Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)

Re:Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was ... by Locke1689 on Monday August 02, 2010 @11:18PM (#1569989)

Um, not to get all defensive, but we at STB are making quite a bit of money. It's probably over a million a quarter per developer. I don't know many people who can say that. ;)

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Re:Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was ... by megablast on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @02:14AM (#1570304)

Are you only including developers, or all the people who work on a product? I imagine that MS has a rather large team of non-developers working on products as well.

You want to be careful with that metric. You know the cleaners don't make much money, why not fire them?

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Re:Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was ... by Locke1689 on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @06:28AM (#1570707)

I did actually mean all the people that work in development on the product. That is, in MS terms, all SDE, SDET, and PMs. I happen to know this figure is accurate for Windows (over a million per developer), although that doesn't include sales/marketing, administrative costs, etc. As for the cleaners comment, I don't really get your point.

Anyway, my statistic wasn't really meant to be taken that seriously, just proof that server is actually making money over here.

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Re:Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was ... by pragmatic on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @12:43AM (#1570153)

Server and Tools Business?

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Re:Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was ... by Locke1689 on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @06:30AM (#1570711)

Yes.

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