Curious – unlike last week, there wasn’t a single update to the AppStore this Sunday or so far Monday morning. This might provide us with a bit of insight into Apple’s operating procedures – assuming application updates and additions resume again tonight, it’s quite consistent with a review team that works Monday through Friday, with applications approved that day either going live the same day or early the next morning.
A little more than a week in, the pace of new and updated application approval is one of the biggest causes of developer dissatisfaction – there seems to be no way to predict how long the process will take, since there’s no consistency from application to application. We’re all hoping that Apple both streamlines this process and provides developers with a clear indication of how long the process will take – based on their responsiveness to developer complaints over the past week, I can’t imagine improvements aren’t coming.
For those keeping score at home, there’s currently 877 applications in the AppStore, 665 (76%) paid, 212 (24%) free. Finally, in response to community requests, we’ve removed the ‘Books’ category from our regular applications feeds and added an RSS feed solely for them – if you’re a bibliophile like me, you can subscribe to it here.
Updates certainly don’t seem to be happening at any kind of pace. We submitted an update to our app over a week ago and it still hasn’t gone live. This after our original submission was approved in a little over 12 hours.
Go figure.
only 9 updates / new apps today.. over 30 yesterday.
strange.
Greg,
I really want to thank PinchMedia for providing this almost real-time stats for my app. Without this, I would have been completely ignorant about how my app is performing.
Just one clarification. Do you decide unique users based on the UDID of the device? I hope your numbers and Apple’s numbers will match.
Thanks again.
Hi Ramani,
Thanks for the kind words, we love hearing back from developers utilizing our products whether it’s criticism or praise. As far as the unique users metric goes, we do indeed calculate it based off of the device’s unique identifier supplied through the iPhone SDK. Glad you enjoy our library and do let us know how we matched up against Apple’s numbers!
Jesse,
Please add a Remember me option so that I don’t have to login each time I want to check stats. You can require re-login once every two weeks like Google.