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You're not including apps rejected: 1,679,694 basically only 1 out of 2 apps submitted even make it in. there's a further breakdown of how many are rejected fo

You're not including apps rejected: 1,679,694 basically only 1 out of 2 apps submitted even make it in. there's a further breakdown of how many are rejected for what reasons.

lapcat 3y ago
> You're not including apps rejected: 1,679,694 1. That's submissions, not apps. Every update to every app has to be reviewed. If your update is rejected, your app still remains in the App Store. 2. When I said "fight scams in the crApp Store", I meant those already in the crApp Store. They obviously already made it through review. > basically only 1 out of 2 apps submitted even make it in. Where do you get 1 out of 2? According to the stats, 72% of submissions are approved on the first try (6,101,913 submissions reviewed). Of the submissions rejected, 15% (253,466) are approved after rejection. Overall, 77% of submissions are approved sooner or later. Actually, those percentages probably aren't exactly right, because some rejected apps can have multiple submissions. We don't know the exact numbers there. Here's some "napkin math". We know there were 4,422,219 approvals (6,101,913 submissions - 1,679,694 rejections). We know that 253,466 of those approvals were initial rejects. Thus, there were 4,168,753 first-try approvals. Let's assume for the sake of argument that each reject made 2 attempts on average. So out of 1,679,694 total rejections, there were 839,847 rejects. That gives a total of 839,847 + 4,168,753 = 5262066 candidate apps. Thus, under this assumption, the first try approval rate would be 84%? Someone correct me if I messed up something.
- fastaguy88 3y ago
  The confusion I have is that there are “only” 1.7 million apps. So comparing submissions and rejections to apps seems problematic. It seems like less than 10% of those 5.2 million apps actually made it into the store, assuming an app is there for 3-ish years.
  - lapcat 3y ago
    An app submission is a specific version of an app: 1.0 or 2.0 or whatever number the developer gives it. As I said, "Every update to every app has to be reviewed." There can be 4,422,219 app submission approvals for only 1,783,232 apps in the store because many apps have multiple software updates per year. Some apps seem to update every week...

You're not including apps rejected: 1,679,694 basically only 1 out of 2 apps submitted even make it in. there's a further breakdown of how many are rejected for what reasons.

lapcat 3y ago

> You're not including apps rejected: 1,679,694 1. That's submissions, not apps. Every update to every app has to be reviewed. If your update is rejected, your app still remains in the App Store. 2. When I said "fight scams in the crApp Store", I meant those already in the crApp Store. They obviously already made it through review. > basically only 1 out of 2 apps submitted even make it in. Where do you get 1 out of 2? According to the stats, 72% of submissions are approved on the first try (6,101,913 submissions reviewed). Of the submissions rejected, 15% (253,466) are approved after rejection. Overall, 77% of submissions are approved sooner or later. Actually, those percentages probably aren't exactly right, because some rejected apps can have multiple submissions. We don't know the exact numbers there. Here's some "napkin math". We know there were 4,422,219 approvals (6,101,913 submissions - 1,679,694 rejections). We know that 253,466 of those approvals were initial rejects. Thus, there were 4,168,753 first-try approvals. Let's assume for the sake of argument that each reject made 2 attempts on average. So out of 1,679,694 total rejections, there were 839,847 rejects. That gives a total of 839,847 + 4,168,753 = 5262066 candidate apps. Thus, under this assumption, the first try approval rate would be 84%? Someone correct me if I messed up something.

fastaguy88 3y ago
The confusion I have is that there are “only” 1.7 million apps. So comparing submissions and rejections to apps seems problematic. It seems like less than 10% of those 5.2 million apps actually made it into the store, assuming an app is there for 3-ish years.
- lapcat 3y ago
  An app submission is a specific version of an app: 1.0 or 2.0 or whatever number the developer gives it. As I said, "Every update to every app has to be reviewed." There can be 4,422,219 app submission approvals for only 1,783,232 apps in the store because many apps have multiple software updates per year. Some apps seem to update every week...