Germany - relocating to Hamburg

So, I sold up everything I owned (which wasn’t much…) and moved to Germany around 2 weeks ago. I found an apartment relatively easily, but the getting the money from the US to Germany to pay for the apartment has been a major sore point.

International Wire from the US to Germany

I sent the wire on the 18th May, and it was supposed arrive on the 21st May…. or so I thought. The wire was sent as my 2.5yr old daughter was running around me singing and dancing, so to say I was a little distracted was an understatement. I managed to mess up the recipient name. No problem, I figured. I’ll contact the bank and let them now what happened… well I did, and thought nothing more of the issue, as the transaction hadn’t confirmed yet.

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App Store review macOS and iOS review nightmares

So for the past 3 weeks I have been literally banging my head against a wall with the App Store review process and the cryptic illogical rejection reasons.

App Store review

I am normally quite happy with the App Store review process, and my apps are normally all reviewed and available within 24hrs. However just recently I have had the mis-fortune of feeling the pain many other iOS/macOS devs speak of. Two of my apps; Cookie 5 and Bitcoin Convert have both taken 3 weeks to be approved and ready for sale. Although both for entirely different reasons, both updates were delayed for what seemed like an eternity….

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