That's all folks

As iSpell Casa came back from review I submitted updates adding in-app purchases to the rest iSpell House applications (but the most successful Russian) on Dec 8th. By December Apple have been approving apps without much testing (no in-app purchase receipts were logged on the server), so those three made thru review in exactly a week.

Also on Dec 8th I pretty much gave up and released all iCards Animals that I could release (with exception of English that got wrong bundle id). I am pretty much fed up with Apple. Until Apple makes releasing updates rewarding this is it, regardless that I have 5 language apps in the pipeline and updates for couple dozen apps already released. Ain't worth my time.

Welcome Android.

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.

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 Casa

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

iSpell Mé

New lesson "All about me" of Spanish iSpell was released.

iCards

Finally iCards are ready for sale. First to be released is "All about Me" in Spanish and German. Itunesconnect lists both as submitted on Jan 23, 2009, however iTunes properly lists release date as 01/28/2009.

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".