They made some pretty bad decisions during their decline. As a developer, it became infuriating how often the signing server was down. You can't push unsigned c

They made some pretty bad decisions during their decline. As a developer, it became infuriating how often the signing server was down. You can't push unsigned code to a Blackberry hardware device and the software simulator was not very good at replicating the actual behavior of code on the actual hardware. It was often broken at random for a couple of days but that stretched over a week sometimes. Even correcting a small typo like 'SEX Compliance' that should have been 'SEC Compliance' could take a week because the size of a change didn't matter, everything sent to the device had to be signed by RIM's signing server. This was at a time they were pleading for developers to not abandon the platform for Apple and Android, both of which had much simpler development on testing cycles for their hardware, even if publishing to the actual store could be a chore.