AMBER Alerts Developer Is Frustrated

The developer behind the AMBER Alert application for Apple’s iPhone certainly isn’t too happy with Apple’s approval process for the App Store, especially since Apple seems to have been taking its own sweet time over the approval of this app. The developer has written an open letter to Steve Jobs, giving some rather reasonable reasons as to why Apple should expedite the approval of this app. The letter reads:

“The need to send this email represents everything that is wrong with your App Store review process. I’ve been working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to build an App Store application that revolutionizes how missing children are reported to law enforcement. By using the iPhone’s GPS and some geo-analytics, we’re able to build automated search radii and quickly relay sightings to law enforcement agencies. With an audience of millions of iPhone users, the missing kids that are out there stand to gain a LOT more exposure.

Yet nearly a month has passed since my February 14th submission, and the application continues to sit “In Review”.

… As a developer and a human being, I’m anxious to see this application released. If I were the parent of one of these missing children, I would be unable to withstand the unreasonable delays Apple has taken in approving this application. The reprobate and fearful world these children are surviving in may very well be prolonged because of Apple’s lack of interest in independent developers like me. “