Symbian Signing Sucks
Turtle night
Originally uploaded by jaremfan.
I wish I was in dream world like this turtle and fish here, but I’m not. Instead, I just got another negative result on yet another round of symbian signing, and it’s really starting to leave a bad taste in my mouth.
The project’s dragged so long, when it’s finally over, I never ever want to hear any part about it. I don’t really care if the customers are happy, sad, or indifferent - I just want it over and done with.
I don’t even want to hear the part that I did a good job, and I don’t care right now whether I did a good job or not. I never want to go through this exercise ever again.
I hate programming on mobile devices - for the plain fact that mobile devices are the most overly-regulated, over-priced, hyped about, underpowered digital convergent things in the world.
We only end up using 10% of what ends up in a mobile device, and 9% goes to making phone calls.
Unfortunately, that piece of software that I’m supposed to help get out of the door is all about that - making calls - except it does it in some special way that gets in the way of some things that symbian makes difficult to get past.
It’s so difficult that you need to go through 5 rounds of signing to discover that you screwed up in singly small areas, one round at a time.
Each round of signing equals the cost of the largest ipod. And payment has become complicated - why pay for so many rounds? And fingerpointing ensues - who foots the bill this time round?
I’m upset and tired and frustrated and I hate Symbian.
Categorized as life/work