Aral Balkan

"Twitter’s lists are a fascinating new feature, and people are using them in a bewildering variety of ways. I think one of the most unexpected effects they’ve had, though, has been the exposure of yet another problem with Apple’s App Store approval process: it’s just not agile enough.

Say I was selling a Twitter client on the App Store. In an ideal world (read: the web), the primary bottleneck to delivering a new version of the product is the development time – Twitter releases lists, I burn the midnight oil a bit to incorporate them into my app, and I’m done.

When you’re developing for the iPhone, however, the main bottleneck isn’t the development time, but the approval process."

(via http://twitter.com/dalmaer/status/5962862118)

"With Apple now using some kind of static analysis tool to analyse applications submitted for App Store review, it’s had me thinking: why not let us test with it prior to submission - or have iTunes Connect immediately analyse upon uploading a binary? With it widely commented that the first 8 days of any review are to encourage developer self-moderation and bug discovery, the notion that developers have to wait 8 days for an automated process to run is - quite frankly - ridiculous."