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Blog - February 2010

Archive for February, 2010

Why is our app twice as large as what we submitted? “Contagious zeros”

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

iTunes App Store

As you probably know, Apple has an app download limit for users downloading over 3G. Up until recently, this limit was 10 MB. If your app's file size exceeds the limit, users attempting to download it over 3G receive an error and must try again later over wifi. Needless to say, this can lead to frustrated users and lost sales and if you can get your app under this limit, it's definitely worth the effort.

So, when we submitted our latest update of Pig Rush to Apple for review, we worked hard to get it under the (then) 10 MB 3G app download limit.
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Pig Rush 1.2 released… and approved by Apple in 12.5 hours!

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Pig Rush

We've heard buzz about improvements to Apple's release process resulting in shorter review periods, but this is the first time we've experienced it directly.

Last night, we submitted a major update of our addictive game Pig Rush to Apple for review. At 7:17 PM we received the standard notice that it was Waiting for Review:
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