Updates, updates

Today is the 24th day since I sent Run Mate 1.1 to Apple for approval. It’s still not pub­lished, obvi­ously. I asked Apple, they told me it’s “tak­ing unex­pected addi­tional time for review”, will let me know when sta­tus updates etc. What­ever that means, I can only wait.

In the mean­time I have com­pleted the fea­ture set of the 1.2 ver­sion and I’m tweak­ing the UI, not really sat­is­fied with what I have now — too clut­tered, too easy to make a mis­take and change you might regret as user of the appli­ca­tion. That’s all gen­eral reg­u­lar work.

Main issue I have is that endur­ing this long wait times is really hard and dis­cour­ag­ing. I can’t pos­si­bly send 1.2 for approval until 1.1 is live. Then I need to wait at least few weeks after 1.1 is live, in case there’re bugs and issues I missed, so I can include them in 1.2. And that means that any­one actu­ally hav­ing issues could poten­tially wait over a month for a fix — unless he/she con­tacts me and I give him ad-hoc build to install (this is an option, please con­tact me if you have seri­ous prob­lems run­ning the app).

So, I have not for­got­ten you nor aban­doned the app. Things are largely out of my con­trol here and can only fur­ther test my patience with the App Store.
Hop­ing for good news in the fol­low­ing days…

Update: 1.1 is approved on 30th day. Feed­back more than welcome