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Comment by salvar | Hacker News Reader

This seems weird enough to be an error of some kind. Not that Apple is likely to fix it, but enforcing this rule would exclude:

- All Reddit apps

- All HN apps

- Twitter

- Facebook

- Google News

- Any link or news aggregator

I guess even a browser wouldn't fly, since it "displays full articles from multiple news sources."

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Unless they are cracking down on apps that do nothing but republish links and feeds. Most Reddit apps will let you post and engage; some HN apps will do that too (shout out to my beloved Minihack). This particular app didn't, so it's difficult to argue that it provided anything more than republishing links... something that surely should be done only by their News app now /s

I guess... but that still leaves pretty much all news aggregators. Google News doesn't let you do much other than read news from all over the internet. It's functionally exactly the same, only with a different aggregating algorithm.

It's been a while since I developed an iOS app, but I seem to remember there being a rule that you "app" can't just be a wrapper for a web site.

Even the Hangouts client opens links which people send me in its own internal browser— a behaviour I actually don't care for, since I'd prefer it spawned tabs in the regular Safari app. But it's exactly the same thing this guy is getting in trouble for.

? A lot of reddit and HN apps don't display the articles in app. Some of them open browser pages. I don't see how your "All ... apps" is quantified.

Fair enough. I'll amend it to "All Reddit, HN and Twitter apps I have ever seen"

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