iTunes Locks Screenshots
iTunes Locks Screenshots. Thanks, scammers.
Update 2012-01-11:
Federico Viticci lays down some of the problems with introducing a trusted developer scheme to work around issues with scammers. But Apple (once again) chose the easy way out by simply removing the Edit-Buttons from iTunes Connect.
A more gentle way would have been introducing a mini-review for metadata. This wouldn’t require a new binary and would save 20 seconds off of each review for an unchanged binary.
A metadata-review would only display a simple diff to the reviewer. If the screenshots changed dramatically and now include Mario and Luigi, reject them.
Also, think about apps that cannot be submitted any longer for a number of reasons but may need new screenshots and metadata. And be aware that text descriptions could be next to be locked.