Of course, you know about that old trick that iPhone developers and marketers (I hate that word) used to get back on the first page of their category: create a small update, even once a week, resubmit it, and when the update is done, change the release date to the day it’s done. That allowed your app to come back from the deepness of page 324 of the AppStore to the first page of the category.

Of course, it is still not as good as the very very first page. But it provided a nice bump in sales. You can see that bump thing on this graph of GPSRecorder sales.

I stopped using that trick in a regular way for 321run. I am not making as many updates as used to do. I now test them more thoroughly, and add more features in each update (I almost always added features in updates, except when there is a ridiculously crashing bug). In 321Run, there was a 1.0, a 1.1, a 1.2 and (unfortunately) a 1.2.1. Over the course of 6 months.

All in all, if that change of the publication has such an impact on the review process, I say wonderful. Imagine 100 0000 apps being updated regularly, and picture the army you would need to do it.