Where are the Symbian Evangelists?

My favorite Symbian resource site is NewLC.It's not even officially run by Symbian. Pity.

Microsoft didn't own the desktop just by bullying others. In the early days, people bought Windows simply because there are so many useful applications available.

How did Microsoft get so lucky? They were not. Like Windows itself, they learned something from Apple, and became a master of it.

Apple created this special breed of people called Evangelists. The most famous one was Guy Kawasaki. These are super smart programmers who also has a knack for mesmerizing other programmers/hackers (or people skills as they say it in B-school).

Microsoft built teams of evangelists for each product line. If you are interested in learning how it worked, here's a very interesting book.

I wish Symbian will become more interested in evangelizing than simply making those learn-to-write-Symbian-code-in-20-days courses.

It's as if they somehow find a positive correlation between:

a) World-class software that make their OS succeed; and
b) Programmers who attend their courses because they work for companies that are willing to pay GBP6,000 plus travel costs.