The iOS Development Calendarw

January: “We just had our biggest sales quarter ever!” - Apple, adding another $20B to their bank account.

April: Speculation of what’s gonna be in the next version of iOS.

June: WWDC. New things! Wow! Ideas abound! Flurries of productivity. “Guys, I think Apple’s playing nicer with developers now!” - some people.

July: Wow, this beta is really beta.

September: iOS Next ships! New iPhone! Ship your app! Bugs!

October: Weird rejections that don’t make any sense.

December: Blog posts and tweets about how Apple is screwing themselves with the byzantine app review process.¹ Some rejections are overturned.

Written by Scott Williams who lives and works in sunny Phoenix, AZ. Twitter is also a place.