Happens. It happens that your company, yours in the sense that you work for it, market leader in the sector, makes a choice that involves the end of the project you are working on and a whole crowd of researchers, engineers, previously engaged in that project, find themselves without a job perspective. The company, which does not do charity, therefore decides to close that business unit. What do they do? Do they take to the streets against cynical and cheating fate, against the insensitivity of the company which does not want to take responsibility for its mistakes and therefore does not keep them uselessly, even at the cost of jeopardizing the healthy and productive branches of the company? Are they blocking railways and motorways, are they asking for early retirement despite having an average age of 37? Do they leave the country and return to their respective places of origin, at least those who can? No, they get organized and pool their skills, create a startup, also with the help of the same company, and repropose themselves, reorienting themselves to the market, correcting errors, recovering what can be saved.
This is what really happened in the country of the State that assists you from the cradle to the grave, but without exaggeration. It's about the Finland and the company in question is the Nokia, until a few years ago the undisputed leader of the mobile phone market.
Before the alliance with ecosystem, Nokia had planned to tackle the difficult post-Symbian investing in the development of MeeGo, an open source operating system based on Linux which, however, had led to the creation of a single device equipped with this software (Nokia N9). The Finnish company probably already had in mind to move on a single front when it made agreements with Microsoft and therefore waited for the MeeGo project to be finalized to decide which outlets it should have. So, ad October 2011, while Nokia presented a world premiere of the its first Windows-based mobile phone, Antti Saarnio, Jussi Hurmola, Sami Pienimäki, Stefano Mosconi and Marc Dillon founded Jolla to carry on the MeeGo project, too important and too good to be abandoned. With them are many talents who have participated in the development of the operating system and other members of the community born around this latest open-source initiative.
Thanks to the programNokia's bridge project“, designed by the Finnish company to allow ex-employees to start new businesses on their own, relations between Jolla and Nokia are still more than cordial. The experience gained in the headquarters in Espoo, Finland, will allow Jolla to have powerful development tools in hand, as well as a high credibility both with future hardware suppliers and with distributors and end customers.
In this regard, Jolla has already mentioned the name of a first distributor of mobile terminals. It is the most important reality of the sector in China, that is D.Phone. Jolla has signed a strategic agreement in a country that represents the largest smartphone market in the world and is still expanding. In short, Jolla is serious and the possibility that between iPhone, Android and Windows Phone there is also room for the successor of the N9, is increasingly concrete.
