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apple.com - 21 days ago

Apple Announces Over 100,000 Apps Now Available on the App Store

— apple.com — CUPERTINO, California November 4, 2009 Apple today announced that developers have created over 100,000 apps for the... revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. iPhone and iPod touch customers in 77 countries can choose from ... (more) Apple Announces Over 100,000 Apps Now Available on the ...

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wired.com - 14 days ago

Apple App Store Takes One Tiny Step Toward Transparency

— wired.com — Taking a small step toward openness, Apple is rolling out a brand new way for iPhone developers... to track the status of apps they’ve submitted to the App Store. While it may not sound like much, the move gives iPhone developers reason to ... (more) Apple App Store Takes One Tiny Step Toward Transparency

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macworld.com - 14 days ago

External Link: Macworld Suffers App Store Approval "Process"

— macworld.com — Our friends at Macworld found themselves deep in the surreal world of Apple's App Store approval process... - if it can be called that - during their attempt to publish an iPhone app version of their "Macworld iPhone & iPod touch Superguide" ebook. Once again, negative publicity turned out to be ... (more) External Link: Macworld Suffers App Store Approval "Process"

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"Macworld Editor-in-Chief Jason Snell just had his iPhone book rejected... for using the word "iPhone" in the title" http://bit.ly/2XMqMN 2 days ago

Apple rejects iPhone book cos it contains da wrd 'iPhone'...and then reverses its stance: http://tinyurl.com/ygqgofz 17 days ago

Reading: Apple rejects Macworld iPhone Superguide from App Store... for using the word 'iPhone' ( http://bit.ly/2pKaAw ) 17 days ago

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App Store Needs to Change the ‘When the Shit Hits the Fan’ Approach to Review Process
Just Another iPhone Blog — ... and Engadget .  And then, following that coverage … hey presto, the issue gets almost immediately resolved.  Apple reverses earlier decisions by their reviewers and maybe they think all is good at that point. But it’s not at all.  It’s the whole process that has huge issues – these one-off ‘interventions’ (a few of them with Phil Schiller even getting in the mix recently) wouldn’t be needed if the system wasn’t so perfectly setup for producing inconsistent and ridiculous decisions. Jason Snell has a great post up at Macworld, detailing the ‘story behind the story’ on the ...

Apple lets devs bite their nails in real time as iPhone apps navigate approval process
Engadget Mobile — ... Apple's App Store approval process is one of the great black boxes in the mobile industry, a bizarre place ruled by emotion, erratic logic, and an uneven application of censorship that has driven some developers to the very brink of insanity since the day of iPhone OS 2.0's release. Well, folks, here's the bone just thrown your way from Cupertino: a new dashboard where you can watch closely as your pride and joy makes its way through the bureaucratic assembly line. Before, all you could do was submit, pray, and wait indefinitely for your app to get accepted or ...