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Originally Posted by DaleDe
On the plus side they encourage updates and fixes to apps and are very good at distributing the fixes.
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I agree that they do encourage updates and fixes to apps, however there is a bottleneck in the distribution of critical updates. If a version of an app is released with a critical bug, even if you fix it within the hour of finding it out, it will still take about 4-5 days to get approved and released. This can cause irreparable damage to the reputation of an app. You can request an expedited review but you only get one (max two) of those a year. This problem is known to happen even to major software developers with massive resources.
What's upsetting is that apps from a few major vendors get critical updates approved sometimes within the hour. As a developer, I'd gladly pay for this privilege. Whenever I release a new version of Marvin, I always find myself in a panic for the first few hours irrespective of the effort that has been put in internal and beta testing (a lot).