5. Uproar’s latest work, and high profile developers leaving the iPhone at Uproar Blog

In episode 5, Kevin and Rick talk about a pair of karaoke apps they created for Lakeshore Records and the movie Fame. Then they chime in with their take on the recent news surrounding high profile developers discontinuing iPhone development. Finally, they discuss the merits of Apple’s recent new features in the app submission process.

Links mentioned during this episode

http://bit.ly/famefloor – Fame: Get on the Floor

http://bit.ly/fametry – Fame: Try

http://twitter.com/joehewitt/status/5631765190 – Joe Hewitt Tweet 1

http://twitter.com/joehewitt/status/5645649654 – Joe Hewitt Tweet 2

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/11/joe-hewitt-developer-of-facebooks-massively-popular-iphone-app-quits-the-project/ – Techcrunch on Joe Hewitt

http://github.com/facebook/three20 – Three20 project

http://rogueamoeba.com/ – Rogue Amoeba

http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/ – Airfoil

http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/speakers.php – Airfoil Speakers

http://www.lala.com/ – Lala

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/utm/2009/11/13/airfoil-speakers-touch-1-0-1-finally-ships/ – Rogue Amoeba’s blog post re: rejection

http://www.eff.org/ – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2009/11/rogue-amoeba.html – Jeff LaMarche post 1

http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2009/11/some-more-thoughts-on-airfoil-situation.html – Jeff LaMarche post 2

http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2009/11/my-last-word-on-rogue-amoeba.html – Jeff LaMarche post 3

http://daringfireball.net/2009/11/airfoil_touch_situation – Daring Fireball on Rogue Amoeba

http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/2009/11/09/apple-rejects-my-caricature-app/ – Caricature app rejection

http://www.evernote.com/ – Evernote

http://culturedcode.com/things/ – Things

http://www.tuaw.com/2009/11/14/apple-rejects-unity-games-on-the-app-store/ – Unity games rejected for phone number access

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/11/apple-iphone-app/ – Submission status

http://www.tuaw.com/2009/08/01/apple-adds-queue-time-contact-info-to-iphone-developer-pages/ – Submission queue times

http://bit.ly/gaystars – Oh My Gay Stars

The music for this podcast, used by permission, is by Pretty Lights (intro) and Avi Ghosh (outro). The transition music is from Nine Inch Nail’s Ghosts I-IV album, a Creative Commons 3 licensed work.

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November 16th, 2009 at 9:21 pm

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Hi guys
You said on the show that you don’t know how could an app be in the “In review” status for more than few hours. Well:

http://codeaplus.com/wpa/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/runmate-1.2.status-history.png

I hate to be in such minority.

Aleksandar

23 Nov 09 at 4:37 am
@Aleksandar

Yes, there are definitely cases like yours where Apple calls the app “in review” for an extended period of time. Sorry to hear you are in that minority.

The point we were trying to make is that the current statuses today still don’t tell us much – which is ultimately when can I expect my app to be actually reviewed and approved?

According to Apple[1], they review 8,500 apps a week across “more than 40 full time trained reviewers”. Let’s say they are working 7 days a week — that is 1,214 apps a day that need to be approved. If there are 40 reviewers, each reviewer must review 30 apps a day. Assuming each reviewer works 8 hrs a day, that leaves them with just 16 minutes to review an app.

So, it is clear the “in review” status doesn’t really mean Apple is actively reviewing your app. Given the vast number of apps that need to be approved, the “in review” time for the vast majority of apps must be very small.

I hope your app gets approved soon. I’ve been there before with the waiting game and it stinks.

[1] http://www.apple.com/hotnews/apple-answers-fcc-questions/

kevin

23 Nov 09 at 7:26 am
Hey guys. Thought I’d chime in. My app has been “In Review” for about four days so far.

I agree with you. The reviewer hasn’t been looking at the app that whole time. There’s some in-app purchasing to look over. Maybe that’s making my “In Review” state longer.

I’m enjoying the podcast. Keep it up!

otto

8 Dec 09 at 12:40 pm