[paulddraper]

It appears they submitted the app before the holidays?

> After spending 19 days to review our submission, causing us to miss a long-planned January 2nd launch date

[angulardragon03]

Apple’s offices were closed 22/12 - 01/01, which is a not-insignificant chunk of those 19 days (not mentioning that their chosen launch date was the first day back)

[keleftheriou]

People keep bringing this up, but the reality is that the US holiday season slowdown is only for a handful of days and not sufficient to explain a 19-day review time.

From Apple's announcement[1]:

> On average, 90% of submissions are reviewed in less than 24 hours. However, reviews may take a bit longer to complete from December 22 to 27.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=uijoypq9

[lawgimenez]

It took longer because they submitted a new app where reviewers have no means of signing in.

[keleftheriou]

Where do you get this from?

[lawgimenez]

> Apple rejected our stand-alone free companion app “because it doesn’t do anything”.

It says on DHH’s blog. We can’t know for sure unless he shares a screenshot of it but more or less that is the reason because I was rejected with this same reason before.

[ricardobeat]

Providing credentials for a test account is mandatory, and as a company publishing multiple apps it’s not something they would miss.