{"id":35457,"date":"2022-04-05T14:58:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T18:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35457"},"modified":"2023-12-06T14:21:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T19:21:24","slug":"apple-sitting-on-applications-and-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/05\/apple-sitting-on-applications-and-requests\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Sitting on Applications and Requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrismlacy\/status\/1509715088319856640\">Chris Lacy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrismlacy\/status\/1509715088319856640\">\n<p>An overlooked point regarding Apple&rsquo;s stranglehold over iOS developers &amp; their apps is Apple&rsquo;s one-sided power in approving developers.<\/p>\n<p>My company submitted a developer application in Nov &rsquo;21. 140+ days later &amp; the enrollment is still &ldquo;being processed&rdquo;, with no updates provided.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Phone calls were not helpful, but a few days after tweeting his application was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrismlacy\/status\/1510766905149497345\">accepted<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rustyshelf\/status\/1509719656013381636\">Russell Ivanovic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rustyshelf\/status\/1509719656013381636\">\n<p>I submitted an application for their small business program for my personal account. 3 times. Zero response. It&rsquo;s been a year now and they still charge me 30% instead of 15%<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matt_cox\/status\/1509899933943541811\">Matt Cox<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matt_cox\/status\/1509899933943541811\">\n<p>Yep. I&rsquo;m in this boat as well. Literally zero idea what&rsquo;s going on.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/16\/the-asymmetry-of-app-review\/\">The Asymmetry of App Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/31\/getting-feedback-to-apple\/\">Getting Feedback to Apple<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/03\/enrolling-in-the-app-store-small-business-program\/\">Enrolling in the App Store Small Business Program<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/23\/requesting-entitlements-still-broken\/\">Requesting Entitlements, Still Broken<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/05\/requesting-entitlements\/\">Requesting Entitlements<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/12\/no-one-minding-the-store\/\">No One Minding the Store<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/11\/media-release-or-bug-report\/\">Media Release or Bug Report?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Lacy: An overlooked point regarding Apple&rsquo;s stranglehold over iOS developers &amp; their apps is Apple&rsquo;s one-sided power in approving developers. My company submitted a developer application in Nov &rsquo;21. 140+ days later &amp; the enrollment is still &ldquo;being processed&rdquo;, with no updates provided. Phone calls were not helpful, but a few days after tweeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-04-05T18:59:02Z","apple_news_api_id":"ada1fc91-bd44-4847-8c55-c367f7c344eb","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-12-06T19:21:27Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AraH8kb1ESEeMVcNn98NE6w","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":[91,101,2518,31,2078,30,39,2077],"class_list":["post-35457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-business","tag-entitlements","tag-ios","tag-ios-15","tag-mac","tag-macappstore","tag-macos-12"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35457","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=35457"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36754,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35457\/revisions\/36754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}