2012/10/1 Brian Conrad <[email protected]> > > I would doubt that ANY human beings even look at the apps submitted to > Apple. They probably run them through some automated testing and if > anything is flagged THEN a human looks at the app.
I don't think that's the case. I've experienced several things during Apple's review process that couldn't possibly have been automated. Plus there is often some random issue that was hand picked by the reviewer that was present in a previous version but no one noticed before. There seems to be a lot of arbitrary decisions made, like approving two or three versions of an app in a row, and then the fourth version is rejected for a reason that was present in the previous versions as well. If it were actually automated it would have been rejected the first time around, wouldn't it? Also, in the case of Blackberry Tablet OS, they rejected an app because it contained a picture of an iPad :-) That would have been very hard to detect automatically. Amazon also runs Android apps through testing too but again it is probably > mostly automated. I also think this is mostly manual (or that's what I can feel from the feedback they gave me). Maybe they run the app through some standard tests before reviewing to discard crashing apps and such, but still, after it has passed them, they still have a person actually reviewing the app, even if it's just to see if it runs (no deep testing). The only store that don't have people reviewing apps is probably Google Play. Well, having that in mind, there aren't so many crappy apps as that fact would make you think ;-) Or at least I haven't found a significant number of bad apps (non-functioning or malicious). Octavio -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
