Slash Lane"My bad," Sarah Bacon began her corrected post, "I was mistaken."
Originally, the product manager had criticized the iPhone maker in a post entitled "And so we wait...on Apple." In it, Bacon said that the iPhone App Store approval process was "somewhat unpredictable," and she blamed Apple for the delay of the latest update to Yahoo Messenger.
While she originally said the application had been submitted to Apple for approval weeks ago, that changed in the retraction soon posted on the Yahoo Messenger Blog.
"Turns out I didn't have the latest information about our Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone app, which is awaiting approval and release by Apple," she said, adding that the company withdrew its previous submission of the program to make changes.
She continued: "So the newly submitted Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone app has been with Apple for less than a week, and is well within the timeframe for their approval process."
Yahoo now expects Apple to approve their update to its Messenger application very soon, and Bacon admitted she jumped the gun in criticizing the iPhone maker. In recent weeks, Apple's approval process for the App Store has come under fire in the media, prompting company executive Phil Schiller to personally fight back.
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In a related story, Yahoo has announced the reassignment of their former Yahoo product manager to their new remote office located in a suburb of Nome, AK.
In a related story, Yahoo has announced the reassignment of their former Yahoo product manager to their new remote office located in a suburb of Nome, AK.
Can you imagine how she would have reacted if they had actually {gasp} asked her to change something about the app?
a complaint about how long it takes apple to approve something from a company who takes forever to release Yahoo IM feature on the mac long after the feature existed on their non Mac application.
So when they are in a hurry apple has to jump and when they drag their feet releasing features for the rest of us they could care less.
I think apple should send them a letter saying when you start stepping up your efforts to support our product then maybe we will release your apps on the iphone a little faster.
Can you say, "Oops!"
"My bad."