The Apple Double-Standard on App Approvals – updated
Thursday, August 19 – The EpicWin iPhone application was released to the Apple App store. EpicWin is a great to-do list application (with an RPG twist) but like most new apps it was not without a few minor bugs.
Friday, August 20 – Early this morning the EpicWin team declared on Facebook that the bugs had been fixed and the app had been sent to Apple for approval.
Monday, August 23 – No EpicWin app approval.
Tuesday, August 24 – No EpicWin app approval.
Wednesday, August 25 – No EpicWin app approval.
Thursday, August 26 – No EpicWin app approval. App APPROVED this evening! (finally…)
On the other hand…
Thursday, August 19 – Facebook released v3.2.0 of it’s iPhone application complete with Places integration for US users (booo!).
Friday, August 20 – An update, Facebook v3.2.1 is available for download, not a bad turnaround presuming the build was submitted after 19th August.
Monday, August 23 – Yet another Facebook update, this time build v3.2.2!
EpicWin = small developer, 1 release, 0 updates in 3 business days.
Facebook = big developer, 1 release, 2 updates in 3 business days.
Funny things going on over there….