Comments on: Apple Adds "App Store Review Status", Escalation Email, to iPhone Dev Center

By: dev

dev — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:00:38 +0000

All credibility has long since evaporated from the App Store. Developers grudgingly tolerate it because the iPhone itself is nice, Apple gives us no other choice, and can arbitrarily ding us with no recourse if we grumble.

That "good faith" coin was spent even faster -- long wait times, arbitrary rejections, and refusal to provide information to help a developer fix rejectable issues, and we are supposed to believe Apple is acting in good faith? The very notion is absurd. Now that they have demonstrated with the GV debacle that they are perfectly ok with yanking accepted, successful applications out from under a developer with no reason, the idea that Apple cares one iota about their developers strains credulity.

Even if we disregard Apple's blatant disregard through policy of developers and focus only on these technical process improvements, are we seriously expected to cheer that in 13 months, they have moved from what Reptile calls a 1.0 to a 1.1 release -- a release that half-heartedly addresses 5% of issues? In what other business would this be even remotely acceptable?

By: Erika

Erika — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:06:10 +0000

It seems like the majority of us are in that 4%, we def are...more than 3 weeks for approval of minor updates and longer for a new app.... I wonder do you guy know if it depends also on the status of partnership?

By: Mrburns

Mrburns — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:06:17 +0000

Hmm... It would be nice to have this as a dashboard widget **

By: Andrewnmartinez

Andrewnmartinez — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:34:01 +0000

@redth ya id like to try it out to if thats possible

By: Marty

Marty — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:06:01 +0000

Guess we're in that 4% too. Our 3D Camera app update was submitted exactly one month ago today, and we've heard nothing: http://bit.ly/W9530

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:15:18 +0000

oh and redth i'll volunteer to test your app out for you

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:08:51 +0000

still been way past the 14 days on gpush or Redth's app

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:06:32 +0000

yes 14, excuse my typo

By: Redth

Redth — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:38:41 +0000

@duvi I'll send you an email Tuesday. I'm on canadian holidays until then

By: @duvi

@duvi — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:27:05 +0000

@Redth Hello at me... I'd love to test it out. Duvi@C r a c k b e r r y .com if that's possible.

By: @duvi

@duvi — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:23:19 +0000

@Eric It's funny you say that as that was the first thing I was going to write. I'm glad they leave that margin for BS denials or even more BS, pending!

By: Earless puppy

Earless puppy — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:44:23 +0000

14 days Eric

By: Redth

Redth — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:29:03 +0000

Before I had even heard of gpush I had started making my app G-Push Mail

see http://gpushmail.com

I've been waiting over a month now with no activity on my servers to indicate they've done any work on reviewing it. I must be in that 4% as well!

By: The Reptile

The Reptile — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:09:35 +0000

I said it before and will say it again, the App Store was operating at a 1.0 release. Looks like they are moving up to version 1.1 with more to come.

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:07:05 +0000

So gpush is in the 4 percent of apps taking longer than 4 days