Lots of bloggers talk about the challenges in getting their telco style apps approved - it was big news Q3 2009.
As a provider of a telco app for the iPhone, shipping since mid 2009, we have been through the process of getting our app firstly accepted and then delivering a number of updates.
The big news is that it looks like Apple is getting serious about their commitment to helping developers get their apps to market quickly - and is even extending this to the Telco apps market.
We had an amazing experience with Apple this past week.
We have been hard at work on our new WebCan V2.0 system and had released the web version only early December 2009. To make our iPhone app compatible with the new backend we needed to release a new version - and we really were fearful that it would take a lot of work to get it approved.
Well to our surprise the approval process for our update - which contains a lot of fantastic new features - took all of 5 working days! We were ecstatic to be able to get the update out to our users before Christmas.
And we learn that on the same day Apple has also approved the Ribbit App - that provides some of the same features as BigTinCan Connect (just at $30 a month!) anyway it really shows that the telco market on the iPhone is starting to get serious.
We think that this is all a preview to the VoIP over 3G market that will be significant in 2H2010. We are very much looking forward to releasing our solution for that market.
Its going to be a great year in 2010 for a whole range of smartphone apps that offer telco cost savings and most importantly productivity gains.
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