become a story of its own.
we're drop dead focused on simplicity and keeping the interface clean. i'll be sure to let you know when.
unfortunately, i dont have anything to show you yet. we're in week 4 of development. one more week and we'll submit the app to the app store. trust me, all these features will be laid out extremely simply with a great user interface and design (in my biased opinion).
for subscription, we plan on charging $1.99/month, $4.99/quarterly and $19.99/annually.
you're right about the badges. that's just to get the engagement going in the beginning, but you will eventually see them evolve into something much more useful and perhaps you would be able to unlock real-life prizes like gift cards, sponsor supported gadgets etc.
