The Santa Scan app is now officially available on the App Store!
This is a huge milestone for myself personally, if not for the world at large. 🙂
This being my first app, I had a few questions about what to expect. Mainly, since the name of the app is Santa Scan, would the app come up as the top hit when I search for “santa scan” in iTunes? I half expected that it would. But alas, life is not so simple. The app appears somewhere in the middle of a list of nearly 30 apps. It is even below an app for the Santa Cruz Police. I did not see that one coming!
iTunes results for “santa scan”
There is hope, though. I like my icon best, and it kind of sticks out.
Also, if someone were to search iTunes for “round scan”, for whatever odd reason, then Santa Scan is currently the top hit. And it comes out pretty high for “santa trip” plus a few other searches, some of which even make sense and don’t include the company name (“round trip software”) but will remain secret.
It was 4:30 am when I finally got the app uploaded and into the Apple queue.
Santa Scan is not yet available on the App Store, but I have finally tossed it over the fence to the App Store review team. With Christmas coming soon, I had to make the final push and get this done, no matter how late I stayed up. No sense letting a Christmas app slip to January or even late December. The app itself was done early in the night, but I spent the rest of the night dealing with the new (to me) maze of certificates and provisioning profiles and weird errors bundling and uploading the app.
As it turns out, nobody at my kid’s school got the word that I had stayed up so late. They proceeded to start class as normal at 7:45 am, and my daughter still expected me to get her there. Then it was off to my own day job.
Later, I happened to be listening in the car to the audiobook Insanely Great about the creation of the original Macintosh computer. There was a three-word quote from Steve Jobs to the Macintosh team during the struggle and setbacks of development. “Real artists ship”, he said. Did Steve Jobs just call me a real artist? 😉
