My startup times for APP are fine – usually around 5 seconds. However, I have had some occasions when I receive a message that my license could not be verified. If I had to guess, these usually seem to coincide with times when I’ve shut down APP and started it up soon thereafter. If it helps, the most recent time I had this trouble would have been within a few minutes of 18:08 UTC on 5/17.
Also, I tried shutting off my wireless on my laptop and opening APP. I received a message telling me I didn’t have an internet connection (which would have been correct). I still think it would be worthwhile to have some method to allow users to run APP when they don’t have an internet connection – perhaps only verify licensing every few days or maybe even as long as a week?