Give us the API and we'll show you how to do it

I'm talking about the app Apple recently has put on download for free, iTunes Connect Mobile (iTC), for developers/publishers to track their sales on iTunes Stores.

With all the hopes Apple updates and brings more usefulness in this app in future, here's my review: Seriously, this is the thing every developer wanted on their iPhones. Apple has been rejecting third party app sales tracking apps forever. And what we now have, is an official app for the purpose.

Let me say, this iTunes Connect Mobile brings me no useful "presentation" except a graph for everything that can be filtered by location, days and apps. That's it. No reviews. No revenues. Nothing else. Moreover, I'm not a computer to parse the numbers it shows me for download/update stats. I have to read the numbers and parse everything with my brain to make it meaningful, which is not why I would download an app instead of reading those txt files in my account stats. SILLY.

Apple, you should have used the open source AppSales Mobile app to base this on. Find it on http://github.com/omz/AppSales-Mobile. Oh and you broke every other app dealing with stats on iTunes Connect before releasing your own version! If iTC uses the API, I don't see a reason to it!

Seriously, did you iTunes Connect account get hacked, to upload this kind of quirky and crappy UI App? Even the Tab Bar items are off by a few pixels! Remember, you're not dealing with newbies by selling this app!

Give us the API to iTunes Connect and we'll show you how to do it.

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