Yea but the original Pebble app has a review pending for 43 days...if I were Pebble I'd be freaking if it looked like they might need to wait a month and a half for approval.
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Pebble Time iOS App in Limbo, Pebble Asks Customers for Help
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Yea but the original Pebble app has a review pending for 43 days...if I were Pebble I'd be freaking if it looked like they might need to wait a month and a half for approval.
Yep. My Pebble time has been sitting unusable on my desk for 2 days now. Very annoying
This is nothing unusual, and was completely preventable by Pebble. On May 18th, when the app was "Pending Developer Release", Pebble should have released it. Then, Pebble should have submitted a patch version. This would have the earlier version already on the store while waiting for the patch (which, as others have pointed out, is entirely within review averages and my own experience).
Trying to pin this one on Apple really makes Pebble look bad.
Trying to pin this one on Apple really makes Pebble look bad.
Walled garden
... which is why Androids are hacked constantly, and iPhones are not.
That's one butt-ugly watch. On the other hand, the displays are pretty ugly too...
Having launched an app earlier this year and having dealt with the same thing, I commiserate with Pebble here. Sometimes multiple days pass with no notice from Apple regarding anything positive or negative, then out of the blue, they decline the submission on random (sometimes ridiculous) grounds.
For instance - ours was stopped from approval at one point because we mentioned in the app description that it was available for iOS and Android, and Apple said nope due to the mention of Android. It had nothing to do with the functionality of the app itself, but in the description wording. It took a week for them to decline it for that.
Ours is coming along nicely, by the way - you can download it free here for whichever device you use: http://www.divessi.com/app
For instance - ours was stopped from approval at one point because we mentioned in the app description that it was available for iOS and Android, and Apple said nope due to the mention of Android. It had nothing to do with the functionality of the app itself, but in the description wording. It took a week for them to decline it for that.
Ours is coming along nicely, by the way - you can download it free here for whichever device you use: http://www.divessi.com/app
And pebble watch is clearly not one of them. Not sure what your point is though in the context of this thread.
Agreed. I never actually saw the Pebble watch until today when I went to their website. The UI looks like Mac OS 9 from the late 90's. Very low-end looking UI design like when computers first entered the market. Poorly designed graphics. Very disappointing.
I read that often that those "ridiculous" grounds are like mentioning Android in the description
But what is so difficult to read the page Apple gives you what is allowed in the description, how to spell apple products and how to write them correctly? There is a page you are expected to read before submitting it and if you do everything like the regulations want it, it will be fine to go through
Take a look closely at the image they posted. They submitted the app previously for review and it was APPROVED on May 18th ("Pending Developer Release"). However for whatever reason they decided to self reject it on May 22nd ("Developer Rejected"). Apple ALREADY APPROVED the app and Pebble DECIDED to self reject it. Their review is taking an average amount of time. Sometimes these problems really are Apples, but this is Pebble trying to make noise off a problem they created.
You should take a little time and go read the App Store submission guidelines. They're public, and short.
Specifically, section 3.1:
and also the preamble:
Just pointing out May 25 was also the Memorial Day holiday. If Apple gave their employees the day off, this would decrease the amount of business days available to review applications.
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i have over 10 apps on the app store and have been doing this for five years. update approval time has always been 1-3 weeks. rarely does approval ever take less than 2 weeks. this is bad planning on pebble's part and a dumb move on their part to be trying to blame apple. wouldn't be surprised to see it delay out to 4 weeks or apple find something to reject it for to get revenge lol. be nice to the hand that feeds you!
You all are quick to knock Pebble but it's a little obvious what's going on here. There's no excuse for the original pebble app being in review for 40+ days.
You make it sound like competition and supplying jobs is a bad thing. Be funny if someone clicked a mouse and eliminated your job, wouldn't it?
Etical practices? No, we better take care of the environment, we can't do everything.
Nah, they can just run another kickstarter campaign for a few million. You know, kickstarter, where start ups and not million dollar companies who want to dump stock...oh wait...
Don't confuse the Pebble Time iOS app with the 43 day "in review" period of the original Pebble iOS App update. Pebble's being a little deceptive, grasping at straws, and being presumptuous in order to rally their faithful.
And I say this as someone currently wearing a Pebble Steel.
And I say this as someone currently wearing a Pebble Steel.
I've always wondered what happens to hardware that depends on an iOS app when Apple decides to pull/not approve the app... It's a weird situation, because people bought a product and there's no guarantee that the iOS app it depends on will ever be available.
Who would want this junky, toy looking thing anyway? Looks like one of those cheap 90's games you wore on your wrist.
I agree. They're whining. And soliciting a mass number of Apple's own customers to contact Apple as a means of speeding up the app approval is almost surely going to backfire in the long run. They'd have been better off to delay the watch shipments that let them get to backers and have no app to activate them.