One more thing... on encryption export compliance for iPhone apps
Let me add an important thing to the previous posts (see our first blog post to start from the beginning):
Apple offers a three-step approval that allows you to start selling your application on the iTunes App Store (to limited markets) even before you went through the whole review and approval process with the Government.
Here it is:
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If you confirm to Apple that you agree to go through with the CCATS review process, they offer:
1) To allow sales in the U.S. and Canada immediately. For that, first uncheck all the other countries in iTunesConnect (Manage your Application -> Edit Information -> Pricing). Btw. that's 75 clicks, folks. There is no 'uncheck all' button...
2) Now to the most important part of this post: upon receipt of your CCATS application by the Bureau of Information Security, Apple allows sale in the following 34 additional countries:
Australia Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus
Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France
Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland
Italy Japan Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg
Malta Netherlands New Zealand Norway Poland
Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain
Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom
That is BEFORE the approval of the Government, which should save you at least 30 days in the process. And I would say that is a significant amount of countries (and potential customers) that you can sell to prior to approval.
3) When you have got approval and therefore received your CCATS number, Apple will allow worldwide sales. (or to all countries your CCATS allows you to sell to)
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