Insight VR

Several weeks ago John Gruber linked to a web comic about app rejections and made a joke of his own about the efficiency of the App Store. My experience is that after the iTunesConnect site went down for maintenance and a holiday break on December 23, 2009 and came back up on December 28 things have been considerably more efficient. My game was submitted just before the site shut down on the 23rd. I have no idea if they were working over Christmas and the weekend while the site was off, but the game was approved shortly after it came back up on the 28th. The first update was approved in four days. The second update was submitted at about 4 pm today. Email notifying me that it was approved arrived at 8:19 pm.

I have no idea if this is unusual or not or if it is a result of changes implemented recently. I for one am happy with the results. In any case, after the amazing amount of criticism that has been directed at the approval process over the last 18 months, it seems only reasonable to point out when they’re doing something right.