Some developer say that Apple is slowly getting worse at approving apps for the Mac App Store . Apple , of course , reviews all apps submitted to the store , just as it does with the iOS App Store ; developers are thus at the company ’s mercy when it do to convey their apps — or updates to those apps — available to customers through the Mac App Store .
And if Apple ’s slow up down , developers have little refuge : If you want to betray your apps in the Mac App Store , you run by Apple ’s rule . That ’s why developer implement sandboxing when Apple enjoin they must — there are no other choice . And that ’s why many developers , along with some of their client , arewary about the Mac App Store in oecumenical .
What’s causing the slowdown?
Sources suggested toMacworldthat when Mac App Store approving times first go slow up down , the incrimination fell squarely on iOS 6 and the iPhone 5 . developer rushed to put forward apps that took advantage of the newfangled operating system of rules and the new iPhone ’s taller screen , and Apple opt to reapportion imagination from the Mac App Store favorable reception queue to the iOS queue rather .
In theory , though , the iOS favorable reception rush should be over by now . While some developer are still update their apps with iOS 6 and iPhone 5 compatibility , the days of endless update badges appearing on the App Store seem to be behind us for now . But for some Mac App Store developers , blessing time have n’t yet depict signs of improvement .
The websiteAverage App Store Review Timescollects report from developers who tweet about how long their apps spend in Apple ’s approval queue . Based on nearly 70 reports , the site puts the mean review time at 27 days for the retiring month , and the trend line shows that reviews are slowing down , not speeding up . ( The same site reports the average iOS App Store review time at seven days . )
Developers reassert toMacworldthat they ’re waiting a while for their Mac App Store apps to get okay . Justin Williams of Second Gear Software submittedCommitted 1.0to the store on September 9 ; Apple did n’t approve the GitHub - supervise app until October 5 — that ’s 26 days . Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software submitted an update to his blogging appMarsEdit21 twenty-four hours ago , and he ’s still wait for favourable reception . Christopher Liscio of SuperMegaUltraGroovy has similarly been waiting three week for his appCapoto get O.K. .
One developer who asked not to be nominate wait 28 days between entry and approval for an update to an app we ’ve antecedently named as a Mac Gem . And Gus Mueller of Flying Meat tellsMacworldthat he ’s been look on an approval forAcorn 3.5for 22 days , and on Tuesday decided to unloose the update to direct customers without continuing to await for the Mac App Store version to become available . Numerous other developer confirmed similar wait times toMacworldas well .
As Jalkut pointed out , even if Apple ’s working to make out the Mac App Store revaluation waiting line , that might not be obvious yet . “ I ’m not certain how easy it will be to tell if things are hie up , because so many people ( presumably ) are already in the waiting line at 20 or 30 Clarence Day , ” he spell . “ It may be the variety of thing that require to see the queue scour out to adequately gauge improvement . ”
What Apple says
Jalkut may well be right . But Apple is n’t say .
The notoriously smashed - lipped companionship used to be more public — in its own , dull way of life — about review times for theiOSApp Store . A page available to register iOS developer indicated what pct of fresh apps and app update had been approved in the past X business days ; that X fluctuate a chip .
At last report , Apple say that the Io App Store had approve 89 per centum of fresh app submissions , and 95 percent of submitted app updates , within eight business days . The only problem : While Apple used to update that number daily , it now has n’t been update since July 6 of this year .
And that turn , of course , is only minimally useful . Developers mostly care about how long they — and thus , their customers — must await to get their apps approved . The stale number does n’t help developers at all , and again , Apple ’s never offered a like stat , moth-eaten or otherwise , for Mac App Store developers .
Apple declined to remark toMacworldon the disk .
For now , there ’s nothing anxious developer and their customers can do but look .
