{"id":6351,"date":"2012-10-09T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T16:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6351"},"modified":"2012-10-09T11:12:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T16:12:48","slug":"mac-app-store-review-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/09\/mac-app-store-review-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac App Store Review Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2012\/10\/08\/wait-times-for-app-store-reviews-reportedly-rising\/\">Mike Schramm<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2012\/10\/08\/wait-times-for-app-store-reviews-reportedly-rising\/\"><p>A developer training firm named Shiny Development has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2012\/10\/08\/average-wait-time-for-mac-app-store-app-reviews-rising-significantly\/\">tracking waiting times for the App Store review process<\/a> as closely as it can, and it has bad news for would-be app developers: The waiting times for the Mac App Store are growing longer. In the last six months or so, the waiting time for getting a Mac App published has gone from under seven days to almost as high as a month, according to Shiny&rsquo;s data. Apple&rsquo;s process is largely closed off&mdash;there is a little bit of information for developers on the main dev Web site, but otherwise Shiny has mostly gathered this information from the various developers it tracks and corresponds with online.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s no wonder that Apple doesn&rsquo;t report the average review time for Mac apps the way it does for iOS ones. And it&rsquo;s scary as a developer to think that you could ship a bug (or have Apple ship an <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/04\/aesendmessage-bug-in-mac-os-x-10-8-2\/\">OS update that introduces one<\/a>). You work as quickly as possible to get a fix ready, and then Apple sits on it for a month&mdash;or longer if you&rsquo;re unlucky enough to have one of the above-average review times. Even after waiting, there&rsquo;s no guarantee that your update will be approved. Recently, Apple has rejected apps for not conforming to new, unwritten requirements, e.g. relating to 1024&#215;1024 icons that no user will really see.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Schramm: A developer training firm named Shiny Development has been tracking waiting times for the App Store review process as closely as it can, and it has bad news for would-be app developers: The waiting times for the Mac App Store are growing longer. In the last six months or so, the waiting time [&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":[38,30,39],"class_list":["post-6351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-mac","tag-macappstore"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351","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=6351"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6355,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351\/revisions\/6355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}