Symbian Signed: Death of a Bedroom coder

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Fri, 2007-05-18 14:40
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The cost of getting an application signed is huge, I recently priced it and for a single Bedroom coder it's just too much, effectively cutting me out of the market. Limiting the number of people who can develop for a platform is probably one of the worst things you can do for the ecosystem. I put this point of view to Symbian, and got a response. You can read all about it here.

My investigation here:
http://mind-flip.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/4/10/2868825.html

Symbian replies here:
http://mind-flip.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/5/9/2937982.html

Fri, 2007-05-18 16:07
Joined: 2005-11-20
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Re: Symbian Signed: Death of a Bedroom coder
My personal conclusion: The "big boys", the ones in power right now, i.e. the network operators, are not worried too much by some dead bedroom coders. There were not that many to begin with, as Symbian is quite hard to program for if you are lone coder in a bedroom.

Whether they should worry is another and quite complicated question.

René Brunner

Mon, 2007-08-13 06:46
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Re: Symbian Signed: Death of a Bedroom coder

I agree that the price of signing is too high.

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