Nokia has as many people for smartphone software as Apple does for all products

Re:Nokia has as many people for smartphone software as Apple... by sigzero on Friday February 04, 2011 @02:24PM (#2180749)

So? What are we supposed to take away from that? They have more numbers? That doesn't extrapolate to better products or better anything.

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Re:Nokia has as many people for smartphone software as Apple... by Isamu on Friday February 04, 2011 @02:40PM (#2180828)

I don't think this article is praise for Nokia, quite the opposite. They are saying that Apple is much more efficient.

More to the point, Nokia is losing profit compared to Apple:

so measuring efficiency as net income per employee the contrast is more stark.

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Re:Nokia has as many people for smartphone software as Apple... by RyanDScott on Friday February 04, 2011 @02:35PM (#2180796)

>That doesn't extrapolate to better products or better anything.

Agreed. So maybe we should be asking how Apple is growing faster than Nokia with fewer resources?

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Re:Nokia has as many people for smartphone software as Apple... by pavlov on Friday February 04, 2011 @02:56PM (#2180890)

Nokia suffers from the mythical man-month. They've only recently discovered that throwing 6,000 engineers at Symbian didn't make it better.

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Re:Nokia has as many people for smartphone software as Apple... by fdghjkh on Friday February 04, 2011 @04:08PM (#2181238)

But to be fair - they have now hired another 6000 HR managers to work out why not

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Re:Nokia has as many people for smartphone software as Apple... by xenophanes on Friday February 04, 2011 @04:17PM (#2181274)

That's not very fair :-)

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Re:Nokia has as many people for smartphone software as Apple... by fdghjkh on Friday February 04, 2011 @04:41PM (#2181369)

Don't worry they have set up a series of "Strategy Boutiques" (seriously!) to get over it

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