Yours truly, with some context-free snarking on Mastodon three weeks ago:

“The following app has been approved for distribution.”

changing to

“The following app has completed Notarization.”

in 3… 2…

The language was indeed changed, per Riley Testut, who sparked the controversy in the first place:

The following app is ready for distribution.

From “has been approved” to “is ready.” Damn, I should have thought of that one—Apple doesn’t waste words.

(For context, as I neglected to link to it here at the time, see TechCrunch’s story about the (EU-only) release of the first native iOS porn app, Hot Tub. The short-short version: Apple was not happy with the app being marketed as “The First Apple-Approved Porn App” because, in their mind, they had merely “approved” it in the this-has-passed-our-minimal-review-process sense, not in the we-think-this-is-acceptable sense.)

I’m sure Phil sleeps better now.