Comment by nobrains
Most likely the decision was taken internally, but sometimes to make it official requires some procedural paperwork. Apple probably got the green light that the approval was approved on the way.
Most likely the decision was taken internally, but sometimes to make it official requires some procedural paperwork. Apple probably got the green light that the approval was approved on the way.
Having been next to the people working with the FDA at one point, they do tend to give a lot of feedback, especially when they don't like something. And there were a lot of hoops to jump though where the feedback was "you are on track" for a while before the actual official approval of that step came through.
Very likely all of the core approvals were done, and they were just waiting on things like approval of software testing methodology (yes, they have to approve your software testing system), or something of the like.