Becoming a sprint developer

it's free - and you get what you paid for...

What I mean is you pay nothing to sign up on the developer site, and you get almost nothing in return where the Instinct is involved.  Little documentation, even less support.  They haven't even come out with Instinct HD documents or supported it in the toolkit.

It was a bad idea to come out with a phone that used a Sprint-specific non-standard Java implementation.  It was a worse idea to come out with that at the same time that Android, iPhone and WinMo devices were flourishing.  Who wants to develop for a proprietary device with bugs, minimal documentation and nearly non-existent support when those other choices have tons of documentation, tons of support, and tons of customers?  Mostly just people who bought one for whatever reason and wanted it to do things it couldn't; not commercial developers.