AMBER Alert appmaker not happy with submission process

Fart apps, and amber alert apps: I believe nobody, including apple, would dispute that Amber Alert apps would be more of a necessity, than the nonsensical fart app.

But because the Amber Alert one is more important and serious business, it might need more attention in the approval process and a complex design. On the developers half, how much ability and ease of report does it take, on the other hand doing the best to prevent accidental or prank reports. I'm sure there were some meetings or some debates within apple, because with a app like this, things are much more fragile, relating to use and law.

How apple runs its business is not my business, as far as approval process or not. but it seems that with fart machines, things are much more simpler and therefore faster in the process.

Um, I like you, TUAW, but you are one of the major guilty partners who has repeated every developer's whine about the approval process, even when the decisions being criticised were the right decisions or at least understandable mistakes. I think you should be more accurate if you are going to report every single developer's whine, and at least point out that a few mistakes among tens of thousands of correct decisions, is a very low error rate!

The question could be asked of the developer. Why did it take so long to write such a simple app? I don't disagree that the approval process is not the greatest but news flash to everyone, Google have the same issues.

I agree that this is an important app but the fact that the developer is whining his way in is making me questioning his real intention. It makes me sick to see this.

Here's the thing. I was put off by the tone of the "open letter" -- it implied that THIS app should get priority because it is SO IMPORTANT and will SAVE CHILDREN.

But there's another side to it. You should understand that he wasn't complaining merely about not getting special treatment -- his app was delayed, it was NOT just sitting in a first-in, first-out queue. I submitted my app after he did, and it was approved on Day 5 (today). It looks like his was approved today as well. So, somehow, I submitted mine weeks after he did, and got ahead of him in the line.

The App Store submission process has problems. This just wasn't the best way to complain about them.

I think his main problem is that his approach seems to have required cooperation and help from a lot of different people who will have wasted their time if this app doesn't get released. These people probably pulled a lot of strings after being sold on his idea. They took the time to train their call centers to handle this. That sounds like a serious commitment to this app. So the developer promised them this tool and can't deliver because it's all in Apple's hands.

So for me, the real question is, how feasible is it to develop an app store app if the application involves many people other than yourself to set up the environment needed for the app to function if there is the possibility that the app might never be approved.

But if you don't have the framework in place then you can't test your app. If it can't be tested it won't make it into the app store. So you have to have the framework in place to test it leaving you in a catch-22 situation.

Amber Alerts are idiotic! Apple should reject this app.

He should quit moaning and make it a web app. Take out the GPS element and there's absolutely no need to run it natively.

It's Apple's App store.

If you aren't happy with their current apps, you don't deserve to own an iPhone. Take it back to at&t now.

If Apple does nor have any approval method, think of how many malicious app would be there today.

Think of app store as part of music store

if only iPhone users had some other way to contact the authorities. Maybe some kind of device that would let them talk to the police remotely from far away. Naw that would just be too complex!

Well, if you people are this dissatisfied with the App Store and the iPhone the easiest way to send Apple a message is to vote with your dollars, sell your iPhone, cancel your AT&T service, and never buy another Apple Product ever again.

It seriously blows my mind that people are still complaining about this. Did any one of you seriously drop the cash on the iPhone and associated two year AT&T agreement without doing a modicum of research to discover the iPhone is a closed platform that Apple is very protective of?

Whining on blogs doesn't accomplish much.