Hi, I'm Jeremy Foo.
I write software to make lazy people lazier.

App Store approval has always been a controversy. So much so that Apple has devoted a small 230x190px space buried under “App Store Approval Process” in the developer portal to telling you the percentage of apps that were approved within a 7 day period.

We have OpenRader to track bugreports, so why not a community drive initiate to get better approval ratings. Last I checked, the percentages on that small space was updated on the 20th of April. 2 whole weeks ago. Or more.

I suppose there would be some way to push baseline data by having dev submit a html page of their status history for submissions. That way the system can parse and get the average rate of approval thus far.

Apply a little magic for applications still currently in approval and we could get a very up to date picture of how long apps might get approved.

Separate by new app submissions and updates and we would have a fantastic idea of how long everything takes.

And with everything, there are more things that can be done with such an idea.