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You did well to pull out early if you found this part of the process painful, unfortunately end to end it feels like death by a thousand paper cuts. Theres nothing glaring wrong through out but lots of annoyances which really add up, when compared to iOS or Android development

We recently developed this so speaking from some experience http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/28561

The bb version took far far longer than the equivalent iOS, simply because of other nonsense such as the pain in the signing process (isthesigningserverdown.com the fact it exists tells you all you need to know). Random exceptions being thrown that have no useful meaning and of course the joy of RAPC throwing errors such as "CreateProcess error=87, Parameter is incorrect" which we eventually found was due to the classpath being too long for RAPC to handle

However once complete the application it is something we are very proud of!

Ha. Clicked the link and came to a full page error:

Our apologies:

It looks like you are using an unsupported Operating System. BlackBerry App World was designed to support the following:

Windows

Although you can browse BlackBerry App World with your current browser, some features may not be functional.

To their credit they did let me continue.

This ones even more amusing on the actual Blackberry App World

http://failblog.org/2011/02/04/epic-fail-photos-blackberry-a...

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