As part of the retooling for the Sprint Software Store, the telco announced plans to aggressively change the turnaround time in receiving, reviewing, and approving new apps.
"If you want to get something onto the (current) Sprint Software Store, someone has to review it, someone's got to test it. By the time those things happen through long lead times, we've seen that some of the content completely loses its relevance. We've got to stop. We've got to get out of the way so that content can get up here faster," J.P. Brocket, Sprint's general manager of wireless applications, said during the the company's Open Developer Conference.
Brock added that the turnaround time will depend on what the app does, pointing out that an app for finding a local pizza joint would get approved pretty quickly, but one touting turn-by-turn directions might take a little longer. But if Sprint can stick to a one-week schedule regardless of the type of app, in most cases it will be getting things done twice as fast (or more) than Apple.
Some other changes are in store as well. Sprint said it would start charging developers an unspecified fee to have their apps re-reviewed, and new payment methods are being added
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"If you want to get something onto the (current) Sprint Software Store, someone has to review it, someone's got to test it. By the time those things happen through long lead times, we've seen that some of the content completely loses its relevance. We've got to stop. We've got to get out of the way so that content can get up here faster," J.P. Brocket, Sprint's general manager of wireless applications, said during the the company's Open Developer Conference.
Brock added that the turnaround time will depend on what the app does, pointing out that an app for finding a local pizza joint would get approved pretty quickly, but one touting turn-by-turn directions might take a little longer. But if Sprint can stick to a one-week schedule regardless of the type of app, in most cases it will be getting things done twice as fast (or more) than Apple.
Some other changes are in store as well. Sprint said it would start charging developers an unspecified fee to have their apps re-reviewed, and new payment methods are being added
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