"and in any case they were not interested in small devs (getting an account for their joke of a store was a byzantine process, and expensive too iirc)" I had t

"and in any case they were not interested in small devs (getting an account for their joke of a store was a byzantine process, and expensive too iirc)" I had the exact same experience with RIM/Blackberry 957-era... Great device, completely clueless company regarding an independent software ecosystem. Say what you will about Apple, but they truly knocked down walls and opened the mobile floodgates to independent developers.