On Feb 11, 1:27 pm, Moandji Ezana <[email protected]> wrote: > http://gizmodo.com/#!5757962/over-a-thousand-nokia-employees-reported... > > "According to the report, there are some 3000 total employees at Nokia's > Tampere office, with roughly 1500 of them working on Symbian. Roughly > another thousand work on Symbian at the Oulu office." > > I imagine creating, managing and marketing a mobile OS is hard, but having > 2500 people working on it feels wrong.
I just saw a great tweet on this: "Nokia had 2500(!) people working on Symbian? Really? What were they doing all day?" http://twitter.com/#!/jfahrenkrug/status/36173159988199424 > Any idea how many people work on iOS or Android (I know the Android team - > Romain Guy and Chet Haase, at least - doesn't want to say). It's unlikely that either Apple or Google would disclose such numbers, as it would be be useful for their competition. Still both have to reveal total headcount in regulatory filings. For example, Apple disclosed that it had 46,000 FTE's in 2010 - http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/10/27/apple-margins-idUSN2726363520101027 - though the overwhelming majority are retail store employees, so this tells us nothing about engineering staffing levels. Moreover, many engineers work on both Mac OS X and iOS, given the close relationship between the two, so it's impossible to determine exactly how many people work on iOS. Apple is widely believed to keep its engineering headcount low, and pushes fewer people to do more week than you might expect (or desire). Anecdotally, I've learned not to file ADC support issues in the first part of the year (I almost said "Spring"... apologies to the Southern Hemisphere), because in 2008, those engineers were pulled off customer support and pressed into emergency duty on iPhone OS 2.0 and get it out the door. Do I think that iOS and Android have fewer than 2,500 people working on each of them? Yes, I do. Does that make Symbian seem like more of a joke than it did this time yesterday? Oh, my yes. --Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
