Sometimes the economies of scale at a corporation reach such unmanageable size and scope that the entire thing just spins on down the road running on its ambient steam. Some people will notice, some will notice AND care, but mostly the fiefdoms of middle managers will be threatened and so nothing of the troubles that accost a business process in these times of overwhelming growth and underwhelming management will actually get fed into a business process review cycle.
In order to actually test an application on an iphone, you have to get yourself authorized with a PKI certificate. While most of the web pages on apple sites are cross-linked and hyper-referenced every which way, there is one place on the site that does not get equal treatment in this regard. For some reason, everytime the "iphone developer portal" is referenced, it is not as a link. This link is critical in accompishing the task of getting yourself and your device provisioned for developing software, as the uncracked OS will not allow unsigned apps to execute.
This of course makes it a very nice paperweight, from a development point of view.
All of the following links were required to just figure out what I was actually supposed to be doing - let alone the inability to actually do it. Just for the record I am an early adopter and was on the ADC site before they were even ready I think. There were issues with my account in April. I wonder if there are more flavors of growth still to be found.
Here and Here and Here and Here is finally enough information to figure out that Apple appears to be missing the mark on this entire process.
I finally gave up and sent a request to developer technical support asking why the "program portal" is so necessary and yet it is not inserted as a link everywhere it is mentioned.
This goes with the idea of keeping an NDA on everyone who got the SDK. They actually think they can protect themselves from R.I.M. engineering staff! I have been in the R&D labs in ottowa, and Apple should listen to me on this : the only way you will stay ahead of RIM is spending time and money innovating, not trying to impede them. You spend energy trying to slow them down and all you do is waste energy better spent improving existing art and generating new science.
Silly Monkeys.
In order to actually test an application on an iphone, you have to get yourself authorized with a PKI certificate. While most of the web pages on apple sites are cross-linked and hyper-referenced every which way, there is one place on the site that does not get equal treatment in this regard. For some reason, everytime the "iphone developer portal" is referenced, it is not as a link. This link is critical in accompishing the task of getting yourself and your device provisioned for developing software, as the uncracked OS will not allow unsigned apps to execute.
This of course makes it a very nice paperweight, from a development point of view.
All of the following links were required to just figure out what I was actually supposed to be doing - let alone the inability to actually do it. Just for the record I am an early adopter and was on the ADC site before they were even ready I think. There were issues with my account in April. I wonder if there are more flavors of growth still to be found.
Here and Here and Here and Here is finally enough information to figure out that Apple appears to be missing the mark on this entire process.
I finally gave up and sent a request to developer technical support asking why the "program portal" is so necessary and yet it is not inserted as a link everywhere it is mentioned.
This goes with the idea of keeping an NDA on everyone who got the SDK. They actually think they can protect themselves from R.I.M. engineering staff! I have been in the R&D labs in ottowa, and Apple should listen to me on this : the only way you will stay ahead of RIM is spending time and money innovating, not trying to impede them. You spend energy trying to slow them down and all you do is waste energy better spent improving existing art and generating new science.
Silly Monkeys.
