The mobile feed reader from Feedburner I mentioned the other day is uninstallable on an E61 if you use the JAD with the certificate attached, and usable if you go directly to the JAR. Sounds like a whole bunch of technical mumbo jumbo that you really shouldn’t have to care about right? It is. There’s a technical note from Nokia about the issue:
Signing MIDlets with a certificate for Java Verified applications should not be done for the above-mentioned devices because of the missing root certificate. If a MIDlet is signed, steps described in the Solution / Workaround section help you to install the MIDlet.
Odd that something called a Unified Testing Initiative would result in needing a signed version for some devices and an unsigned version for other devices. Or am I the only one that finds that odd? To say nothing about the fact that the security mechanism is attached to a metadata file that isn’t needed at all. At least there’s some conceptual consistency with the Symbian signed initiative in this case. They would both make good subjects for Dilbert cartoons, that’s a kind of consistency.
