[berns]

From the app store 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.

[noir_lord]

4.3 We'll continue to get away with this until the EU makes us stop.

[nicoburns]

Would push notification support not be exactly the kind of feature that would qualify for this rule? In practice there are hundreds of apps like this on the app store.

[SlowRobotAhead]

Right! I ran in to this when I wanted our app to “portal” to the website and just move Bluetooth data along. Apple thought about this and doesn’t like it.

[cma]

Perhaps the main distinguishing app-like thing is distracting notifications.