“With countless iOS devices being handed out this Christmas, Apple’s App Store is going to see a heck of a lot of business,” Killian Bell reports for Cult of Mac.
“It’s in your best interests, then, if you’re an iOS developer, to have your apps in the App Store and ready for sale before Apple shuts down for the holidays,” Bell reports. “You now have less than 24 hours to submit your app before it’s put on hold until January.”
Bell reports, “Apps submitted for review later than Tuesday, December 20, will have to wait until Apple returns from Christmas vacation in January for approval.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
The sales spike during the Christmas season really is amazing… But it has more to do with Gift Cards being handed out more than devices.
This is misleading. Writers should do their research. App developers not only have to have their apps SUBMITTED by December 21; they have to have them APPROVED by Apple on that date. If not approved by the 21st, they will still be in the queue when iTunes Connect opens again on December 29.
Didn’t you get the memo? Apple is having a “get your App approved in one day sale”!
It’s actually kind of funny to see the outsider’s perception of what creating an App is like. I used to get annoyed with it, but now I just find it funny.
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I know some blogs have lots of people up in arms, but it seems like a non-issue to me. It’s not like they secretly revised the entire operating system last week.
I submitted a rather important update to an app of mine yesterday. Here’s hoping they chug through the backlog of submitted items before calling it quits for a well deserved holiday!
CNN has had two Apple related articles on their homepage for 3 hours. One was about the ITC ruling where Apple partially won their dispute with HTC, and the other with AT&T’s pulling of their bid for T-mobile. Come on guys. Your coverage has become slow and lagging.