The notoriously tight-lipped company used to be more public--in its own, muted way--about review times for the App Store. A page available to registered iOS developers indicated what percentage of new apps and app updates had been approved in the past X business days; that X fluctuated a bit.

At last report, Apple said that the iOS App Store had approved 89 percent of new app submissions, and 95 percent of submitted app updates, within eight business days. The only problem: While Apple used to update that number daily, it now hasn't been updated since July 6 of this year.

And that number, of course, is only minimally useful. Developers mostly care about how long they--and thus, their customers--must wait to get their apps approved. The stale number doesn't help developers at all, and again, Apple's never offered a similar stat, stale or otherwise, for Mac App Store developers.

Apple declined to comment to on the record.

For now, there's nothing anxious developers and their customers can do but wait.