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David, you forgot to include Symbian signing for Nokia and Samsung handsets. This usually runs around $20 per signing. That said, because of some of the thing
by imaginator 16y ago
David, you forgot to include Symbian signing for Nokia and Samsung handsets. This usually runs around $20 per signing.
That said, because of some of the things we do with wifi scanning on the buddycloud client, we have to sign four different versions: one for each varient of S60 with different ways of handling wifi. So figure on each code fix costing $80.
We've also found the approval process SLOW. We tried to use Symbian.org's Horizon free signing system but they always loose the order and it ends up taking them about a month to get the 4 binaries signed. We've gone through this a couple of times and it's never improved.
Then it takes Ovi at least two weeks to get the binary into the market and through their content approval process.
It's all total effing built-by-a-committee bullshit.
My money is on Android's zero bullshit approach winning out over Nokia's sloth and Steve's ego.