This is just bad for everyone involved. Apple could just say "fix it next time or we will reject you" rather than throwing a wrench into my operations.
Oh well... I'm going to keep developing iPhone apps and hope things improve.
You're a far more tolerant man than I. The fact that Apple is preventing you from supporting your customers is inexcusable.
These kinds of issues can be extremely hurtful to an ISV. I wonder if upper management at Apple knows how much damage they're doing to their reputation in the developer community.
It's true that it is extremely painful to watch emails and bad reviews come in complaining about a bug that you fixed weeks ago when Apple is blocking you from getting the fix out there. On the other hand, we make money off the app store, and we didn't off of our website. So it's a little easier to be tolerant.
I have had two apps get randomly rejected for things that had existed for several versions. I blogged about this a bit: http://www.gaiagps.com/news/article/Update%20on%20Gaia%20GPS...
This is just bad for everyone involved. Apple could just say "fix it next time or we will reject you" rather than throwing a wrench into my operations.
Oh well... I'm going to keep developing iPhone apps and hope things improve.