Anecdotally, I had an app approved in just 5 hours after submitting it to the App Store. Granted, it was a charity app to offer crisis maps of Haiti, but they can be responsive sometimes. They also approved an update to the app in a few hours a couple days later, after I sent them this email:<p>====================<p>Hi,<p>We submitted an update to Gaia GPS (for Haitian Disaster Relief) that added new maps and fixed some critical bugs.<p>This app was originally approved just a few hours after it was submitted to the App Store, and if you could approve the update as well, that would be much appreciated.<p>====================<p>My updates often take about 10 days to approve and my new apps about 14.<p>It's definitely annoying, but Paul Graham is way overstating the extent to which anyone cares. The only people who really care are people who gets app rejected for odd reasons or who have apps that flop. Don't get me wrong... we care, but the tone of discord that Paul is imagining among iPhone developers is not correct. At least, my many anecdotes contradict his, and there is no real data either way.