I had an application submitted September 1st. On September 28th it finally got into the review status and on the 4th of October it was accepted. I was somewhat patient but it sure took a long time and made me wondering what other possibilities there are. Well, now at least people seem to like the application.
But due to the liking, I already know that I will submit an update within the next days/weeks. So it's the same story all over again.
The problem with the long review process is not so much a problem of waiting for an app to be approved but to be stuck with development because if finally, the application turns out to be rejected, you need to fix issues in a version which is already outdated because you have created one or two dot-releases in the meantime.
You can however try to submit the next version. But they will not like that. Got a warning once. I tried to submit a non-sandboxed app and got rejected. As I had no interest in spending hours reading all the stuff, I simply ignored the rejection and was working on the next version. Few weeks later I submitted the next version (now with sandboxing) and got a message that this is not intended to be done like that. Got it approved nonetheless. So thanks.
In my opinion, the whole submission process is too cryptic. Not straight-forward at all.
But due to the liking, I already know that I will submit an update within the next days/weeks. So it's the same story all over again.
The problem with the long review process is not so much a problem of waiting for an app to be approved but to be stuck with development because if finally, the application turns out to be rejected, you need to fix issues in a version which is already outdated because you have created one or two dot-releases in the meantime.
You can however try to submit the next version. But they will not like that. Got a warning once. I tried to submit a non-sandboxed app and got rejected. As I had no interest in spending hours reading all the stuff, I simply ignored the rejection and was working on the next version. Few weeks later I submitted the next version (now with sandboxing) and got a message that this is not intended to be done like that. Got it approved nonetheless. So thanks.
In my opinion, the whole submission process is too cryptic. Not straight-forward at all.