Informative post, I can confirm a lot of the same experiences and frustrations except we had a much different experience with timing. It definitely DID NOT take 2 weeks from start to finish for us.
They must have improved the developer approval process and bank contract processing significantly. It took nearly 7 weeks for our bank contracts to get approved, and we used a major int`l bank - Wells Fargo. By the time it was all said and done, our first app took over a month to get on the store.
Mine was approved in 2 business days.. It caught us all off guard! It was a free app to control a specific piece of really expensive hardware ($5k-10k whole house audio systems) so that might have made it easier.
What was odd is that the app doesn't do anything without the hardware, and there was nowhere to provide additional testing information, so as far as I can tell they didn't really use it. Perhaps they just scan the binary (or source?) for bad things.
That's just a load of crock... we had an app rejected 3 times for very, very, very tiny UI inconsistencies. I look at the AppStore and it amazes me what gets through.
And a week and a half after release, it's up to 150 units. I guess that's more or less what I would expect of a niche app that was thrown in the App Store without any marketing.
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 27.0 ms ] threadThey must have improved the developer approval process and bank contract processing significantly. It took nearly 7 weeks for our bank contracts to get approved, and we used a major int`l bank - Wells Fargo. By the time it was all said and done, our first app took over a month to get on the store.
What was odd is that the app doesn't do anything without the hardware, and there was nowhere to provide additional testing information, so as far as I can tell they didn't really use it. Perhaps they just scan the binary (or source?) for bad things.