It looks like there will be a desktop portion. You can see that by AirDropping one of the News stories to a mac. It loads a page on Apple.com that says News is coming this fall. So perhaps it will be web based for the desktop?
It hooks into Siri. That's pretty big for some.Here is how I gather news content, I use Feedly,Flipboard, Twitter,and Google News, though mostly is Flipboard and Feedly. I recommend this apps, along using pocket to save your bookmarks, this app doesn't really do anything new.
I can't get any site to work with it yet and now the share sheet Add to News icon doesn't show for me at times. I just rebooted and it's back again. I think it's just being buggy. The news app seems to crash frequently when looking through explore. Beta for sure there.Yeah, I tried that but when I pull the news app up it shows a channel for MR start to appear then doesn't. I haven't figured out how to resolve yet but I'm not too concerned since, well, this is a beta release.
People with such conditions should not be making iPhone how to videos.Why bother making fun of people for something they can't help? Did it not cross yur minds that he might have a medical condition? It's called "clubbed thumb" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clubbed_thumb
So I upgraded to iOS9 BETA 3 and no News App for me.
Could be as I'm from Australia.