Great book, I read it all in the weekend, it brings lots of memories.
Kind of hurts to see how Nokia went down.
Before becoming a Nokia fan, I was a hobbiest developer fan of Qt from Trolltech.
Many people got worried, including me, when Nokia bought Trolltech, we thought that all
the focus would go to Nokia mobile, and the Desktop development, Android and iOS ports
would be stalled.
Then when the Qt Ambassador program was launched, I applied in that same week,
so probably I was one of the first Nokia Qt Ambassadors
Eventually we received a package from Nokia with stickers, t-shirt and a Nokia C7 smartphone.
My first smarphone !!! I got sold out to Nokia
For the next 2 or 3 years I didnt had to buy any phones, I would just got them from Nokia,
trought development contests or trought the Qt Ambassadors program. I also got a nokia X7, a
Nokia N950 and eventually I also got a devices from Blackberry, a BB10 prototipe
wich I had to return later, and later came a BB10 developer red edition.
We even got invitations for secret development contests for Meego plataform.
I learned later that Elop said internally that all Qt Desktop should be
deprecated, the focus should be the mobile. iirc I got that from a post from Quim Gil
from Nokia.
Back then I did make some money selling apps in Ovi store, not much,
but much more then I make today in Android wich is close to nothing.
Being a Nokia Qt Ambassador was a great ride. When nokia went with Microsoft, that was really bad.
Some good things happen thought, Jolla was created, Qt got sold and Qt development seemed to
get back on track.
Now Nokia hopefully as learned with past mistakes, and for sure I would like to see them partnering with Jolla,
not sure its gonna happen but that would be handsome.