Developers confirm to that they're waiting a while for their Mac App Store apps to get approved. Justin Williams of Second Gear Software submitted to the store on September 9; Apple didn't approve the GitHub-monitoring app until October 5--that's 26 days. Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software submitted an update to his blogging app 21 days ago, and he's still waiting for approval. Christopher Liscio of SuperMegaUltraGroovy has similarly been waiting three weeks for his app to get approved.

One developer who asked not to be named waited 28 days between submission and approval for an update to an app we've previously named as a Mac Gem. And Gus Mueller of Flying Meat tells that he's been waiting on an approval for for 22 days, and on Tuesday decided to release the update to direct customers without continuing to wait for the Mac App Store version to become available. Numerous other developers confirmed similar wait times to as well.

As Jalkut pointed out, even if Apple's working to clear out the Mac App Store review queue, that might not be obvious yet. "I'm not sure how easy it will be to tell if things are speeding up, because so many people (presumably) are already in the queue at 20 or 30 days," he wrote. "It may be the kind of thing that needs to see the queue flushed out to adequately gauge improvements."

Jalkut may well be right. But Apple isn't saying.