What are the odds that this iPhone app will fail?

Question

I've been waiting on an iPhone app to go through the app store approval process. It's been in the queue for about two weeks now.

Apple recently added something to the dev center about reachability, pointing developers to their sample app. In my app, I'm posting to a URL on my server using HTTP - but I'm not doing a reachability check first. If the user tries to submit the request, it will eventually time out and they will see an error.

What are the chances that Apple will fail this app? I'm wondering if I should just quickly implement reachability and "reject binary" myself, submitting a new version. Might save me a couple of days if I'm just going to get rejected anyway.

Answer 1

Implement reachability, if your app uses the web and when there is no connectivity the app doesnt say something along the lines that "this is not working because you have no internet access" then 95 percent it will be rejected by apple

Answer 2

Sounds like you answered your own question to me - not handling that case is a serious UX problem you should definitely fix.

Answer 3

If I were expecting to deal with a reasonable, smart approval process, I would do exactly that -- fix the app to match their new documents. It's a classy move, implying you'd be a good citizen.

You may want to rely on someone who's been through the iPhone app store, though, for an answer with the right amount of cynicism.