Let me quote a few things from Octal's App Store page [1] (emphasis mine):

> Octal is a modern, full-featured Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) client ...

> • Read and share Hacker News stories ... > • Upvote stories and comments you like ... > • Submit new posts to Hacker News ... > • Log in to Hacker News ... etc.

> About Hacker News: > Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by Paul Graham's investment fund and startup incubator, Y Combinator. In general, its content can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

On the one hand Apple is selling the dream of a privacy and security focused utopia, where all apps are well-curated and malware does not exist. And demanding a 30% cut of revenue from many apps in the process.

Then on the other hand presumably two of their reviewers could not be bothered to read the app description or do a few minutes of independent research to figure out what Octal and Hacker News really is.

It's hard to see what value Apple is providing in this case.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octal-hacker-news/id1308885491