Hacker News Reader

I‘m surprised to see the claim that the App Store approval rate is high for this sort of app. From the review guidelines:

> 4.2 Minimum Functionality

> Your app should include features, content, and UI that elevate it beyond a repackaged website. If your app is not particularly useful, unique, or “app-like,” it doesn’t belong on the App Store. If your App doesn’t provide some sort of lasting entertainment value or adequate utility, it may not be accepted.

View on HN

I have to think that in this case they mean "website" in the historical form as content vs "app-like" meaning like a web application. If you already have a web application and it works well on mobile, what more could they expect really?

If you are local news site, then this probably is going to be an issue. If your app allows someone to track how many package deliveries they have, then it likely already in a format they are happy with.

why surprised? more than 85% of all apps on the iOS app store use the web-view in one form or the other. App store require "minimum functionality", not minimum native stack if you read the clause you have quoted above carefully.

The quote says „features, content, and UI that elevate it beyond a repackaged website“. Using WKWebView to show ToS is different from generating a wrapper out of a random website.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com