Apple adds queue time, contact info to iPhone developer pages
Small steps: reports from several iPhone developers indicate that Apple has showcased two key features on the Dev Center website that may improve the mood and attitude of anxious app submitters. Feature #1 is a queue status graphic (seen here), letting everyone know how long the approval wait should be -- like the line signs at Walt Disney World, only far geekier.
Feature #2 is the presence of a new 'all issues' escalation email address, so developers with urgent bug fixes that need to be prioritized can get their questions answered -- something that the Iconfactory's Craig Hockenberry specifically asked for in his wrapup of the 1st-anniversary state of the store. This email channel has apparently been open for a week or two, but is now being publicized on the front page.
Several other tips & suggestions posts have also been updated in the past 24 hours, including notes on the keywording/tagging options and walkthroughs on changing your app name and assigning/adjusting the app's rating. If you're a registered developer, swing over to the Dev Center and take a look.
[via the delightful Nik Fletcher]
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This email channel has apparently been open for a week or two, but is now being publicized on the front page
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Yeah, and apps like Google Voice are being rejected where as Moron Test becomes the best seller!
what a joke
a fake timetable to distract and a "new" email contact that is the exact same one that has been used for appreview submission for over one year, hardly anything new...
it is also the contact channel developers most complain about regarding lack of feedback...
Some developers know how lucky they are that the iPhone and the iTunes App Store even exist. Some developers will bitch and moan no matter what happens. And some developers are somewhere in the middle. That's life.
Apple sure as hell isn't perfect. But what is? Nothing! Nowhere! Nohow! So by all means let the developers keep putting pressure on Apple to be more responsive and more forthcoming. But stop yer bellyaching, will ya?
There's no such thing as 'too late'.
Too late is a mass migration from the (cr)AppStore and Apple filing for bankruptcy.
That's not going to stop me, neither should it stop anyone from slagging on Apple or ATT when they pull the crap they've been pulling.
Something had to change. The entire affair is a train wreck and heads should roll.
As in, 'you screwed up so bad you'll never work in this town again' bad.
It still means hundreds and hundreds of applications take more than 2 weeks between when they are submitted and when the developer gets any notification of either approval or rejection. It's still an open-ended, no feedback until the very end, opaque, process.
And just having an 'escalation' email address is meaningless unless the response you get from that email address actually results in either receiving useful information OR your app being accepted. If it's just for queue-jumping (quick, I need my app approved because of a stupid error), it's not impressive at all.
too little. too late.
August 01 2009 at 2:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIt's not too late. Just too little.
I think this whole Google voice mess, may be a good thing. With all the bad press they've been getting, plus the FCC intervention, Apple may actually do something to improve things.
Wow. I'm impressed; the FCC e-mail spurned this frenzy of change, whereas a year of angry consumers couldn't move a pebble. It's about time.
August 01 2009 at 1:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThese changes were most likely in progress way before the FCC letter. It takes more than 18 hours to dream up, code, test, and push things live, especially in a corp environment.
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