Developers have been plagued by Nokia’s insane signing requirements for quite some time. As most S60 developers are small companies, they had no option but to suck up – but it looks like large J2ME houses had none of it.
The Developing on S60 blog contains the following statement:
It has been a huge source of complaints throughout the Internet and Ovi related discussion boards that Java application developers are forced to do testing via Java Verified. To use Java Verified before submitting the application to Ovi Store is only a recommendation for developers. If developers have other means to ensure the quality on different Nokia handsets then it’s totally acceptable to not to use it. Developers are however required to sign their content using content signing (Verisign or Thawte).
This means one thing: large companies went up to Nokia and told them to suck it up or look elsewhere for their content.
Shows nicely where Nokia’s priorities are…
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The signing isn’t relieved on Java content either, the post was just my remark that Ovi Store doesn’t really force Java Verified. Ovi Store material has been confusing on that front so I wanted to clarify it. To my knowledge there hasn’t been any big j2me houses complaining that to Nokia but it has been really those small independent developers complaining that in the internet posts. It seems that for them Java Verified is too costly.
I’m not familiar with Symbian Signed so cannot comment on that.
Hi Aleksi,
thank you so much for talking back!
All the best
Tam Hanna