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Symbian used have something like this called Symbian Signed. It was a complete pain in the arse and probably one reason why hobbyists barely ever wrote programs
by secondcoming 5y ago
Symbian used have something like this called Symbian Signed. It was a complete pain in the arse and probably one reason why hobbyists barely ever wrote programs for it.
- quotemstr 5y agoSymbian also charged developers high fees to access certain special APIs, doubly ensuring the death of their platform.
- secondcoming 5y agoYes and some API required permission from the phone manufacturers. However, it stopped shitty apps from being able to slurp all your contacts, etc.
- Mountain_Skies 5y agoRIM used to do the same thing for Blackberry development. It never worked very well and the signing server was often offline. After one of their rounds of layoffs, it was offline for over a week, perhaps two weeks (it's been a while). I'm not sure if they laid off the person responsible for that server and it happened to go down or if they knocked it offline as a parting gift. Either way, we couldn't make even spelling corrections in our apps until it came back up. Absolutely terrible process.