To recall, these buttons are used to adjust the amount of room that you wish to book for a hotel (most often : only one).

Goodbye AddContact button from Apple. Goodbye blue background, welcome to the green one, same color as the bottom big Reservation / Total button. And for the shape : a square with rounded edges instead of disk. Finally, the “effect” : inset in place of drop shadow.

Before/after compared :

And you, what is your opinion on this makeover ?

It’s our first submission, all is new for us. So we hope this mandatory step will roll to the end as best as possible and that we’ll have our ticket to finally deliver to you the result of our last months hard working !

Be patient… but we can’t help thinking that we’ll have at least one reject, because after all Apple recommandations in human interface are rich, our platform experience so fresh and our own interface very singular.

Indeed, except video games, we are among the only ones to have made a 100% horizontal mode application. This mode is cool because, in our view, it allows :

• A more comfortable input on the keyboard of the iPhone
• His panoramic aspect/ratio is ideal to view hotels pictures.

Anyway, we use this validation period to consider the following, the improvements we can make and the ideas that we had planned but not yet implemented in this first version.

10th july 2008, Apple launched the Appstore. That was 16 months ago…
In 16 months, the appstore have grown at an incredible speed and now offer more than 100 000 applications.

So, that means they approve 6250 applications aprouved / month . We also know from Apple that they reviewed 8500 iPhone apps per week.

Stating that each app has to be reviewed by two people, and they have 40 people working on it. That gives less than 6 minutes to review an app !

Is it really possible? Or Apple have other secrets ?

Let’s make some suggestions for fun :

1. The Technologic way :
   They use a supercomputer like HAL which scan apps (there is already a rumor about that !)
2. The Outsourcing way :
   They employed an army of iPhone geeks who review apps not for money but for pleasure.
3. The efficiency way :
   Apple’s employees can review apps while using firm’s toilets (sorry about that )
4. The “Less is More” way:
   They just simulate reviewing apps (that could explain the amount of crappy apps on Appstore !)… the submission process is just made to give emotions to developpers … Apple is really the master of suspense !
5. The Guru way :
   Steve jobs can simply detect “bad apps” by putting his hands over.

If you had another theory, please share it !

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