{"id":19214,"date":"2017-10-13T16:19:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T20:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=19214"},"modified":"2017-10-13T16:19:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T20:19:37","slug":"thoughts-on-yoinks-app-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/13\/thoughts-on-yoinks-app-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Yoink&rsquo;s App Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.eternalstorms.at\/2017\/10\/13\/thoughts-on-app-review\/\">Matthias Gansrigler<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.eternalstorms.at\/2017\/10\/13\/thoughts-on-app-review\/\">\n<p>As some of you may know, getting <a href=\"https:\/\/eternalstorms.at\/yoink\/ios\">Yoink for iOS<\/a> through Apple&rsquo;s App Review was, to say it lightly, a bit of a pain.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I was able to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.eternalstorms.at\/2017\/10\/12\/yoink-for-ipad-and-iphone-now-available-improve-and-simplify-drag-and-drop\/\">release it<\/a>, but a month late. Had this been my first app as an indie developer, there&rsquo;s a good chance I would have had to declare bankruptcy now.<\/p>\n<p>I am fortunate enough to have a couple of apps out already that create a steady income, but still, I spent about two months exclusively on this app, so it&rsquo;s still scary thinking about how I got rejected over and over.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reviewing a submitted app is generally faster now than in the past, but that&rsquo;s not really the right metric. What really matters is the total time from the first submission to when it&rsquo;s available in the store. Imagine if you evaluated customer support based on the speed of the reply without regard to actually solving the problem. Imagine a compiler that would either successfully compile or report a single error.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, it sounds like the rules his app was being rejected for were unwritten.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthias Gansrigler: As some of you may know, getting Yoink for iOS through Apple&rsquo;s App Review was, to say it lightly, a bit of a pain. In the end, I was able to release it, but a month late. Had this been my first app as an indie developer, there&rsquo;s a good chance I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,130,31,1472,26,1433],"class_list":["post-19214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-rejection","tag-ios","tag-ios-11","tag-iosapp","tag-yoink"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19215,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214\/revisions\/19215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}