GoldenJoe, the reason everyone kudos up hate posts on you is because you are insufferably full of yourself. You're invariably the first person to say "I told you so" when someone else can't figure something out, and yet you couldn't get your application signed (despite being here for nearly two years!), something that most of the developers managed to pull off just fine themselves. Now you're acting ridiculously smug about people complaining about the total lack of communication from RIM, as if you somehow benefit from other people having a bad experience and not knowing anything. The only conclusion I can come to is that you're upset at all these new developers flooding in because you're no longer that special-flower enfant terrible BlackBerry developer that you used to be, and you feel threatened. Well, either way you're screwed, because either the Playbook is going to fail and bring RIM down and you'll be out of a job, or the Playbook will be a big success and there will be ten times the developers here, washing away your unpleasant posts in a flood of actually useful information.
No one was expecting devices to appear in our hands months before the public had access to them, but most of us WERE expecting that we'd have them at the same time RIM shipped out units to reviewers, or at the very least by the time the press embargo had been lifted. There's literally nothing for the company to lose by doing that, but every day they don't supply developers with functioning tools is another day in the critical first weeks of release that the app world will be filled with broken applications that don't take advantage of any tablet-specific features. RIM should have known that the most critical feature of any mobile platform these days is whether it has solid developer support and a good base of applications, and the reviews are proving again and again that they've already made a mistake by not focusing on that more closely, but they're doing nothing to indicate that they care in the slightest about keeping around the developers they've wranged via this promotion. They can still salvage their position but the first step is to reach a branch out to the people who will help them! Do you honestly think that RIM has any chance at all in this iOS and Android-dominated marketplace without us?
And about the tutorials? Don't make me laugh! Do you not see how self-centered that statement is? You're certainly not the only person in the world who's ever developed a mobile application and you're FAR from the only source of tutorials. Isn't that the most wonderful thing about the Playbook? Anyone can develop an application using all the existing examples, strategies and libraries for AIR, without having to rely on GoldenJoe at all!
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