Apple adds submission histories to iTunes Connect

The reason you don't see any status history link is because you need to make some change to the apps in your list. Changing the price or editing the description on my apps had the result of adding the Status History link for them.

Yet another completely arbitrary 'update' to the review process. Every single 'update' as of late has not told us or provided us with any information we did not already have.

Purely cosmetic. These are a procrastinator's type of fixes.

Completely unrelatedly, I am LOVING the Droid ad. Really quite a nice addition to TUAW.

I think I know why you aren't seeing it for your apps yet. It only appeared for one of my apps when I submitted an update yesterday, and that was the first release in the history. So it will appear when you start submitting/updating but they don't have your previous history. It only starts recording now (from what I can see on my account).

there is new 'Updated' note in AppStore product description, instead of 'Release date'. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=310737309&mt=8

http://twitter.com/edlea/status/5483707292

So, you now are told when your app is assigned to a reviewer? And you call that progress?

If this is the speed that Apple will improve the whole app store approval process, it should be largely fixed in say, 2 or 3 centuries. They still have nonsensical rejections that continue to get them more and more negative publicity, and all Apple seems to come up with in response are largely cosmetic (just more lipstick on a pig).

It always amazes me how much thought and time has gone into the iTunes Store relative to how little goes into iTunes Connect.

Its like a sad little Orphan that just barely gets the job done.

In terms of reporting tools, it doesn't even really get the job done.

It means that you don't read your tuaw mail quickly enough. I sent this tip in early yesterday.