defuq Apple??
I cannot submit my app and I have a very critical app.
this is shit, here we don't celebrate Christmas, so maybe apple needs to fuckin consider that !!

Well, you want something from them. For them it's normal to celebrate Christmas. So you have adjust, not the other way around.

Dislike that? Stop publishing on their store.

@irene typical Europe, Australia and New Zealand too ;-)

@Makenshi well, I pay money annually to puvlish my app, they do no favor for free here !

@lazyDev Yes, and you're free to take your money somewhere else, if you dislike the terms of service they provide.

It's nothing abnormal for a business to respect a holiday as popular as Christmas. It also seems unlikely, that this is the first time that they close submissions for Christmas.

You basically have yourselves to blame, that you didn't factor in the holiday into your important update/release.

@Makenshi we don't have xmas at all bro, so chill out

@irene perhaps he is from Murica. they think they are alone in the globe..

"very critical app" LMAO ^^

@lazyDev, if your app has a prior release, eg. v1.0.0 and you submit in their holiday it still passes than. If not it won’t be in the break. But if you need an emergency release, call them and in 2 hours it’s reviewed even in their break.

@lazyDev Your generalization is "charming". But i'm not American. If you deal with business partners from foreign countries, you normally do some research about the habits and holidays there.

On a separate note, i'm sure you could get an support contract where you get the 24/7, 365 support that you want. Although i'm quite sure you wouldn't like the pay associated with that. : - )

@irene It's not abnormal at all. I have met companies, large ones mind you, that follow that policy. Regardless of what i think of that practice, it exists and needs to be accounted for.

OP is simply trying to shift blame from their subpar release management.

@Makenshi just like trying to get anything done with a Chinese company during their new year festivities in February. Even worse, that's also used for clan meetups and talking about new opportunities with the result that often like 30% of the workers don't show up at their previous work place again. Any construction place in South East Asia has to factor that in.

@irene sure, I'd rate it more difficult than working with India. Actually, if you really want to outsource dev parts because of costs, I'd rather consider Eastern Europe, like Bulgaria.

@irene it's a bit unstable there, and Bulgaria is in the EU which makes a lot of things simpler. The usual method with Ukraine is the other way around, to insource the good devs from there. ;-)

@irene move to Russia 😅

@Bitkris since when is releasing an update to your app critical to Apple? Apple still have staff available in case their infrastructure fails, but reviewing and releasing app update is just not critical. It's business as usual stuff.

@irene move to Poland 😅

@irene why Russia is that bad? I was joking anyway but your reaction made me curious