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I'd imagine the compelling advantage is being a native iOS application: "I wasn’t satisfied with the features of the Hacker News clients I had downloaded from the app store".

It looks like I wasn't clear - I'm suggesting an in-browser app independent of iOS and the app store.

That would be the same from a legal standpoint. You app would just get shittier UX, nothing else.

This is not a situation where legality is in play, it's an Apple policy rejection. Apple can say it's "for legal reasons" but Apple is enforcing it, not the government. Nobody is suing OP.

I think what your parent comment is saying is that the Apple policy rejection would be exactly the same whether the app is native or HTML5.

Discovery via the app store.