Comments on: Symbian Signed and Software Bug Fix

By: turnabull

turnabull — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:24:33 +0000

Yes, for all telephone users in their normal life,
the best thing is that they can use devices without
the fear of viruses. So, at the moment with Symbian C++
applications is that application development is controlled
and canditate application will be “checked” by
the official authority.

Let’s see what is going to happen with other development areas like J2ME.

By: Antony’s Mobile Blog » Blog Archive » Latest Update on Screenshot for Nokia E61/E62

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:24:06 +0000

[…] I have fixed the problem and tested on E61. You can expect to see the new release within 2 - 3 weeks. Why does it take so long to release the fix? You many know it is because of Symbian Signed program. Read also my post about Symbian Signed and Software Bug Fix. […]

By: Antony Pranata

Antony Pranata — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:03:10 +0000

@turnabull: I fully agree with you. It seems phone manufactures really want to have big and best software companies to develop for this platform.

It is still debatable though whether this is the right decision or not.

By: turnabull

turnabull — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:13:42 +0000

Well, at the moment it seems to me that Symbian Signed
concept is some kind of way to control the software business
industry from phone manufacturer’s point of view.
It seems to me that phone manufacturers want to select
the best sw companies on their own business purposes.

Just remember what happened when MS released sw tools
for every one who wanted to start commercial business
with their own brains -> a lot of sw industry was founded.

So, my opinion is that phone manufacturers want to
take their own piece as money from future mobile sw business
developers and companies.

By: Antony Pranata

Antony Pranata — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:29:27 +0000

Self signed application is not affected at all.
The issue that I raised here is only for Symbian Signed program.

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:21:42 +0000

Ciao

what about self signing your application?

Alessandro

By: Creating Carbide C++

Creating Carbide C++ — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:09:16 +0000

Platform Security — Certificate manager mockup

PlatSec is a nice platform feature, but a pain for developers. Although we can’t make the pain go away, we set out to draft a plan for how we could ease the pain at least a little bit.

By: Creating Carbide C++

Creating Carbide C++ — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:39:53 +0000

More PlatSec stuff: SW patches & Symbian Signed

Antony Pranata raises a good point about the requirement to re-certify an app via Symbian Signed if a bug fix is applied. Apparently, the Freeware process takes quite a while (although paying for an update speeds it up considerably, from 3 weeks to 24h…

By: Tommi's S60 applications blog

Tommi's S60 applications blog — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:57:39 +0000

How to release bug fixes, if the app is Symbian Signed?

Sirul asked me to comment the problem published on Antony’s Mobile Blog: Symbian Signed and Software Bug Fix. In short, the problem is this. Some applications require Symbian Signed service, since they use the “protected” functions of the device….