
Proceeds from the bundle will be donated through the American Red Cross, according to. The bundle is available thru Monday, March 21 and costs $19.95.
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So if you're not able to create a Mac app bundle, this might has put together a bundle of 15 Mac games to give gamers a way to give money to help those affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. I did not experience this problem myself, because I already have Underpass for iOS. After Vlad created an iOS app, the "New macOS Bundle" option suddenly started to appear in the list. If you have only Mac apps and never created an iOS app, then you're not able to create a Mac bundle for some reason. Vlad eventually discovered that this is a bug in App Store Connect tied to the existence of an iOS app. The option "New macOS Bundle" did not appear in the list for him. Addendum 2 (November 5)įellow Mac developer Vlad Badea told me about a problem he experienced trying to create a Mac app bundle in App Store Connect. They said another developer was having the same issue too. Someone from Apple called this morning to tell me that they fixed the issue. The whole experience was very bizarre and frustrating, because the apps are already approved and available in the Mac App Store, and a bundle simply offers a price discount on those apps, so I don't know why it's so difficult to publish a bundle.Īnyway, winter is coming, and it's time to bundle up! Addendum I replied to that, and although they didn't (yet) reply back, soon thereafter my bundle finally appeared in the Mac App Store, 72 hours after approval. They replied yesterday evening with an unhelpful canned response. So I emailed Apple Developer Program Support. Despite being approved, the bundle did not appear in the Mac App Store the next day. The day after that, though, on the evening of October 28, my bundle went into review again, and it was approved within 10 minutes. Three days later I received an email denying my request for an expedited review. The next day, bundles went live in the Mac App Store, but mine was still waiting for review, so I requested an expedited review. So I changed names to the boring "StopTheMadness Underpass Bundle" and re-submitted within a couple hours. I thought this was clever and amusing, but apparently App Store review has no sense of humor or whimsy. App Store review didn't like the name of the bundle "Please Pass The Madness Pack", which was based on the idea "PassTheMadness, please" suggested by a friend. However, the bundle sat in review until the evening of October 23, when it was rejected for metadata. I submitted my Mac app bundle on October 16, the day Apple announced bundles. My Mac apps are almost always approved within 24 hours after submission, and they almost always appear in the Mac App Store within 24 hours after release. My experience with Mac App Store publishing over the past two years was generally very good. This is in stark contrast to publishing the Mac apps themselves.

(Strangely, the compatibility of my bundle is listed as "OS X 10.6.6 or later" even though both apps require macOS 10.12 or later.)Īnother caveat for developers: Publishing a Mac app bundle was extremely difficult for me. Many Mac users have not yet installed Mojave, and it's a shame to completely ignore them. It's also problematic for developers to advertise their bundles, because the links will fail for customers not yet on Mojave.
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This is a very poor experience for Mac users.


If you try to open any Mac app bundle link on High Sierra and earlier, App Store app shows an empty page with the message "Cannot Connect to the App Store". It appears that Mac app bundles are only available in the new Mojave Mac App Store.
Macgamestore bundle for free#
Also, Underpass for iOS is available for free in the iOS App Store, so you can get all three of these apps for very little money! Hopefully I can make it up in volume…

Moreover, if you've already purchased one of these apps, you can use Complete My Bundle to purchase the other app and still take advantage of the bundle price. This bundle includes my two Mac App Store apps StopTheMadness and Underpass at a discounted price. After a relatively long road (not 4 years, but 2 weeks), my own StopTheMadness Underpass Bundle is finally available now in the Mac App Store on macOS 10.14 Mojave. App bundles have already been available in the iOS App Store for 4 years. On October 16, Apple announced that developers could start offering app bundles in the Mac App Store. Mac App Store Bundles Articles index Mac App Store Bundles NovemBy Jeff Johnson
