Warning to other iOS developers..

[blitter]

Well done achieving as much as you have so far, very inspiring! Ride this out you have good momentum and a positive attitude. I also enjoyed reading the community's comments both here plus on your site.

[lolzappan]

Originally Posted by Mr Qwak

Thank you! I totally apprecieate every little bit of support and encouragement from the community right now. Makes me feel not so isolated.

Sorry to hear what happened to you, the risk of the apple platform is becoming more apparent by every article I read.

It's not really my decision but I do wonder what happens when you put all your eggs in one basket (no easter pun intended) the other recent news http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...ess_udids.html also indicates sweeping changes. Speaking of which, I wonder what that means for those who are using SDK's that access UDID's? Anyway that's OT.

[Mr Qwak]

Thanks chaps.

Just have a mini update for you all...

I was in touch with Apple first thing this morning. They're aware of situation and have escalated it to their internal team to deal with. Still not sure how long that will take, but at least the ball is rolling now.

[WeeAllan]

Thats great that things are rolling for you now.

I hate to think what would happen if this happened to us

[30BelowStudios]

I'll grab a copy when it's back up. Every little bit helps.

[Mr Qwak]

Just had a call from them in the US. It seems to be going very slow, and they just don't have the same sense of urgency as I do. So frustrating. Mind you, I am the kind of person who likes everything to happen instantly anyway.

Also, frustrating to get passed from one person to the next. You explain the situation fully to one person, and they just pass on the bare minimum details, so you have to explain everything again to the next person.

[Hercule]

Arg I will probably make this kind of transfert this year.
Thanks for the warning.

[Mr Qwak]

Wel, I was on the phone to Apple this morning again. The support chap was very helpful, and 'human', and after explaining my situation more fully to him, he sounded genuinely keen to help me. So feeling hopeful again.

[Mr Qwak]

All good now! Just to wrap this up, here's a little more nitty-gritty for you...

Basically, when my iOS developer account was in individual mode, I had an incomplete iAds contract attached to my account (started it, but had not finished filling in tax info). This was the 'spanner in the works' when I migrated to a business account. All the time, I thought it was to do with the banking info too, it wasn't, it was just the iAds contract that got me. In the end, all I had to do was remove it (after Apple figured it out, and told me to), and everything quickly resolved itself. Job done!

Apple did say there were going to discuss this internally, and possibly put something in place to prevent it happening again (or at least warn people I guess).

Anyhow, hope that's helpful to anyone considering migrating.

If you can spare a tweet, please check out the following blog post, and click the 'tweet this article' link, half way down..

http://www.mrqwak.com/2012/03/save-retro-racing-day/

Cheers,
Jamie (the evil spambot)

[Hercule]

Thanks for the update!
It's a good information for me. Now I know what to avoid to do.

I bought your game, I like these old school car racing game.