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Trillian IM App in Approval Limbo



Cerulean Studios, the developer of the Trillian unified instant messaging and social networking application for multiple platforms, recently described the long wait for approval for its iPhone app in its blog:

It's been 60 days since our initial and only submission to the App Store. Unlike many of the horror stories you may have read about, we haven't yet received a rejection notice and we're not frantically going back and forth with Apple fixing reported problems. Despite sending a steady stream of emails to Apple requesting status updates, we continue to receive generic form letters in response - frustrating, to say the least.


The Trillian iPhone app will manage multiple IM accounts and will feature push notifications and integration with the company's Astra Service for contact synchronization and more. Despite the lack of explicit communication from Apple, Cerulean Studios notes that it is still "ready and willing to work to work with Apple to ensure the software meets all necessary requirements."

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Posted: 34 months ago
I so hope this gets approved soon. I'm dying to get this.

I freaking love Trillian!
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Posted: 34 months ago
Wow. Very sad to see a developer waiting 60 days for an app.
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Posted: 34 months ago
Apple really needs to fix this ridiculous approval process. This is a terrible way to treat developers; the very people that are making you all that money through the app store and through handset sales.

Applications should be available immediately after submission by the developer. Only if they are reportedly causing problems should they be removed.

Shame on you Apple.
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Posted: 34 months ago
One of my apps was more than four months before I sent an email to the generic developers email in which then they told me what was wrong (and then they decided to reject the binary).

I hope Trillian comes out. It's doing better than meebo though (which no news has been heard from them).
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Posted: 34 months ago

Apple really needs to fix this ridiculous approval process. This is a terrible way to treat developers; the very people that are making you all that money through the app store and through handset sales.

Applications should be available immediately after submission by the developer. Only if they are reportedly causing problems should they be removed.

Shame on you Apple.


Lol underlined for terrible idea.

Anyway, this is a massive system with thousands of apps being submitted a week. There are bound to be apps that slip through the cracks.
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Posted: 34 months ago
Remember that company called meebo that had a good app coming out for this kind of stuff?? whatever happened with that??
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Posted: 34 months ago
Dear Att:

When this comes out, I will cancel my texting plan.

Thank you.

Eddy~
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Posted: 34 months ago



Applications should be available immediately after submission by the developer. Only if they are reportedly causing problems should they be removed.


This is what I do for all software updates on our networks. Especially servers. I install it on everyones machine as soon as it comes out and if it causes problems, crashes, outages, etc... THEN I remove them. I mean why bother testing stuff out first?? Just a waste of time...

/sarcasm
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Posted: 34 months ago

I so hope this gets approved soon. I'm dying to get this.

I freaking love Trillian!


Yeah. I would really, really like to see this approved. :)
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Posted: 34 months ago
Trillian is an amazing client... APPROVE IT!
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