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Now I feel like an idiot for spending an hour and half writing it, lol.

by jammur 16y ago

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acangiano 16y ago
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.
foresterh 16y ago
The summarized points are good, but the article is great. I might read those points and think "hmm... not too bad", but read the article and think "hmm.. wtf!"
pkulak 16y ago
Yours was a lot more funny than the bullet points.
kgutteridge 16y ago
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 We recently developed this so speaking from some experience http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/28561 http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/28561 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 "CreateProcess error=87, Parameter is incorrect" which we eventually found was due to the classpath being too long for RAPC to handle However once complete the application it is something we are very proud of!
- zzzmarcus 16y ago
  Ha. Clicked the link and came to a full page error: Our apologies: It looks like you are using an unsupported Operating System. BlackBerry App World was designed to support the following: Windows Although you can browse BlackBerry App World with your current browser, some features may not be functional. To their credit they did let me continue.
  - kgutteridge 16y ago
    This ones even more amusing on the actual Blackberry App World http://failblog.org/2011/02/04/epic-fail-photos-blackberry-app-fail/ http://failblog.org/2011/02/04/epic-fail-photos-blackberry-a...
mcclung 16y ago
I enjoyed reading it however. I will now mercilessly mock RIM along with you.
donniefitz2 16y ago
No time wasted. And you're a good writer to boot. I thoroughly enjoyed the article.
GrandMasterBirt 16y ago
I feel that RIM is still missing the big picture. If RIM makes a phone/tablet that is 3x superior to the iPad and half the price, they'll still sell next to nothing. Why? The answer is quite simple. Their software is shit. Their developer relations is shit. They are competing not vs hardware, but vs hardware + software. They made great decisions too... lets ship the "Curve" model with such shit hardware and new software it was a downgrade from the previous top BB model (the one with side wheel). Old model = 3 seconds cold boot, new model = 3 minutes. The curve could not run any software that was remotely useful. It turned into a glorified email/phone device. The internet browsing sucked so bad I had no use for it. Not to mention that the hardware could barely handle the rendering. So with good decisions like that, can you really expect any more out of RIM?

Now I feel like an idiot for spending an hour and half writing it, lol.

by jammur 16y ago

Now I feel like an idiot for spending an hour and half writing it, lol.

deleted 16y ago

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acangiano 16y ago

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.

foresterh 16y ago

The summarized points are good, but the article is great. I might read those points and think "hmm... not too bad", but read the article and think "hmm.. wtf!"

pkulak 16y ago

Yours was a lot more funny than the bullet points.

kgutteridge 16y ago

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 We recently developed this so speaking from some experience http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/28561 http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/28561 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 "CreateProcess error=87, Parameter is incorrect" which we eventually found was due to the classpath being too long for RAPC to handle However once complete the application it is something we are very proud of!

zzzmarcus 16y ago
Ha. Clicked the link and came to a full page error: Our apologies: It looks like you are using an unsupported Operating System. BlackBerry App World was designed to support the following: Windows Although you can browse BlackBerry App World with your current browser, some features may not be functional. To their credit they did let me continue.
- kgutteridge 16y ago
  This ones even more amusing on the actual Blackberry App World http://failblog.org/2011/02/04/epic-fail-photos-blackberry-app-fail/ http://failblog.org/2011/02/04/epic-fail-photos-blackberry-a...

mcclung 16y ago

I enjoyed reading it however. I will now mercilessly mock RIM along with you.

donniefitz2 16y ago

No time wasted. And you're a good writer to boot. I thoroughly enjoyed the article.

GrandMasterBirt 16y ago

I feel that RIM is still missing the big picture. If RIM makes a phone/tablet that is 3x superior to the iPad and half the price, they'll still sell next to nothing. Why? The answer is quite simple. Their software is shit. Their developer relations is shit. They are competing not vs hardware, but vs hardware + software. They made great decisions too... lets ship the "Curve" model with such shit hardware and new software it was a downgrade from the previous top BB model (the one with side wheel). Old model = 3 seconds cold boot, new model = 3 minutes. The curve could not run any software that was remotely useful. It turned into a glorified email/phone device. The internet browsing sucked so bad I had no use for it. Not to mention that the hardware could barely handle the rendering. So with good decisions like that, can you really expect any more out of RIM?