Apple, will you let us (and 50.000 visitors) down?
In two days, there is a big dance festival in the Netherlands, called Dance Valley. Together with Hyves, UDC, and Heineken Refreshing sounds, we have created a mobile map for it. Also for the iPhone. However, it’s been two weeks since we’ve applied to Apple, and we’re still not in the app store.
It’s a nice application with a GPS enabled festival map, the line-up, all the info points (like toilets, food, etc) and it has a connection with a big Hyves screen that you can post your updates to.
I admit it, we were a bit late, but it’s about time that Apple puts the us in the store. We have 2 days left, and we haven’t heard anything from them yet. We got the request from Heineken very late, and we’ve worked hard to apply to the store in time.
This issue with uncertainty about how long the admission process will take and whether Apple will actually approve the application will hold us (and most probably also other companies) back to develop such an event based application again.
For people without an iPhone, you can get the application by filling in your phone number below:
July 10th, 2009 at 10:38
Agree its disappointing. Im heading out to DV tomorrow and was hoping to have this gizmo to play with there!! fingers crossed it gets approved today!!
July 10th, 2009 at 12:39
Is er toch een manier om de applicatie te krijgen? Misschien een ipa file op een Jailbroken iPhone? Lijkt me wel erg cool om deze zaterdag te gebruiken
September 12th, 2009 at 16:29
Hey guys. Did you get in the appstore before the festival? Those apple reviews are definitly annoying in this case. I always wait around 3 weeks just fo a boring update without any special added functionality. Maybe facebook has some benefits – they got an update within 3 days !!
greez from austria/vienna
September 14th, 2009 at 11:09
No, we didn’t get in on time….
We got in on the Monday morning after the festival……
October 5th, 2009 at 23:47
No, we didn’t get in on time….
We got in on the Monday morning after the festival……