Whatever rumors you may have heard about App Store approvals recently taking a long time I can confirm that in my case it took almost exactly one week to go from submission to approval. Once you get past the hurdle of preparing all your assets and assuming that you have a bug free and leak free App it seems that Apple is quite quick in approving free Apps. When they've approved it you get sent an email from iTunes Connect saying that your App is "Ready for Sale" and is apparently on the App Store. However, it does seem to take a while for the App Store Search Indexing to figure out your App exists as over the first 24 hours I actually had quite a hard time finding Number Invaders and could only search for it using the company name "eLounge". Now it is coming up properly with a search on "Number Invaders". It's also quick amazing to see how quickly the game gets spread over the internet and it's fun reading comments of others about the game. I've had a couple of feedbacks so far related to the high quality of the graphics but the rather poor quality of the sound. If I could just get my hands on the real thing to record the sound I'll send thru an update with decent sound effects.
Still, it's a real buzz to have finally published a piece of software that is actually used by real people rather then just big corporations and it's a real spur for the next iPhone project (whatever that may be).
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