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Not at all.
When you open a website in Safari from an app, the user gets a first class website-browser experience without your chrome, and a "< Back to your app" button in the menuline.
This might be a good time to reconsider what made iOS the best platform for this application in the first place. For example, can the app be re-packaged as an HTML5 app instead? What's the compelling advantage for building on iOS for this application?
Why not launch Safari when the user clicks on an article? And make it clear that you have permission from HN to use their API? Having used your app for exactly one minute, that seems like it would address their concerns and preserve usability.
Apple told you what to do: > Require users to customize their news sources upon launching your app Make it a setting. Anyone who is going to use your app is qualified to paste a URL into a text field (or click a radio button indicating they want to use news.yc vs old.xy)
- How many articles per page
- Only article with N upvotes
- Don't display articles already read
- etcIt seems to me by saying "Attach documentary evidence in the App Review Information section in App Store Connect granting you permission to use these sources" they are just asking for a paper trail of your rights to use that information. Why can't you include the agreement for the API as documentation of this? Seems really straight forward. They are trying to protect themselves, not get into a philosophical battle ov…