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Re: Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch

#31

This is also happening to our app, Gaia GPS, and it's pretty much ruining my holiday. It seemed to effect US users around noon PDT, and then a batch of international users around 5 pm PDT.

Not part of this, but I have experienced in the past sporadic download corruptions with users. I've never figured out the exact cause, but a reinstall has always solved it. It's been roughly 10-15 users out of 25000 or so purchases. My best guess is that some part of the distribution pipeline does not fully validate the app package and re-download it if it fails.

I've seen download corruption effecting apps from the Mac App Store.

Re: Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch

#33

One of my apps went into "In Review" status at midnight (19 hours ago) and still hasn't been rejected or approved. The rejection or approval has always happened in less than 12 hours for me, so it seems like Apple might be holding all approvals until they've resolved this issue. At least, I hope that's the case... I really feel for the developers who got a slew of one-star reviews because of this.

I've had apps "In Review" for a couple days.

Months here.

Re: Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch

#34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not part of this, but I have experienced in the past sporadic download corruptions with users. I've never figured out the exact cause, but a reinstall has always solved it. It's been roughly 10-15 users out of 25000 or so purchases. My best guess is that some part of the distribution pipeline does not fully validate the app package and re-download it if it fails.

I've seen download corruption effecting apps from the Mac App Store.

This is a tough one, but I think that should be affecting.

Re: Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch

#35

I have two waiting-for-review updates that have been sitting in the queue for 9 days now. This seems much longer than my past experience of 2-4 days turn-around. I wonder if these delays are related to the corrupt updates issue.

another source for submission times http://reviewtimes.shinydevelopment.com/

Re: Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch

#36

Any developers know how to change an app update that is "Waiting for Review" from "Automatically Release" to "Hold for Developer Release?"

Just reject the binary -- better to wait a week for the update than to be in this situation.

I think you are right. Was just browsing the app store and seeing a number of apps getting 1-star reviews because of recent updates.

Re: Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch

#37

Any developers know how to change an app update that is "Waiting for Review" from "Automatically Release" to "Hold for Developer Release?"

Just reject the binary -- better to wait a week for the update than to be in this situation.

My update has been "waiting for review" for a week. I'm going to just let it proceed. When the update goes live I'll test it and if it's corrupted I'll just remove it from sale. Hopefully this will prevent users from updating. Then I'll email support and wait until the issue is resolved.

Re: Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch

#39

I have two waiting-for-review updates that have been sitting in the queue for 9 days now. This seems much longer than my past experience of 2-4 days turn-around. I wonder if these delays are related to the corrupt updates issue.

Updates to my main app usually took between 3-5 days. The last update took 28 days. (just released one week ago)

Re: Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch

#40
I noticed something even odder when I was updating Instapaper from 4.2.2 to 4.2.3 on my iPad 2, iOS 6 beta 2 yesterday: Instapaper is about 25 megabytes, and I'm on a desperately slow network. It should've ended in no less than 5 minutes, but it just took over 15 seconds.

I'm certain that I'm on iOS 6 ( :D ), and I'm certain that I updated Instapaper (4.2.2 crashed on lunch in iOS 6, that's why he sent out 4.2.3 and now I can open Instapaper), and that my network is slow and it shouldn't have taken less than 5 minutes. So, what's the story? To my knowledge, delta updates are still not available to iOS apps for some reason. And I couldn't find anything about them in devforums/iOS 6 docs/WWDC sessions.

So, could it be relevant? Maybe they were testing delta updates by mistake and some apps got burned?

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