A recent blog post by an employee of Yahoo’s Messenger division (dubbed And so we wait on Apple) has raised quite a ruckus on various tech blogs.
Unfortunately, it was wrong – the retraction statement goes as follows:
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If you want all of the gory details… Two weeks ago we submitted an updated version of Yahoo! Messenger for the iPhone to the App Store for approval, but withdrew it to make some additional fixes and enhancements. Doing so reset the approval process timeline.
So the newly submitted Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone app has been with Apple for less than a week, and is well within the timeframe for their approval process.
Mea cupla. We’re a big company and despite all our fabulous technology, we can get our wires crossed and a certain blogger (yup, me) can jump the gun.
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Either way: the more press Apple gets, the sooner its iTunes store procedures will improve. Developers win – so thank you, Yahoo 
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