Apple Adds Status Updates to App Store Approval Process

wow. took a day to be approved?

lucky.

wow. took a day to be approved?

lucky.

I don't think that's the case. What happens sometimes is that the full status report that you see there doesn't get populated until after the app goes from Waiting for Review to In Review, so the timestamp on the Waiting For Review is just a few minutes before In Review even though it was probably Waiting for Review for much longer than that.

Here's mine... It's actually getting reviewed 2 days faster than last time:

November 06, 2009 06:37 - Waiting for Review
November 12, 2009 09:55 - In Review

wow. took a day to be approved?

lucky.

look at the users. It is Apple and all the timing on it is completely marketing BS. Apple put in an "app" and just put pure BS to make it look like it is faster and no were close to what the truth is.

look at the users. It is Apple and all the timing on it is completely marketing BS. Apple put in an "app" and just put pure BS to make it look like it is faster and no were close to what the truth is.

Maybe read the article.

Each status update is accompanied with a time and date. (In the screenshot above, the developer’s name and app were omitted for the sake of privacy, and to prevent violating a nondisclosure agreement.)

It'd be interesting to see the status of the google voice app.

look at the users. It is Apple and all the timing on it is completely marketing BS. Apple put in an "app" and just put pure BS to make it look like it is faster and no were close to what the truth is.

No, the "User" field indicates who affected the listed status change. In other words, it should say Apple for any changes related to reviewing the app, regardless of who the developer is. All of the various status changes that my apps have seen so far have Apple as the user.

"...it is regarded as a significant improvement.." :confused:

Significant my arse! With no timelines it means nothing more than before. :rolleyes:

Trillian has been "in review" for almost 3 months now with no "ready for sale" date in sight.

There is absolutely zero excuse for apple to have any "waiting for review" period other than the time it takes for the reviewer to sleep through the night. I'm not kidding. When demand was greater than they could handle (creating a waiting time) they should have immediately hired more people.


ZERO excuse. If there is a backlog, they simply need to hire more help to reduce the backlog. The 2 week waiting period (for a the last 6 months) is either a) completely artificial (ie, trying to weed out crappy buggy apps because the impatient dev will find, fix and resubmit during that time) or b) completely irresponsible (why should an app with a critical update, or an important new feature that's ready and tested by the developer and other users wait... and wait... before apple can even look at it?)

Adding an indicator about where in the process it is only shows what I've found all along with my app... the reviewers spend maybe 10 minutes per app. There is no reason there should be a 2 week delay for that.

I love the iPhone I love the opportunity it's created for developers, but I hate the app store review system.

I'm not an iPhone app developer, but this seems nearly pointless. I understood the primary problem with the approval process was a lack of detail or specificity in the rejection notifications. The developers KNOW when their app is in process with Apple and what stage of the review process is really unimportant... the only thing that matters is when it's getting approved or why it's not getting approved.