iSpell Me

On Dec 11 the rest of updates submitted on Oct 21st and rejected in bulk on Nov 19th finally made thru. For those updates that added in-app purchases that Apple have little knowledge how to test at least back in October - early November the review took 51 days or those updates are the second longest in review.

Surprisingly enough, on Oct 21st I submitted a bunch of similar apps that got rejected on Nov. 19th, resubmitted on Nov 20th and they made thru review on different dates: Dec 2nd, Dec 4th, Dec 8th and Dec. 11th.

iSpell House

Being pissed at Apple for Nov 19th "blanket rejectection" and still seeing updates appearing on the front page with "release date hack" I submitted an update to iSpell House on Nov. 20. By Dec 09 the app made it thru review. Bundle version didn't stick and app remained buried under pile of crap-ware.

iDrill

Being overwhelmed Apple switched tactics by early December. Instead of "blanket rejecting" application pending for too long they started allowing applications referencing non-public APIs asking not to do it later on. iDrill Mí and iDrill Me was submitted for review on 10/21/09, got "blanket rejected" on 11/19/09, resubmitted on 11/20/09 and approved on 12/04/09. 44 days in review - not a record by 2009 standards. In-app purchases were tested by Apple on 12/02/09... hmm twice from two different devices.

iSpell House

New lesson "Things around the house" of English iSpell was released.

iCards

The rest of iCards Me (English and French) was released. Itunesconnect lists both as submitted on Jan 28, 2009, however iTunes properly lists release date as 02/04/2009.

iDrill

By Nov 2008, flash cards for the second lesson were ready. The second lesson is "All about me". iDrill Mich was the first "all about me" iDrill released together with iDrill Animals. Surprisingly enough German become worst selling language.

iSpell

Magiecom is a label to release foreign language training apps for mobile devices. It was started with an idea of a talking flash card app, but pretty fast the idea grew into a set of language training apps covering different aspects of foreign language learning. They are iSpell for spelling training, iDrill - a game to help memorize the words and their prononciation and iCards - flash cards application used for revision.

First to the market was iSpell that got submitted in Sept 2008 and got approved around Oct 20. 2008 for the following languages: Russian, English, French, Italian, Spanish, German.

The first lesson was "Animals".