IPhone Dev Spends $500k on Development, Still Not Approved by Apple

Re:IPhone Dev Spends $500k on Development, Still Not Approve... by lux on Thursday December 18, 2008 @10:02PM (#402952)

While this is a LONG time and definitely Apple needs to improve their support of developers with at least a status message of some kind, it could be that the app is complex enough that it's taking a long time due to that complexity. Apple does review all the code and test it out, so maybe that has something to do with it.

Either way, Apple needs to start communicating! It must be awful for these guys to wait like this not knowing one way or the other, and with that much riding on it. Wow.

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Re:IPhone Dev Spends $500k on Development, Still Not Approve... by boucher on Friday December 19, 2008 @12:36AM (#403073)

Thing is, Apple doesn't review code. They review applications (which isn't the same thing).

More importantly, the review process is arbitrary. There are no strict guidelines, and no strict technical analysis is performed. This is easily proven by looking at the number of apps on the store using private SDKs, and the number of cases where apps have been rejected for using private SDKs even when they do not.

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Re:IPhone Dev Spends $500k on Development, Still Not Approve... by lux on Friday December 19, 2008 @12:31PM (#403553)

I didn't know that. I guess I got the impression from some peoples' comments on the web that they did... Thanks for the clarification :)

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