RIM 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 layof

RIM 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.