This article was translated from Swedish using Google Translate.

After the financial crisis of 2008, the country has not recovered.

“We had two pillars that supported us. Nalle Wahlroos described it pretty well when he said that iPhone struck down Nokia and iPad hit the forest industry. “

So Steve Jobs struck Finland?

“Yes, Steve Jobs took our jobs,” said Alexander Stubb.

Nalle Wahlroos is chairman of Sampo Group, one of the largest insurance firms in Europe, based in Finland.

Alexander Stubb is the Prime Minister of Finland.

Nokia, now part of Microsoft, was certainly impacted heavily by the creation of the iPhone. As to the forest industry, interesting that the iPad has had such a major impact. I assume this is a reference to diminished paper usage.

From the Economic Times:

“Yes, Steve Jobs took our jobs, but this is beginning to change,” Stubb said.

“Our forestry is slowly but surely shifting from paper to bioenergy. Our IT industry is moving towards gaming, it’s not just about hardware like the Nokia mobiles.”

The main symbol for Finland’s economic difficulties was the fall of Nokia, the one-time world leader in mobile devices, which in April sold its loss-making handset business to US software giant Microsoft.