Apple has huge backlog to iPhone app developers

Indebtedness in Apple's payment processing system has left some iPhone developers still waiting for February's payments, leaving some at risk of bankruptcy and considering legal action against the lads in Cupertino. On all letters coming from the desperate developers only one answer came – to stop e-mailing iTunes finance system and to wait patiently for their money while Apple sorts things out. The huge success of Apple's iTunes store has caught the company by surprise, but having sold the service to small-scale developers it's harsh to leave them begging and desperate. In the postings on the iPhone developer community Apple has been blaming bank errors and processing problems for the delays. Complainants are being told that payments have been made, that bank errors have caused rejections. One hard-up developer concerned reckons he posted that story onto Apple's support forum too, from where he claims the thread was deleted. Dealing with thousands of developers (and their banks) all over the world is a significant undertaking, and one for which Apple seems ill-prepared, even when pocketing almost a third of the money in addition to an annual fee. The situation, as ever, is exacerbated by Apple's refusal to comment or apologize, which seems to be a blanket position on everything, except shaken babies.