Apple has provided the ability to transfer applications from one developer to another
Against the background of discussions of a new, highly optimized OS X Mavericks, and the dubiously reworked interface of iOS 7 with its poor application icons, presented yesterday at WWDC, another piece of news went completely unnoticed - one more thing that was not mentioned at the presentation. Registered developers have learned about it in the letter iTunes Connect newsletter:
From today you can move applications between developer accounts.
Previously, if it was necessary to change the account on whose behalf the application is published, the only possible solution was to remove the application from one account and add it to another. This would entail a lot of unpleasant consequences for both users and developers:
Now everything becomes transparent and simple - only the name in the column Seller is changed for the user. All ratings and reviews of the application are kept.
This gives more flexibility to developers, publishers and customers. Developers are no longer tied “forever” to one publisher, and customers who originally published the application on behalf of the developer company can transfer the development contract to any other outsourcer, publisher, or publish the application on their own behalf. And, of course, you can simply sell applications with the giblets :).
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Apple stipulated the necessary conditions for the transfer of the application :
The process of submitting an application if all the above conditions are met will take up to 3 hours from the time the developer accepts the request to which the application goes. If the application supports iAd or Game Center, as well as if there are export restrictions, the procedure may take up to 2 business days.
However, there is a serious limitation - you cannot transfer applications with iCloud support enabled or an in-app purchase subscription .
Nevertheless, Apple’s policy change in this direction is encouraging - the ways of distributing applications are becoming more flexible and give more opportunities to all participants in the process.
From today you can move applications between developer accounts.
Previously, if it was necessary to change the account on whose behalf the application is published, the only possible solution was to remove the application from one account and add it to another. This would entail a lot of unpleasant consequences for both users and developers:
- users would stop receiving updates, and the application would need to be re-downloaded
- developers would lose reviews and ratings in the App Store - they would have to spend additional efforts to promote the application (of course, in some cases it would be useful - for example, if the developer wanted to “get rid of bad karma”)
Now everything becomes transparent and simple - only the name in the column Seller is changed for the user. All ratings and reviews of the application are kept.
This gives more flexibility to developers, publishers and customers. Developers are no longer tied “forever” to one publisher, and customers who originally published the application on behalf of the developer company can transfer the development contract to any other outsourcer, publisher, or publish the application on their own behalf. And, of course, you can simply sell applications with the giblets :).
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Apple stipulated the necessary conditions for the transfer of the application :
- active developer account, active contract with Apple
- the presence of at least one approved version of the application
- the application should not be in the In Review status (Ready for Sale, Invalid Binary, Rejected, Developer Rejected, Developer Removed from Sale are allowed)
- built-in purchases must be in appropriate status (Ready to Submit, Developer for Sale, Rejected, Developer Removed from Sale, or Approved)
The process of submitting an application if all the above conditions are met will take up to 3 hours from the time the developer accepts the request to which the application goes. If the application supports iAd or Game Center, as well as if there are export restrictions, the procedure may take up to 2 business days.
However, there is a serious limitation - you cannot transfer applications with iCloud support enabled or an in-app purchase subscription .
Nevertheless, Apple’s policy change in this direction is encouraging - the ways of distributing applications are becoming more flexible and give more opportunities to all participants in the process.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/182928/
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