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A new strategy from Apple?

December 3rd, 2009 0

SongBook hasn’t been rejected in a review for a very long time, in fact there was only the first release and then one other that did get rejected, and the second set of rejections were based on misunderstandings on Apples part, so rejections have been very rare. SongBook has been out for about a year now.

With the latest release though we got an interesting e-mail. It informed us that SongBook was violating the Apple guidelines, and was quite correct in what was stated, but the interesting part was that we were not rejected, we were asked to make an improvement for the next release. A few hours later the update was accepted. That’s a huge change in attitude from the old process where rejections could happen for any small reason.

For those that are interested the issue that was identified was that when SongBook wakes from sleep with no network present it doesn’t respond until a network is available. This was deliberate, but of course feedback in the form of a message informing the user what is happening would be useful. We will be adding this for the next release. Apple does thoroughly test apps when they are in review, it continually surprises me how much effort they do put in.

What this means is that the new version of SongBook is now out, with the old process we would have been rejected, and would have had to wait another two weeks for a new submission to be accepted.

This is a huge improvement and is really appreciated.

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