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My app is a simple Truth Table application that reduces boolean algebra http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-US/app/truth-table/9e87b...
Our apps didn't required internet connection, so that might explain the success-rate. So I guess if you want your app in he store as soon as possible, build version 1.0 without internet features.
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>MS has had years to learn about what went wrong with the Apple process, and design around those issues. All that time spent learning about what and why Apple does what they do might have brought them to the conclusion that they ought to be doing the same thing. Or maybe they're "backed up" while they take it all in, figure out what's crap and what's not crap, create a good initial sorting of non-crap -> crap, and th…
"All that time spent learning about what and why Apple does what they do might have brought them to the conclusion that they ought to be doing the same thing." I fear that conclusion. But, really... concluding that courting developers pissed off with an arbitrary opaque process by giving them the same arbitrary opaque process makes sense to ... who? "You have to imagine that they've just suddenly become inundated by…
Unless Microsoft is purposely being opaque with details of why something has failed for the purpose of thwarting malicious or wayward developers, then they should take this as a hint that they need to provide developers with more information so they can track down issues and fix them.
Most of the rejections were due to problems with your app. We have found the Microsoft team and review process to be excellent - far better than anything we have experienced before. They go beyond the call of duty to help developers get their app onto the store and even give some great feedback on how the app could be even better. I guess it depends on who you deal with, but our personal experience in releasing our e…
> Most of the rejections were due to problems with your app Agree, and the article seems to acknowledge this. Seems that the feedback wasn't detailed enough, though. I'd be interested to know if you found the feedback to be better, and theories about the causes of the disparity if that is the case?
I've submitted multiple apps to the Windows Store. They're not desperate and they don't want crap, which is why they have a high bar. The problem is the testing procedures aren't always consistent, so something may pass once and get rejected when you do your next update for a bug that existed in a previous version. But, that's the nature of testing - the same thing has happened for us on Apple's app store. Android ap…
This guy should be able to clean out his own code base and make it up to par with the app stores expectation. They have pretty clear guidelines and he's not meeting them.
Look, if Apple can't manage to do a curated app store in a way that "works" for developers, if Microsoft can't manage to do it... maybe a curated app store isn't a good idea. I mean, it's obviously a good idea for whoever curates the app store (they can leverage their power in all kinds of ways), but perhaps the problems for developers is not because these companies are doing it poorly, but just that injecting a revi…