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Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free

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  1. BatteryMountain · · focus · HN ↗
    App release reviews take at least 1 week now. They take 15% of revenue and I had to pay $25 to create an account. And I'm sure I spent more hours on setting up my business + bank account, dun's number, google account creation & verification, app listing configuration/verification and only then getting to the review stage. My first round took exactly 1 month from having a signed app release on my laptop ready to go to it showing publicly on the store.
    1. moomoo11 · · focus · HN ↗
      maybe for a brand new app submission.

      my apps take maybe 1-2 days max. usually hours.

    2. dsjakupov · · focus · HN ↗
      Same here My build was ready like for a month and all that was stopping me is the requirement for the 12 testers being active for 14 days. When I applied to both stores, I thought apple is gonna be a problem, but google is a bigger unmovable wall
      1. BatteryMountain · · focus · HN ↗
        Mine is in a company capacity, not personal capactiy, so according to their ui, i can immediately send for review without internal testing. But that review step is the one that is currently slow on their side.
        1. dsjakupov · · focus · HN ↗
          Got it, for me it happened in a day max on my main working account ( not personal )
    3. busymom0 · · focus · HN ↗
      Adding to this- Apple charges me $138 per year membership and the latest app took 3 weeks for review. Used to be very fast before (under 24 hours) but lately it's very long for new apps.
      1. andrekandre · · focus · HN ↗
        are you a well known business or submitting your very first app? its anecdotal, but it seems to me from experience at a couple companies is that apple/google are quick to review even new apps from established companies...
        1. busymom0 · · focus · HN ↗
          Ive heard that but not sure if true. I've been building and submitting apps for 15 years and have multiple approved and maintained apps in the store. (I am the developer of Hack, one of top hacker news clients on iOS and Android).

          Though mine is not a "company" account.

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