<story><title>You win, RIM (An open letter to RIM&apos;s developer relations)</title><url>http://blog.jamiemurai.com/2011/02/you-win-rim/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jammur</author><text>Now I feel like an idiot for spending an hour and half writing it, lol.</text></item><item><author>btipling</author><text>The complaints are:&lt;p&gt;$200 price to develop with 10 app limit.&lt;p&gt;Multiple registration forms.&lt;p&gt;Requiring multiple downloads.&lt;p&gt;Requiring to purchase vmware fusion.&lt;p&gt;Installer that just copies an iso.&lt;p&gt;Having to password protect the simulator.&lt;p&gt;Bad documentation on how to load an app on the simulator.&lt;p&gt;The comparative ease with which you can do these things with android and ios.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kgutteridge</author><text>You did well to pull out early if you found this part of the process painful, unfortunately end to end it feels like death by a thousand paper cuts. Theres nothing glaring wrong through out but lots of annoyances which really add up, when compared to iOS or Android development&lt;p&gt;We recently developed this so speaking from some experience
&lt;a href=&quot;http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/28561&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/28561&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The bb version took far far longer than the equivalent iOS,  simply because of other nonsense such as the pain in the signing process (isthesigningserverdown.com the fact it exists tells you all you need to know). Random exceptions being thrown that have no useful meaning and of course the joy of RAPC throwing errors such as &quot;CreateProcess error=87, Parameter is incorrect&quot; which we eventually found was due to the classpath being too long for RAPC to handle&lt;p&gt;However once complete the application it is something we are very proud of!</text></comment>
<story><title>You win, RIM (An open letter to RIM&apos;s developer relations)</title><url>http://blog.jamiemurai.com/2011/02/you-win-rim/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jammur</author><text>Now I feel like an idiot for spending an hour and half writing it, lol.</text></item><item><author>btipling</author><text>The complaints are:&lt;p&gt;$200 price to develop with 10 app limit.&lt;p&gt;Multiple registration forms.&lt;p&gt;Requiring multiple downloads.&lt;p&gt;Requiring to purchase vmware fusion.&lt;p&gt;Installer that just copies an iso.&lt;p&gt;Having to password protect the simulator.&lt;p&gt;Bad documentation on how to load an app on the simulator.&lt;p&gt;The comparative ease with which you can do these things with android and ios.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acangiano</author><text>Articles can often be summarized in a few lines which make them seem trivial. What really counts for me is why those points mentioned above are worth complaining about.</text></comment>