The One Day iPhone App Experiment

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Post by llopis » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 11:32 PM UTC

The One Day iPhone App Experiment
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Re: The One Day iPhone App Experiment

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Post by pxlpshr » Wed, Jan 21, 2009, 1:04 AM UTC

Informative post, I can confirm a lot of the same experiences and frustrations except we had a much different experience with timing. It definitely DID NOT take 2 weeks from start to finish for us.

They must have improved the developer approval process and bank contract processing significantly. It took nearly 7 weeks for our bank contracts to get approved, and we used a major int`l bank - Wells Fargo. By the time it was all said and done, our first app took over a month to get on the store.

Re: The One Day iPhone App Experiment

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Post by cmos » Wed, Jan 21, 2009, 10:52 AM UTC

Mine was approved in 2 business days.. It caught us all off guard! It was a free app to control a specific piece of really expensive hardware ($5k-10k whole house audio systems) so that might have made it easier.

What was odd is that the app doesn't do anything without the hardware, and there was nowhere to provide additional testing information, so as far as I can tell they didn't really use it. Perhaps they just scan the binary (or source?) for bad things.

Re: The One Day iPhone App Experiment

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Post by bemmu » Wed, Jan 21, 2009, 2:30 PM UTC

"a sales update for those of you curious about it: In the first three days, Tea Time! sold 83 units."

Re: The One Day iPhone App Experiment

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Post by pxlpshr » Wed, Jan 21, 2009, 3:25 PM UTC

cmos wrote: post #3

Mine was approved in 2 business days.. It caught us all off guard! It was a free app to control a specific piece of really expensive hardware ($5k-10k whole house audio systems) so that might have made it easier. What was odd is that the app doesn't do anything without the hardware, and there was nowhere to provide additional testing information, so as far as I can tell they didn't really use it. Perhaps they just sc…

That's just a load of crock... we had an app rejected 3 times for very, very, very tiny UI inconsistencies. I look at the AppStore and it amazes me what gets through.

Re: The One Day iPhone App Experiment

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Post by llopis » Wed, Jan 21, 2009, 10:32 PM UTC

bemmu wrote: post #4

"a sales update for those of you curious about it: In the first three days, Tea Time! sold 83 units."

And a week and a half after release, it's up to 150 units. I guess that's more or less what I would expect of a niche app that was thrown in the App Store without any marketing.