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The iOS Developer Update Cycle
Earlier this month I received an email from Apple telling me that “Your app, Life Audit, app Apple ID: 365471153, does not follow one or more of the App Store Review Guidelines.”
I have had a number of these emails, as Apple works to clean out the cruft from the App Store. Some apps I have let gracefully slip away and others I have maintained. This is one of the “hidden” development costs.
Life Audit is a free app that was originally released on the 3rd April 2010 and was meant as a feeder for Life Goals which was my best selling paid app. It is written in Objective C, uses a 3rd party graphing library and as Life Goals has been taken down awaiting a similar update it doesn’t really serve any purpose. There have been about 24,000 downloads from the App Store.
Nevertheless I decided it wouldn’t take too much effort to freshen up the app to at least to iOS 8 compatibility (which is what Apple currently require). I considered rewriting the app in Swift but this seemed like a waste of effort for what is largely a nostalgic exercise. In total it ended taking about 12 hours to upgrade…
